C Movies

Caltiki, The Immortal Monster

Archaeologists discover the Blob's long-lost Mayan cousin in the ancient abandoned town of Tikel. Animated every 1400 years or so by the emanations of a passing comet, Caltiki consumes all in its path. Fortunately, this variety of giant amoeba is extremely susceptible to the military's handy arsenal of flamethrowers.

Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest

At some point these films were based on a Stephen King story, but that was a long time ago. Two orphans from Gatlin, Nebraska are adopted by an urban family, and then the fun begins. One of the kids is good, the other evil, and pretty soon there's corn and dead bodies all over the place. The climax occurs when the a huge monster that looks something like a rat pushed through a meat grinder sprouts out of the ground and starts eating people. Presumably this is "He Who Walks Behind the Rows," the deity worshipped by the Gatlin kids.

Crater Lake Monster, The

A meteorite lands in a remote lake. Six months later a plesiosaur appears and devours anyone on or near the lake, until it is subdued by a local sheriff using a bulldozer. This low budget film has good stop-motion animation by Jim Dansforth, but you will have to sit though a lot of filler featuring embarrassing rural stereotypes to get to it.

Crawling Eye, The

Hikers on the Swiss mountain of Trollenberg are attacked by a mysterious cloud, which later reveals itself to be a giant, extraterrestrial eyeball with creepy tentacles. Originally aired as a television serial called The Trollenberg Terror, this bit of campy fun earned the dubious honor of being the first film to be savaged by the boys at Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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Crocodile

A giant crocodile stalks teens on spring break in Southern California. This may be the classiest of the recent giant reptile cycle, with passable acting and some good special effects. It is also stands out for not kiling the giant animal at the end.

Cyclops, The

Either Susan Winter (Gloria Talbot) is truly and deeply in love with her fiancé, or she's terribly hard up. Three years after he disappears into a mountain range in Mexico, she gathers a band of explorers to go look for him. What she finds is a string of irradiated and enormous creatures, including a gila monster (probably on his way to his own movie), a gopher, and the Cyclops -- Susan's fiancé, who has been mutated into a horrible giant with a deformed face and a single eye. We guess he wasn't as keen on the idea of marriage, though -- he tries to lock her away in a cave. Yet another Bert I. Gordon film!