The Beast That Killed Women / The Monster of Camp Sunshine (Special Edition)

This is my fourth or fifth Something Weird DVD. Once you get a thing for them, it's hard to stop. That being said, I don't watch these films for their aesthetic cinematic value. These DVDs work as a snapshot of an era - an era, mind you, in which I wasn't alive yet...but it's fascinating stuff. And this stuff is never gonna be restored or updated to Blu-ray, so buy them up now. Besides, there's a certain joy to watching scratched, spliced, mold-damaged films on a top of the line HD TV.Unlike other reviewers, I'm gonna talk about the extras first. They are always the hidden joy of SW DVDs. Firstly, the whole dvd has this drive-in vibe, with 20 minutes or so of drive-in ad reels including: ads for Sprite, Vespa, Ed McMahon hawking Budweiser, as well as a slew of "Please Visit Our Refreshment Stand" ads.Their are several nudie shorts included, covering from the 1920s through the 50s. "Bring Em Back Nude" even includes the "drop another dime" breaks from when it ran in peep booths. My fave though is "Back to Nature" the one from '54. Firstly, it is oddly heat damaged (making it largely magenta)...but also several lovely women in it - proving that it wasn't all cottage cheese and sucking in stomachs in the 50s. And looking for hidden agendas - whoever filmed this one had a thing for the pubescent blonde - she's in most of the shots, and definitely not legal. My favorite part is where this older guy is barbecuing, and he just keeps staring at this redheads woman's butt instead of cooking. Can't blame him...Hell, just throw sauce on her, guy!I usually don't much care for the exploitation art with audio oddities feature, but this disc has a good batch....I wanna see "Massage Parlor Hookers" or "Little Whorehouse On the Prairie"! And the movie posters are insane - can you imagine a triple feature of "Last House On the Left", Bava's "Twitch Of the Death Nerve", and the brutal Inquisition film "Mark Of the Devil"? Wow!As to the features, they're enjoyable. "The Beast That Killed Women" is a naive low budget joy. With it's Florida-level talent and bright Eastmancolor photography, it reminds me a lot of "Blood Feast". Red just drips from the film....hair, skin tones - makes it more garishly enjoyable for me. Just watch the scene where the two girls are jumping for a towel - the color just POPS! Granted, 50% of the movie is topless girls standing around talking about how scared they are, but is that a bad thing? And keep an eye out for a young Juliet Anderson (aka 70s porn star Aunt Peg) as Ms. Johnson, the bait the police use to trap the beast. What, don't know who Aunt Peg is? Never seen "Taboo"? Oh, you kids... Although it's interesting: the one woman in this who later went on to fame in the adult industry, and she doesn't take her clothes off!"Monster Of Camp Sunshine" is a real oddity. The Pythonesque opening credits, the fact that a lot of it runs like a silent film (intertitles included), edited and photographed by Motley Crue (no, not those guys). The lead, Claire, is a stunning brunette who disinterestedly strips out of her clothes several times. A particularly striking scene is where she has a topless shoot on top of the Flatiron Building in New York. The ending of the film defies description but I'll try: a mutated hillbilly, our nude heroines, WW2 stock footage, a civil war (?) battle, a paratrooper to the rescue, an Army captain who looks like Borat, and a man with a gun wearing the worst-looking pair of tighty whities you've ever seen. And the minute-long recap at the end is amazing - it's like the movie is saying "what, you expect me to be serious about this?". It runs like an inept art film that happens to be a nudie with a sense of humor. It is 3 or 4 films on a collision course, and it's a joy to watch!So, three hours of 60's nudie strangeness - go for it, people!

The Beast That Killed Women is one hour and was released in theaters on August 5, 1965. The main story is that there is a beast in a nudist camp in Florida killing women. The movie begins in the present with a patient in a hospital telling the police about the incident. Then the movie goes backwards till it comes to the present at the end of the film. The title is misleading since only one woman was killed. One could tell from the beginning this was a low budget film. The beast is nothing more than a person wearing a monkey suit from a costume store. The movie is a few notches from being a porno movie. Yes, the females are, but there is hardly any full-frontal nudity and most female nudity is rear shots or topless only. There is hardly any male nudity, sorry ladies. Hardly any explanation was giving at the end how the beast escape or where it came from. The Beast That Killed Women gets a C- for poor story line.In the second the movie the Beast of Camp Sunshine or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nature is one hour and fourteen minutes and was released in theaters in August of 1964. The main story is that a scientist working with mice throws a jar of toxic waste into the river and finds it way to the gardener of a nudist camp. The gardener drinks the toxic waste and turn into a creature and terrorizes the nudists of Camp Sunshine. Up until you get to the end the movie is okay but once they get to last ten minutes or so then the rest of the movie goes south bad. The Beast of Camp Sunshine or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nature gets a D- for a poor ending.DVD ExtrasI. Play 1st FeatureII. Chapter IndexIII. Trailersa. The Beast That Killed Women 2 minutesb. Eves on Skis 2 minutesc. Goldilocks and the Three Bares 2 minutesd. Nudes on Tiger Reef 1 minutee. Nudist Life 1 minutef. Pussycats Paradise 1 minuteIV. Let’s Got to the Drive – in! 9 minutesV. Play 2nd FeatureVI. Chapter IndexVII. Naked Goodiesa. Short: Bring’ Em Back Nude 14 minutesb. Short: The Expose of the Nudist Racket 9 minutesc. Short: Nude Ranch 6 minutesd. Back to Nature 9 minutese. Nudist Fashion Show 3 minutesf. Intermission Short #1 9 minutesg. Intermission Short #2 8 minutesh. Intermission Short #3 1 minutei. Gallery of Drive – In Exploitation Art with Trash – O – Rama Radio – Spot Rarities 7 minutes

Again Watch The Xtras First ----- The Movies Are Ok ----- Campy 60s Style ---- Never Seen milk Being Sold Out Of A Soda machine Before ----- The 60s Were A Differnt Time ----These Vids Prove It

This movie is so unique, or should I say movies? They both take place in nudist camps, the Monster From Camp Sunshine is just some retarted fat man in an old creepy house, the ending is so funny you need to see it to belive it, they take war footage from military movies and insert it into the movie to makw itr look like they are actually all attacking the man, but it's just one fat man, and they need the entire US army to take him down? Yea I guess that was the plan! The Beast That Killed Women is more of a gorilla creature, both movies contain alot of nudity but no sexuality, there are tons of trailers for other "nudie cutie" films. So many trailers it's worth the buy, the movies are so strange they are really fun to watch.

Of the two movies, The Beast is better than The Monster. No full frontal nudity in the movies (there is in ONE one trailer), but loaded with T&A. DVD package well designed with tons of extras: trailers and vintage short nudie movies from the early century (the 20th that is...) Warning: no story and no acting !