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The Oompa Loompa Corral
Standard shoot 'um up Western, WITH MIDGETS! These Tiny Cowpokes spend their time riding Shetland Ponies around in a miniture set. Creepy in that Classic kind of way. Kind of like a teeny Ed Wood.

Tiny Terrors Big Laughs
The only All Midget Western Musical ever shot! Lots of fun and the cast went from shooting this strait into the Wizard of Oz.

I like the wrasslin' and the iddy biddy ponies!

A real hoot!! ... Read more

Description

George Zucco (The Cat and the Canary) stars in this campy, supernatural horror story. Zucco plays a crazed archeologist intent on protecting the fabulous Aztec treasure he has discovered. The professor invokes the Aztec god Quetzlcoatl, an ancient serpent, to guard his bounty. Soon, however, his paranoia leads him to turning the beast on anyone he thinks is a threat to his fortune. ... Read more

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What an Interesting Feather...
George Zucco plays the villain in this little film. The story is very similar to Lugosi Devil Bat but more rural.

Zucco has found a Quetzalcoatl and keeps it captive. The serpent bird is very protective of its feathers. Zucco collects them and gives them to those he has a grudge against. The creature is then released which attacks the holder of the feather. Of course good triumphs over evil as it usually does in these old films.

The effects of the creature and its flights are actually quite sophisticated. Zucco does his usual good job as the villain and gets good support from the rest of the cast.

A fun old B-film that holds together well even after all these years.

Great movie, bad audio quality
A great classic PRC Pictures cheapie. The only drawback is the audio quality of the disc.

The infamous flying bird/lizard monster movie from PRC
"The Flying Serpent" terrorizing everyone in this infamous Poverty Row Company production is Quatzalcoatl, the killer bird god of Aztec legend. However, when the monstrous puppet on strings shows up it is something of a welcome relief from the overacting of George Zucco as Professor Andrew Forbes, a demented archeologist who discovers the monster really exists. When he makes the mistake of giving his wife (Hope Kramer) one of the bird's feathers, only to see the monster track her down and kill her, he decides this is a golden opportunity to take care of some of his enemies. My favorite scene is when the reporter covers a couple of the murders live on the radio. This is one of those gloriously bad horror movies from the past; you have probably seen the cheesy monster at some point, so you might as well check out the rest of the story. This 60-minute 1946 film is credited on screen to director Sherman Scott, but that is just one of the pseudonyms used by Sam Newfield (the other was Peter Stewart). Newfield needed the cover because he was turning out a dozen films a year at that point in a career where he made over 200 films including a high of 23 in 1943. The obvious double-feature choice for "The Flying Serpent" is "Q," Larry Cohen's 1982 cult classic that deals with pretty much the same story.

Somewhat passable, for a grade Z effort
THE FLYING SERPENT has no aspirations of greatness. But it does have the coolly sinister George Zucco! A bargain-basement remake of another poverty row classic THE DEVIL BAT, this film passes the hour (running time: 59 minutes) serving up mild amusement. Zucco pretends to be innocent, but we all know (and so should everyone else in the movie) that he's behind the strange killings that are always preceded by the discovery of an unusual feather. Zucco's (admittedly average) performance really is the only thing that makes it worth a view.

As a lover of old low budget horror films, I give this one a "weak but fun". I'd recommend a rent instead of a buy, though, because the DVD is not a good value for the money. The picture quality is decent but the source material's quality is not very good. There are no significant extras included. It's only an hour long. Add those facts to a too-high list price, and you're best advised to buy it only if you KNOW you must have it.

great horror film from poverty row's best studio
George Zucco is excellent(again) as a mad scientist is this adapation of PRC's earlier effort Killer Bat (starring an aged Bela Lugosi). By leaving a beautiful feather from an ancient Mayan prehistoric bird by any intended victim, the angry bird kills that person in order to retrieve it's coveted feather. Great atmosphere shots with Zucco in cave with caged bird, and cool but clumsy shots of the serpent flying and attacking. This is not a B picture, but a Z picture (my favorites)and it's tops in that catagory. The wonderfully ill finaced PRC studio(Producers Releasing Corp)also gave us the Z horror classics: Black Raven, Man made monster, the Monster maker and the above mentioned Killer Bats. If you think Blair Witch Project was done on the cheap, you ain't seen nothing yet! ... Read more