Monster a Go-Go
1965 film by Herschell Gordon Lewis
Monster a Go-Go! is a 1965 American science fiction horror film directed by Bill Rebane and Herschell Gordon Lewis (who remained uncredited in association with this film). The film is considered to be one of the worst films ever made.
Plot
American astronaut Frank Douglas was on a mission to identify satellites mysteriously not having been sent into orbit by any nation, but ground control lost contact with his space capsule (not shown).
Col. Steve Connors spearheads the search for Douglas's capsule after it is presumed to have parachuted back to Earth (not shown). Following up on a tip that a strange object had fallen to Earth near Chicago's Space Agency Astrophysical Laboratories, a helicopter patrol (unmarked) locates the nosecone of the capsule, but the pilot, Jim Taylor, mysteriously loses contact with Connors mid-sentence. Connors finds the capsule empty and the pilot far from the helicopter, dead and "horribly mangled in a way no one had ever seen before" (not shown).
Dr. Nora Kramer and Dr.
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