Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

azathothpwiggins Test animals are shot into space, returning to crash-land just off the coast of Africa. Oh no! Native people are being attacked by some unknown creatures! Giant, buzzy bugs are on the move, sending humans and animals alike, fleeing in all directions! This occurs in the jungle of the title. Dr. Quent Brady (Jim Davis) finds out about the chaos, and sets out for the continent. He's convinced that r-a-d-i-a-t-i-o-n is to blame. A safari is organized, and Brady and company wait before beginning their arduous trek. Meanwhile, others perish needlessly. After three weeks (!), the safari finally gets underway. This is one long, drawn out safari! These people are walking 400 miles! Thankfully, tons of wild animal stock footage and Brady's dull narration stand in for any real excitement! Lots more walking takes place. Enough walking to make even the viewer's feet hurt! Where are those big bugs when we need them? The safari plods on, burning up valuable film time. Various hardships strike, having nothing to do w/ monsters. Still more walking. An outpost is reached. Brady enjoys an organ recital in the bush. On and on it goes. By the time the group arrives at their destination, it hardly matters. MONSTER FROM GREEN HELL is an endurance test, much like holding hot coals in your hand. A must for the movie masochist! The pain is exquisite! EXTRA POINTS: For the cheeeze-tastic, jumbo-sized, mutated wasps. Their fleeting appearances are the only joy to be found here...

MartinHafer When this crappy film begins, you see a lot of stock footage of V-2 rocket tests. Supposedly these rockets are taking animals into the stratosphere to see what radiation there does to them. However, they loose track of one ship and where it lands, no one knows. Soon there are reports of monsters in a region of Central Africa known as 'Green Hell'--and instead of sending in troops, just two scientists are sent in to investigate. After a long series of adventures, they meet up with the evil killer wasps and, inexplicably, the long arm of God kills these creatures!!Much of this film consists of stock footage clumsily inserted into the picture. Much of it grainy and the overall effect is lousy. But what's worse is that the film is incredibly dull...which you'd never expect from a monster film. Cheap and silly---and get a load of those stop-motion wasps!!

dougdoepke Scientists encounter mutant insect monsters in Africa, and even a can of Raid won't do.This is genuine drive-in sci-fi, cheezy 50's style. Yes indeed, don't be fooled. Despite abundant use of stock footage, the production never leaves beautiful downtown Griffith Park, with a brief stopover at Bronson Canyon cave. Must have cost all of a dollar eighty, or about what they spent on special effects. Still, that would be okay if results were at least worth a few laughs. No such luck here. The results are boring, with lots of talking, walking, and padding. Heck, leading lady Turner even looks like she swallowed a lemon. Worse, for us guys, she doesn't even own a sweater. And that's to say nothing of leading man Davis, who acts like his mind is also somewhere else, like maybe strangling his agent. Oh well, at least I didn't have to ask for my money back. Too bad this wasn't at the drive-in. Then I could have at least had a beer to make the pill go down.

estabansmythe Growing up in Los Angeles in the late '50s & early '60s, we had "The Million Dollar Movie" on KHJ-channel 9. The MMM ran every night as well as twice on Saturdays and Sundays, giving the viewer nine opportunities over the course of the week to see whatever film was being shown.When the MMM showed "The Monster From Green Hell," my cronies and I were seven or eight years old. We saw "The Monster From Green Hell" all nine times!!! Up to that point in our lives, it was perhaps the greatest thing ever put on celluloid.Heck, giant wasps had over-run Africa and only Jim Davis, who starred as the hero ambulance driver in "Rescue 8" at the time could save mankind. Although I've read that the special effects were really cheap, I thought they might as well have come directly from George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic. Those huge, giant wasps sure looked real to us! I recall Viewing #8, Sunday afternoon, for you. A buddy and I were at my house, getting ready to watch it in our Living Room when my dad came in, plopped down into his favorite comfy chair and told us he was going to watch something else, something other than ... "The Monster From Green Hell." How could this be? Sacriledge was being committed right before our young eyes! Fortunately, I knew my dad's Sunday afternoon habits, and Habit #1 was sawing logs within five minutes of landing in his afore-mentioned comfy chair. As luck would have it, sure enough, he was off in Dreamland within only a couple minutes.Discovering this, my buddy and I scooted up as close to the TV as humanly possible and turned the sound down so we could barely hear it.It was in this manner that we caught virtually all of "The Monster From Green Hell" for the eighth straight showing on "Million Dollar Movie." Well, almost all of it.Within a minute or two of its conclusion, the mighty beast stirred. Uh oh, my dad had awakened. With a surge of sudden awesome, lightning-quick fury, he arose, hovering over us like Shaq over Billy Barty, and erupted, "THAT'S IT, DAMMIT, NO MORE GODDAMNED 'GREEN HELL!" With that we scooted out from under his grasp, out of the Living Room, out of the house and down the street, congratulating ourselves as if we'd just won the World Series. For we had done it! We pulled off the impossible, a mighty feat indeed! Risking life itself, we were able to see what we truly believed was one of the greatest motion pictures of all time, "The Monster From Green Hell," eight straight times.That night, at my buddy's house, we capped our perfect week by seeing it for the ninth and final time.I have never seen it listed on TV again - and yes, I would kill to see it after all these years.