Monster from Green Hell

1957

Action / Animation / Horror / Sci-Fi

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 9% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 9%
IMDb Rating 3.7/10 10 1529 1.5K

radiation missionary jungle wasp scientist hero

Plot summary

A test rocket carrying wasps to outer space, to study the effects on them of weightlessness and radiations, crashes out of control back to Earth, into the jungles of Africa. The two astrobiologists in charge of the test mount an expedition to the Darkest Continent to retrieve their experiment, only to find the wasps have grown to giant size which are panicking all forms of life as they quest for food.

Director

Kenneth G. Crane Photo
Kenneth G. Crane

Top cast

Eduardo Ciannelli Photo
Eduardo Ciannelli as Mahri
Robert Griffin Photo
Robert Griffin as Dan Morgan
Vladimir Sokoloff Photo
Vladimir Sokoloff as Dr. Lorentz
Jim Davis Photo
Jim Davis as Dr. Quent Brady
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643.33 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 9 min
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1.17 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 9 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by BaronBl00d 4 / 10

Might As Well Miss It...Unless You Are Feeling Waspish!

Jim Davis plays a scientist who sends some animals, a few wasps in particular, into space to see how they fare under radiation. Alas, some wasps don't return and turn to gigantic proportions somewhere in Western Africa. Don't expect too much from this cheapie, but the film might be better than you expect prior to viewing. Despite the wasps and their infrequent screen time, the movie has the look and feel of a very cheaply-made film yet is able to tell a decent...okay, almost decent story. Made entirely in California with oodles of stock footage set in Africa, I found the film quasi-authentic. The acting was also somewhat acceptable. Davis was decent as were his co-stars. The film dives at the end with some quick resolution to an enormous problem. As far as bad movies go..you could find many much less entertaining and boring. Vladimir Sokoloff has a nice small role as a missionary in Africa.
Reviewed by richardchatten 3 / 10

Destination Africa

Kenneth Crane followed his classic 'Half Human' with this little masterpiece whose 1956 copyright date indicates they weren't in a great hurry to release it.In order to reassure the viewer that this is a twentieth-century sci-fi movie we get the usual footage under the opening credits of a wartime V-2 taking off masquerading as Dr. Quant Bradley's "experimental rocket". This time the film being cannibalised is 'Stanley and Livingstone', so they all don 19th Century pith helmets and WALK 400 miles across Africa to the Hollywood Hills to confront the giant mutant wasps following the "typical wasp markings" they leave behind them (although they look more like giant termites than wasps and in distress sound more like elephants than insects) that cosmic rays have created and are now wreaking havoc with the usual stock footage of antelopes and giraffes.At the time of his death in 1981 Jim Davis was a household name on TV as Jock Ewing in 'Dallas' and he is here supported by veterans Eduardo Ciannelli and Vladimir Sokoloff; the latter's daughter played by the soulful-eyed Barbara Turner (herself later the mother of Jennifer Jason Leigh).
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