poe-48833 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.

mark.waltz 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.

JoeB131 It was the 1950's, and essentially, something called Television had everyone's attention and no one was going to theaters anymore, except for horny kids going to a drive in to make out. So essentially, putting the word "Teenage" in a title of a film was a great method of getting an audience anyway, as those kids weren't watching the stupid movie, anyway! Okay, here's the plot. A family of miners are struck by a (I guess) radioactive meteor, which kills the husband and burns the boy, turning him into a mutant. His mother hides the boy,who is now a vicious moron unable to realize his own strengths. He kidnaps a local waitress, who realizes there is money to be made manipulating an immensely strong moron. Hilarity ensues...Worth watching? Not really.

CelluloidRehab "It could have happened..." is the catchphrase of this movie. According to "legend", back in June of 1880 (somewhere in the Old West) a sparkler, I mean meteor, crashed near the mine of the Cannon family. Because of the crash, Jim Cannon (father/husband) dies and his son Charles gets a severe case of dirty face.So apparently Charles, becomes a giant yeti-like creature (I guess due to the meteor) who goes around killing indiscriminately (due to the fact that he is a child in a monster's body - think of Viktor from the Bride except with a worse vocabulary, diction and his jaw locked shut). During this time his mother has Charles continue to mine for gold, as she hides him in the basement. When gold is discovered, everything unravels (is there a greed destroys us all theme hiding in there somewhere??). Everyone in this movie seems to use Charles in one way or another, for their own schemes (even mom). You end up empathizing with Charles, simply because everyone around him is conniving and he is after all still a small boy (on the inside).I'm not sure what the merits of this movie are, except to a hospital ward full of insomniacs. It is quite dull, extremely slow and quite predictable. Thankfully this made for TV movie is only 65 minutes long.-Celluloid Rehab