A decade after collecting a golden statuette for Cool Hand Luke, George Kennedy was battling backwoods psychos, Nazi torture ships, lawnmower killers and mutant cats, but Demonwarp trumps the lot, pitting the Oscar winner against a Sasquatch from outer space. Not only can this mechanically-minded monster sabotage a truck at a moments notice, hes also a dab hand at disabling Kennedys booby traps as well as sneaking up on his prey in broad daylight, but hell still chase anyone who calls him a Woolly bast**d. In fact, he spends so much time clomping around in broad daylight, he begins to take on an unfortunate resemblance to Robot Monster (1953), which isnt helped when he returns to his spaceship. You see, hes one of a number of werewolf-zombie hybrids living in a plastic ship operated by a cackling priest and his master, a claw-handed archangel that eats the hearts of naked starlets. Didnt see that coming, did you?
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
