Comments on: The Giant Gila Monster (1959)

By: notmrjohn

notmrjohn — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:57:02 +0000

Giant Gila Monster is the type specimen for the genre “Teenagers in Hot Rods Save the World.”

By: Guts3d

Guts3d — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:24:36 +0000

Please tell me that they will have a different song! The %$#@! “Mushroom Song” is worse than the theme from “Puma Man”.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:12:03 +0000

And be careful with that nitroglycerin

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:51:52 +0000

How cool! Just please be careful when the giant Gila Monster is on set. (Are your cars insured?)

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:24:36 +0000

They are remakeing this movie right now in Franklin Indiana… I have been bringing my Dad’s and my Old show cars for extras in it… Too Cool… I remember seeing this movie when I was little as a repeat on TV with my Dad. My Dad remembers seeing it as a kid.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:22:35 +0000

@Btara:

Why, your welcome sir!

My main goal of this site is to be more of an electronic archive for these kinds of movies so they won’t get lost in the Internet foam over time. Glad this helped you out.

By: Btara Ktahn

Btara Ktahn — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:20:18 +0000

Thanks for posting the lyrics to the songs, Dennis! I was looking for the ones to “My Baby She Rocks” because the stupid thing was in my head when I woke up this morning (and rather than plugging my MST3K DVD, I thought that I’d try googling them, instead).

What I found most disturbing about The Mushroom Song isn’t the fact that they decided to use it twice in the movie… It’s the fact that the second time it’s used, it’s at the teen dance… and THE TEENS ENJOYED IT! On what planet would that song have ‘rocked the socks’ off of the cool kids?!

But it doesn’t matter. Maybe it was just easier to entertain kids in the ’50s, what with McCarthyism and the threat of total nuclear (or “nucular,” if you go by the martian in Santa Claus Conquers The Martians) annihilation.

By: guts3d

guts3d — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:03:11 +0000

Well, I have nothing to fear, as I can’t stand any of the songs in this film! And I didn’t even need to “take a knee” to decide that!

By: courtland

courtland — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:25:33 +0000

I LOVE ” my baby, she rocks “…watching it on the NEW Elvira MOVIE MACABRE right now. But it doesn’t matter if you or I like the ” laugh, children,laugh ” song…because you will die if you play it near a giant lizard….they don’t seem to like it…they will bust down your model wood home to stop you!!! You have been worned!

By: guts3d

guts3d — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:22:14 +0000

The “Laugh, Children, Laugh” song sticks in ones head for a few weeks as well.