The first must-see film of the year.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

While this movies make very little sense, it's not really that bad.So a giant sparkler crashes into a man and his son.The man dies and his son becomes a giant werewolf with really bad teeth.If you are a fan of Howard Stern, you will quickly notice that the "monster" sounds like a cross between Gary The Retard and JD.If you are not a Stern fan, you probably won't understand a thing it says.But anyway, I was lead to believe this movie was sci-fi/horror/western and it's really none of those.It's a movie about relationships with no other genre elements.I will never understand why old movies with the word "teenager" in the title never actually have any teenagers in the movie.That aside, this movie isn't too bad.Give it a shot.

TEENAGE MONSTER is a textbook examination of Teenage Angst: our hero, Charlie, is dealing with feelings of inadequacy, so he lashes out at Society. Because his testosterone levels have been upped considerably by an errant meteor, this results in several gruesome deaths. When he first discovers the joys of male/female relationships, his naïve notions of Love are put to the ultimate test by a young temptress; this, too, results in mayhem. All of this is typical teenage behavior. Ask Whit Bissell. TEENAGE MONSTER doesn't waste any time whatsoever getting down to business: the meteor comes crashing to Earth during the prologue, effectively killing two birds with one stone (Charlie is transformed and his dad killed so horribly that the filmmakers didn't have the intestinal fortitude to show it). Jack Pierce takes over at this point, and we gets lots of good close ups of The Monster (a huge plus for ANY Fright Film). The pace never slackens. Not disappointing.

Another hideously cheap piece of drive-in trash, this is one of those movies where no care was taken in to establish any sort of continuity or character. At one point, a female character comes in and asks another what they are writing. My future, she replies. I retorted to that statement, hope you're not planning a future in acting! There is little explanation given as to why a teenage boy has suddenly ended up looking like a caveman. Going around attacking people for no reason yet acting childlike when among the women who seem to gather around him to protect him from harm.Looking like a badly filmed early TV show, this is so hideously bad I can't even imagine it being rushed into production and even released. How anybody could even sit through this and think it was release worthy is beyond me. The monster grumbles in gibberish, and the other characters refer to him as if it's normal for an old western town have such a creature roaming around. Amateurish acting so laughably bad, this is difficult to get through for even those of us who can find something good in a bad movie. If you think that Ed Wood made bad movies, think again at this collection of three teenage movies packaged together under one DVD. At least my copy was cheap but as they say, you get what you pay for.

In June of 1880, the Cannon family is mining for gold. A meteor explodes nearby, killing the father, Jim (McCullough), and injuring his young son, Charles (Parker). Now a widow, Ruth Cannon (Gwynne) vows to continue working the mine. Seven years later, Charles (now played by Gilbert Perkins) is nearly an adult, but has mutated into a terrifying wildman. Ruth controls him most of the time, but occasionally he leaves the mine to kill people and livestock. When they finally strike it rich, the secret becomes even harder to keep."Teenage Monster" is one of a number of films of the 1950s and 1960s that combined the classic western with the horror genre. Make-up artist Jack P. Pierce (better known for work for Universal on such films as "Frankenstein" (1931) and its sequels) provided the make-up for the grown-up Charles. Okay, so the budget was low and the cast wasn't particularly good. I try to make allowances for such factors and give a lot of leeway to films of this vintage. Unfortunately, this one has little to commend it. Viewers who survived films like "Billy the Kid versus Dracula" (1966) with their sanity intact might want to check this one out. Most others should not subject their VCRs to the taint.