Gila!
Jim Wynorski's Monster Movie Masterpiece on DVD April 22nd
"Rock
'n roll is here to stay" despite the best efforts of a giant gila monster
in Polyscope's sci-fi comedy movieGila! scheduled for release on DVD
this April 22nd.
Based
loosely on the 1959 sci-fi classic Giant Gila Monster, the revived Gila! features a ferocious,
rampaging giant gila monster, classy hot rods, vintage 50's rock 'n roll music,
cute co-eds, fist fights, drag racing and an all-star cast who rally to defend
their small town.
"A
perfect 'date night' drive-in movie," says producer Bill Dever.
"Family fun with music, action, a very scary monster and a terrific cast.
Inspirational sci-fi horror."
It's
not all the monster's fault since his giant size and voracious appetite come
from accidental toxic chemical contact, and beneath the action, Gila! carries a few
contemporary political, social and environmental messages.
Directed
by Jim Wynoski, the movie follows a small-town Sheriff and a young hot-rod
mechanic as they suddenly face the giant gila monster's surprise attacks -
first on farm animals, hapless humans, a passing freight train and then a small
Indiana town busily preparing for the big Christmas rock 'n roll dance.
"It's
funny, scary, camp and relevant," says Dever, "featuring some of
the best music of the 1950's and some cool cars." The antique hot
rods and classics were provided by a midwest car club.
Gila! stars veteran television
actor Terrence Knox (Tour of Duty, St. Elsewhere) as the Sheriff. The
handsome Chase is played by Brian Gross (Red Tails) who races, then
rallies with restless hot-rodder Jesse Janzen as Waco Bob and seductress Carla,
played with a passionate zing by Christina DeRosa as they fight the Giant Gila
Monster.
The
Gila Monster is no longer the federally protected and endangered southwest
desert critter thoughtlessly nudged through balsa wood walls in the original
movie. Clever EFX and a dangerous man-made chemical spill morph the gila
into a monster and cave crickets into chickens. Tracked down and annoyed by the
Sheriff's nitro explosion that supposedly sealed the cave the monster breaks
through by morning and wreaks havoc.
Town
drunk and civil libertarian Compton, played brilliantly by Rich Komenich, saves
the day with a bottle of whisky in one hand and the Second Amendment in the
other. His secret stash of machine guns and nitroglycerin - stockpiled to
fight Russians or Martians or atomic monsters - has everyone home just in time
for Christmas.
Gerald
Pauwels plays the classic rich, blowhard Mayor who is forced to face the
realities of city leadership as he, the Sheriff, the hot-rodders and town drunk
pull together to fight the monster. Actor Don Sullivan who plays hero Chase in
the original movie returns as the Scientist.
Gila
spit, as we all learned in junior high science and Sullivan reminds us, is bad,
but in Gila!giant
gila goo dissolves human flesh in wonderful B-movie fashion.
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