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Wonderful Movie

Just perfect...

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Caught this movie way back in the 60's on Supernatural Theater. The movie The Blob Starring Steve McQueen was made one year earlier to American audiences. The success of the film despite the poor screenplay and acting gave Italian film makers an idea, a spin off.This movie was filmed in Black and white with poor dubbing. A group of archaeologists stumble across a cave laden with gold with the Mayan Goddess Caltiki. They find skeletons near the gold but fail to realize that a blob like substance is in the adjacent pool. Greed gets the better of our explorers as the first diver is consumed and the second diver Max (Gerald Haerter) barely escapes but has his arm consumed by the blob. Then you see the mass rise up from the pool ready to digest anyone in it's path. The crew barely escapes as the mass follows them out of the cave . Luckily a gasoline truck crashes into the mass/blob and destroys it. Next the team returns to Mexico City as their injured colleague is tended to to remove the blob scraps from his arm. Dr John Fielding (John Merivale) takes the blob substance and puts in his mansion for further analysis. Ironically a comet that passes the Earth every 850 years causes the blob to grow. Reminds me of the George Romero narrative in the Night Of the Living Dead. The Good Dr. Fielding tries to convince the Mexican government to destroy the blob but they arrest him instead. Meanwhile Dr. Fielding's house is being consumed with his lovely Wife and Daughter inside. I just enjoyed the ride from start to finish . Till this day foreign film buffs wonder who handled the bulk of the direction in the film. Was it Ricardo Freda or Mario Bava? I enjoyed this picture much more than the Blob despite it's many flaws especially in the special effects department. At times the mass looked like heavily stained bed sheets being pulled too and fro. The English voices were very distinguished, especially Max's character deep and throaty in nature. Just another 50's spaghetti sci-fi production that will leave you full.

Caltiki has some connection to the Mayans. The monster is a big bag of jelly that has the ability to ingest human flesh. The plot has to do with a cave and lots of gold and trying to deal with this thing. I remember that the monster is amorphous, unlike the blob which was more like a congealed wad of bubble gum. The production value on this one is really lacking, but, in fairness, they probably only had a few bucks and a coupled months to pull it off. As is usually the case, people do lots of stupid things as they encounter this menace. I feel sad now that we have become so jaded that we can't produce a tacky equivalent to this. It would never make the screen.

On the heels of "The Blob" comes Caltiki, the vindictive mass of an ancient Mayan god who literally swallows and disintegrated its victims, many of whom it had driven crazy beforehand. Unlike the American blob, this one is in black and white and thus not as gory. However, the attacks are certainly quite frightening.Italian made but badly dubbed, this is a mixed bag of horror and mythology. The voice of the litter girl sounds like something you'd hear on Rocky and Bullwinkle, and other voices don't match, either. Still interesting and quite graphic, there are a few moments where you might turn your head away.The special effects are by Mario Brava, who would find immortality with directing "Black Sunday". One ugly moment has one of the psychotic characters being shown inside Caltiki. practically dissolving into a skeleton before your eyes. A survivor of Caltiki literally has their arm chewed off. This isn't going to be for everybody. But I can see why it has a cult following.

This movie was better than Steve's McQueens Blob movie which was okay, but i thought Caltiki's story was more interesting and the effects was very good for the period of time that it came out. The effects was a okay in my book and when i saw it as a kid in the early 1960's, it scared the day lights out of me! I think it is one of the best movies of blob like movies that i ever did see. There's a lot of good movies within the past 60 some odd years that had blob like creatures or single cell protoplasm creatures in them. This i feel is one of the BEST films i ever did see. None hold barred! Caltiki the Immortal Monster is the best movie i ever saw and i highly recommend it to anyone!