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‘Terror amok! Hungry for the flesh of the world!’
Caltiki, The Immortal Monster is a 1959 Italian sci-fi horror movie directed by Riccardo Freda and [uncredited] Mario Bava from a screenplay by Filippo Sanjust. It was distributed within the US by Allied Artists.

Plot:
A group of archaeologists investigating Mayan ruins comes throughout a blob-like monster. They handle to destroy it with fireplace whereas maintaining a pattern of the monster however not with out lack of life.

In the meantime, a comet is because of cross near Earth, the identical comet which handed close to the Earth on the time the Mayan civilisation mysteriously collapsed…

Evaluation One:
Administrators Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava carried out a perfunctory job on this X the Unknown rip-off, though it’s mildly fascinating as an indicator for some future key parts of Italian style filmmaking: there’s discovered footage and idle racism (each a mainstay of mondo motion pictures), overt greed, lust and a concentrate on gruesomeness.

In any other case, as a late Nineteen Fifties sci-fi horror movie, Caltiki lacks narrative drive, and British lead actor John Merivale (Circus of Horrors; Home of Thriller) is especially uninspiring. Fortunately, as soon as the Blob-like monster seems, issues perk up for some time. Nonetheless, the movie quickly descends into dreary army defence scenes accompanied by dialogue that’s as dated as a Forties serial.
Ade Smith, MOVIES & MANIA

Evaluation Two:
Caltiki The Immortal Monster is kind of good enjoyable as soon as it will get shifting, and whereas by no means precisely gripping – and a number of other notches under the British movies that impressed it – it really works effectively inside its imitations. It’s just for completist followers of both director, however you probably have a style for classic monster motion pictures, you’ll most likely have loads of enjoyable with it.
David Flint, MOVIES & MANIA

Trailer:

Alternative dialogue:
“You’re a delicate girl. You want heat. And care.”

Solid and characters:
John Merivale … Physician John Fielding
Didi Perego … Ellen Fielding
Gérard Herter … Max Gunther
Daniela Rocca … Linda
Giacomo Rossi-Stuart … Prof. Rodriguez’s assistant
Daniele Vargas … Bob (expedition member)
Vittorio André … Professor Rodriguez
Nerio Bernardi … Police inspector
Arturo Dominici … Nieto (expedition member)

Authentic Italian title:
Caltiki il mostro immortale

Associated:
The Blob
X the Unknown

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