Mar 13, 2023
Sting of Death (1966)
"Horrible. That man died a violent death, I can't understand it."
"You could understand it, Doctor, if you'd just listen to me!"
"We have listened to you, now, uh, let's not go into all that."
#sting of death#william grefé#1966#horror film#creature feature#american cinema#william kerwin#joe morrison#valerie hawkins#john vella#jack nagle#sandy lee kane#deanna lund#lois etelman#blanche devereaux#doug hobart#judy lee#robert stanton#al jacobs#lon e. norman#my first taste of Bill Grefé‚ Florida's answer to Steven Spielberg (y'know‚ if Spielberg had just made monster movies on miniscule budgets)#this is a deep dive regional indie schlocker of the silliest kind; truthfully it's pretty bad filmmaking‚ but not un fun#it is at least gaudy and colourful (and exists in a visibly better quality than many of Grefé's other films; this may have been my first#taste‚ but I've watched several more between viewing and writing these tags). the plot is pure nonsense about a jellyfish man or a#man jellyfish (science run amuck etc etc). it's all quite confusing but there's small joys to be found in our jelly headed villain padding#around quietly just a couple of yards from a pool party of oblivious teens who SOMEHOW just don't notice him; or how Prof Father Figure has#a highly visible scab on his forehead‚ the shape and size of which varies from scene to scene and can be used to work out the order#that the film was made in. oh and there's a Neil Sedaka jellyfish themed pop song! which gets hyped up a lot! and gratuitous scenes#of dancing bikini girls whooping and laughing (again‚ as a jellyfish man lurks within arm's length). sup professional acting‚ woeful fx and#a general lack of anything approaching a cinematic vision.. but it's kind of fun in a very very very dumb way