Caltiki - il mostro immortale
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| Caltiki - Il mostro immortale | |
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| Directed by | Riccardo Freda |
| Written by | Fillipo Sanjust |
| Starring | John Merivale Didi Perego as Didi Sullivan Gerard Herter Daniela Rocca |
| Release date(s) | 1959 |
| Running time | 76 minutes |
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Known in English as Caltiki - The Immortal Monster, this Mexico-set but Italian-filmed horror film concerns a team of archaeologists investigating some Mayan ruins who come across a blob-like monster. They manage to destroy it with fire while keeping a sample of the monster. Meanwhile, a comet is due to pass close to the Earth, the same comet which passed near the Earth at the time the Mayan civilization mysteriously collapsed. The film proposes the question "Is there a connection between the monster and the comet?"
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[edit] Critique
A good old-fashioned monster movie with a difference, Caltiki showed up on late night television very early. The co-direction of Freda and Bava is evident in the gothic horror look and feel of the film. Though variable, there are some good special effects and the plot is a bit more complex than most films with some decididely ambiguous characters and an interesting subplot.
[edit] Cast
- John Merivale
- Didi Perego as Didi Sullivan
- Gerard Herter
- Daniela Rocca
[edit] Tagline
- Crawling, Crushing Colossus of Terror!
[edit] Trivia
- Nominal director Riccardo Freda claims that future director Mario Bava did most of the directing of this film uncredited. Bava's first screen credit as director was the 1960 classic La maschera del demonio, also known as Black Sunday.
