“SEE THE UNLEASHED POWER OF THE 1,000 YEAR OLD BOOK”! (told ya it was old!)

Who wouldn’t wanna see all those things?? And then… it’s monsters monsters everywhere as the demon Asmodeous (not really a park ranger after all) and his minions battle said good-natured picnic-loving friends over said big-ol’ book!

Originally completed in 1967, shot and edited over a period of two-plus years on weekends and school vacations under the helming of four good-natured under-21 creature-feature movie and Famous Monsters magazine fans – all of whom (Dennis Muran, Mark McGee, David Allen, Jim Danforth) would go on to take the art of special effects to unknown horizons (Google them!) – and who’s labor of love film they’d thought could mayyybe end up as late-night TV horror-show fare… Instead they find it being scooped-up by THE BLOB producer Jack H. Harris and souped-up by the Harris-hired Jack Woods, directing/shooting additional hair-raising and head-scratching shenanigans with the recast now-years-older leads – as well as giving himself the part of not-really-a-park-ranger Asmodeous! The result being a longer film with a shorter title… one that retains the youthful filmmakers’ fantastical (and fantastic!) monster-loving fanaticism, creative ingenuity, and home-movie sappiness and wroughts it large on the big screen… Where like-minded weirdos as such at Time Square’s Empire Theatre – drive-ins across the South! – could marvel in its particularly puzzling mind-bending weirdness!!

And… as an extra special bonus side-trip for this trippy feature – The Deuce will be visiting with those movie-mavens of The Mahoning Drive-In for some off-Deuce discussion and fun!