I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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

Blistering performances.

"Monster A Go-Go" was supposed to be the first feature film for Bill Rebane, who started filming this thing in 1961. His monster flick, originally called "Terror At Halfday", had a budget of 80.000 dollars, which was pretty much gone after a couple of days of filming. After he ran out of funding the film lay on the shelf for about four years, unfinished and with no hope (or desire) of actually being released.Cue Herschell Gordon Lewis (of "Blood Feast" fame), always on the look-out for the cheapest way he could get a film released. So he bought the abandoned footage from "Terror At Halfday" and 'finished' the movie. To cut costs, he decided to only ask a couple of performers back, which did not include Henry Hite. I should point out Henry Hite played the monster. He finished this monster flick ... without the monster. That's one of the main reasons why this movie feels like such a blatantly cynical cash grab.So Lewis only had a tiny little bit of footage shot with Henry Hite, and none of that footage could be edited to look like an actual ending. Lewis 'solved' that problem by creating one of the saddest anti-climaxes in the history of filmmaking. I honestly can't imagine how the people that paid to see this left the theatre after this screening. To quote Rich Hall: "It was so bad I wanted everyone's money back!". That was about a Bob Dylan concert, but it works equally well for this movie.For what it's worth: Rebane actually did try to shoot a big climax for this, that's actually the main reason the budget ran out so quickly. Some of the ending scenes feature dozens of extras, so that's clearly Rebane's footage. Lewis really wouldn't bother to do any of that. In later interviews Rebane has stated he hates this movie even more than the audience does, and I can't blame him. Lewis didn't even put his name on it, Rebane is the only credited director. Did I mention he only sold his "Terror At Halfday" footage for 8.000 dollars, while it cost ten times as much to film? I guess he got a really quick course on how film business worked.

NOTE: I tried to be unbiased towards my opinion in this movie. But it is really hard when you're talking about your new vote for "worst movie of all time." This is without a doubt THE WORST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN! there really is no redeeming qualities for this one. I am in a High School Film and TV Class and I can assure everybody here that I could have made a better movie than this.Firstly, movies must have something we call a plot. This might be revolutionary to the people who made this because all we are ever seen is this big bald guy who's a walking ad for clerasil (sorry guys - monster) just walking. Nothing else, just walking. Then we also have pointless scenes on how to catch the thing, but most of the characters are dropped and replaced with new ones. This makes it one of the most boring movies I have ever seen, without any payoff to it (sometimes boring movies have payoffs - this doesn't).Secondly, when the camera is pointing to something at night we must also be shown what that thing is clearly. Because there are some night shots when all you can comprehend are dots and silhouettes of people that only appear once or twice. Other shots where it's completely black.Thirdly, Some of the dialogue is barely audible. These are situations when the dialogue is supposed to be the only audio on the screen and I needed subtitles to comprehend what is going on. Other times the dialouge is too stupid for words (like the quote I used in my title).Fourthly, the ending makes no sense whatsoever. "In the end there was no monster." THEN WHAT THE F##K HAVE WE BEEN WATCHING FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF!!!!!!!!!! Fifthly, The movie tells us what happened rather than showing us. Instead of showing shots of some scientist walking around in angles pointing at his legs, then coming back to see his research destroyed by the monster(and what exactly does this have to do with anything) I think we need to be shown this monster destroying the research. It would be better than any of the other crap we are shown. Oh and this is not the only time the "Show, don't tell" rule is broken.This movie is about as entertaining as watching water torture. Mystery Science Theater is really the only thing that made me sit down and watch all of it. It was really awful. If I had watched it without Mystery Science Theater I probably would have fast forwarded it to the end in about 20 minutes maximum. I don't recommend you watch it, but if you want to make an opinion of your own then go ahead but don't say I didn't warn you.

OK so basically this movie proceeds as follows; a space capsule (helicopter) crashes (the helicopter was apparently fine) and leaves an astronaut dead. That's the first few minutes. The next hour or so is comprised of a random dance scene, a few random kisses, people sitting in cars talking, a detective (I think) walking around inquisitively in random field in a sort of neo-noir style, a 3 second view of the "monster," astronaut thing, and some guys at a science lab saying things that don't make any sense. Oh its gets better.Then there are some firemen attaching something to a bridge and a few minutes of the torso/legs of the supposed monster walking around. Then...plot resolution? Nope the monster disappears, the astronaut appears perfectly healthy a few thousand miles away, the "movie" attempts to rip off the ending of a Twilight Zone episode, and the audience is left with a overwhelming feeling of sorrow coming from realizing that this was the work of human beings. The only thing that semi-happened the entire movie was wrenched away.So I lied, it didn't get any better.My friend tried to warn me by describing the movie as follows...OK Imagine the worst movie you've ever seen, remove the plot, remove the characters, remove any sort of continuity, add a helicopter, some people that can't act, a random dance scene, and some random kissing. Then, take away all of that by making the non-existent monster go away and by revealing the only character you might have formed an emotional attachment to that had died was fine, a few thousand miles away. Basically, make one insignificant thing happen, have an hour of discontinuous scenes, and then take what little there was away at the end.This movie could quite possibly be a part of the worst punishment a human being could endure. It's sort of like a birthday party. Well more like telling someone there's a birthday party planned for them, getting in your car and driving around trying to teach that someone a new language, and then revealing to them they don't actually exist, there is no birthday party and that you just wasted an hour of their life teaching them a language that isn't actually real.If that sounds like your type of movie go for it but if you would rather leave your view of the human race somewhat positive this probably should not be watched.

Before viewing this movie, I was but a child in my meek understanding of the ways of nature, the world, and life itself. My outlook on the meaning of all things was changed forever after having viewed the abomination known as "Monster a-go go". I shall forever remember that day as the day I lost my faith in man and God. Oh, don't worry, he's out there, but wherever he is, He's laughing his head off at the gargantuan dump left on our doorstep that is "Monster a-go go".I bring great shame to my house and I in saying that I have seen this horror, without Mst3k, about a dozen times. My reasoning behind this oft suicidal act was that I believed that there must have been some deeper meaning behind it, Like that in 2001. I was young and foolish then, and had yet to understand that the world is not a happy place.If somebody asked me what I thought to be the worst film of all time, I would answer that it was "Manos: the hands of fate". The only reason why I think that Manos is a worse movie than this is that this is not a movie.I'll tell you what this is! This is a montage of random shots that Bill Rebane scraped of the soles of the shoes of of the likes as Coleman Francis and Ed Wood. This is a jumble of stock footage taken out of the film libraries under "Trash", and gargled in a toothless goat's mouth. This is was was left on the seat after Jabba the Hutt stood up to get a better view of the execution. This is what bad movies check under their beds for every single night. ETC, ETC.I won't get into detail about what horrors lie in random order in this movie, but to whoever watches this, lives, and understands what the scene with the woman whose car breaks down has to do with the rest of the film, I congratulate them, and wish them luck with whatever other mind-bending problems they may encounter.And now, a moment of silence to the inconceivable number of souls that have either passed away, or, more commonly, lost their minds during the films unfathomable "ending". And to those about to embark on "Monster a-go go", please include me in your will.