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The only way we’d watch another Bill Rebane film.
BLU-RAY DEBUT “Bad movie club” curators will want this Bill Rebane Collection box set. The director’s best known for The Giant Spider Invasion, with its arachnid built on a VW. That’s not included, but six other films – five shot at his rural Wisconsin studio – are. Expect am dram performances, incoherent exposition and massive plotholes.
Rebane didn’t finish 1965’s Monster-A-Go-Go; Herschell Gordon Lewis stitched it together with narration and extra footage. An astronaut returns to Earth nine feet tall, with a deadly radioactive touch. Rebane manages to render this Quatermass-y manhunt tedious; Lewis’s ending may be the most baffling in cinema history.