1958 - WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST, sequel to THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN

The Colossal Beast is back in this sequel to The Amazing Colossal Man.  After having been presumably killed by a fall off a cliff into a river the Colossal Beast (aka Lt. Colonel Glenn Manning) is living in the hills in Mexico.  After being drugged and captured by the U.S. Army the Colossal Beast is taken back to Los Angeles where naturally he escapes and runs amok leading to the inevitable giant stop the monster climax.

This low budget but highly entertaining film comes from who else, American International Pictures.  There's hardly a dull moment. Unfortunate actor Dean Parkin is stuck running around in a diaper stomping on small sets in a tribute to Toho Studios.  To compound matters Parkin is stuck with some kind of gross makeup on his face to let the audience know he is one scary monster dude.

The director is the legendary "B" filmmaker Bert L. Gordon who pumped out this kind of cheaply made horror/science fiction/fantasy stuff his entire career.  Some of his titles include, Attack of the Puppet People, Earth vs. the Spider and Empire of the Ants throughout his film making career and Gordon had a long career he lived to age 100. 

The film actually borrows from The Wizard of Oz of all things with the last section of this epic changing from black and white into color. 

 

The film was written by  George Worthing Yates and old hand at this kind of cheap monster movie stuff, the running time is a brisk 69 minutes.