The Manster

1959

Action / Horror / Sci-Fi

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 30% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 30% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 1814 1.8K

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Plot summary

An American journalist stationed in Japan is given a mysterious injection by a mad scientist, turning him into a murderous, two-headed monster.

Director

George P. Breakston Photo
George P. Breakston

Top cast

Alan Tarlton Photo
Alan Tarlton as Dr. H.B. Jennsen
Toyoko Takechi Photo
Toyoko Takechi as Emiko Suzuki
Kenzo Kuroki Photo
Kenzo Kuroki as Genji Suzuki
Jerry Itô Photo
Jerry Itô as Police Supt. Aida
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622.7 MB
1204*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 13 min
Seeds 1
1.17 GB
1792*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 13 min
Seeds ...

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Infofreak

Waiting to be rediscovered!

I can't understand why 'The Manster' isn't better known! It's often unfairly lumped in with 'The Incredible Two Headed Transplant' and 'The Thing With Two Heads', but 'The Manster' is much more than a kitschy gigglefest. It is closer to another forgotten Japanese 60s movie, 'The Human Vapour', made around the same time. Both movies use horror/sf trappings to explore questions of identity and what it means to be human Philip K. Dick style. Neither reaches the giddy, hallucinogenic heights of PKD's best work, but they are both a cut above your average "monster movie" of the era.'The Manster' concerns a cocky American journalist who befriends a charismatic Japanese scientist. The scientist's lifestyle seduces the journalist who goes off the rails and ignores his job, wife and responsibilities. He thinks he's just letting his hair down after several years of hard work, but doesn't realize that he is the unwitting guinea pig in an ambitious scientific experiment which turns out horribly wrong.Try and see 'The Manster', and if possible make it a double bill with 'The Human Vapour'. You'll see that was a LOT more going on in Japanese fantastic cinema that Godzilla, Mothra, et al. 'The Manster' is a low key, imaginative movie just waiting to be rediscovered!
Reviewed by xyzkozak 5 / 10

Oh My Gosh!! It's The Ma-Ma-Ma-Manster!!

So - Are two heads better than one? Well - I guess you'll just have to watch this truly zany, Sci-Fi flick called "The Manster" to find out the answer to that daunting question.

Released in 1962 - The Manster is actually a kinda fun Mad Scientist/Horror movie to watch, providing, of course, that one doesn't take its goofy, far-fetched story at all seriously.

I found The Manster to be one of those outrageously low-budget, fright flicks from that particular era that was so bad that, somehow, it was actually (almost) good.

I think that it was a very wise move on the part of the director, George Breakston, to see to it that news-reporter Larry Stanford's hideous, two-headed transformation was kept partially concealed within the shadows of near-darkness - Otherwise the intended horror of Larry's horrific predicament would've, I'm sure, been completely lost by a string of unintentional laughs.

All-in-all - Even though I would never, ever consider The Manster to be great horror, I still thought that it was a least well-worth one honest viewing.

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