SuperHeroBooks - Hercules Against the Moon Men
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Manufacturer: Retro Media
Starring: Sergio Ciani, Jany Clair, Anna Maria Polani, Nando Tamberlani, Delia D'Alberti
Directed By: Giacomo Gentilomo
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0802993103795
Format: Dubbed
Label: Retro Media
Manufacturer: Retro Media
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Retro Media
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2002-08-27
Running Time: 87
Studio: Retro Media
Theatrical Release Date: 1965-05
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Summary: The writers were running out of ideas for Herc
Comment: This is one of the few Hercules movies where the title actually makes sense. There are moon men and Herc does fight them. It's in the last ten minutes of the movie and it's not very exciting or well staged, but at least it fulfills the title. Alan Steel is portraying our buff, intrepid hero this time out. Herc is called to a village where Queen Samara forces her people to sacrifice their children to appease the gods of the mountain which are the titular moon men. They're basically giant rocks come to life. There is a rebellion going on and Hercules tries to help by infiltrating the castle. The moon men tell Queen Samara to kill Herc. She tries and fails several times so changes tactics and uses her secret potion for Herc to fall in love with her. This device of a beautiful woman giving Hercules something to drink that gives her power over him is used in nearly every Hercules movie I've seen. The writers came up with moon men for Herc to fight but couldn't go without the standard drink gag. Hercules Against the Moon men is fairly dull. The title is the wildest thing about it. It's about 90 minutes of people standing around talking with one or two poorly contrived action sequences thrown in.
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Summary: HOOOOOOOOOO!
Comment: I bought this movie at a bookstore for 6 bucks. It was the best 6 bucks I ever spent. The dubbing is terrific and the set designs are top notch, as well as the fight scenes. If you like watching people get thrown into barrels, and awesome hand gestures, this is the movie for you.
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Summary: What? "Hercules Moons the Men?" What?
Comment: So. We have a mythologically confused society run by a cruel but beautiful queen. She has joined forces with the Moon Man (fell to earth, made the mountain crumble and spew lava, etc etc). He has promised her that she will join him in ruling the world, but only after she tosses a bunch of people into the blue-light hole in the side of the mountain. What he really wants is her beautiful blonde half-sister, who is to provide some kind of a blood transfusion to wake up the dead/sleeping moon princess who he brought with him to Earth. Now wait a minute. I see a three way developing. I'm not sure she is going to want to share absolute power over all the world with his moll! Anyway, the people rebel against being tossed into the blue-light disco so they call Hercules. Now all joking aside, "Alan Steel" is a great Hercules. He is actually warm and engaging rather than the wooden (woody?) porn star that Steve Reeves was. I mean, in the fake love scene with the beautiful wicked queen he actually exudes chemistry! Really!
Anyway, there's a lot going on, many shots of "Alan Steel"s bulging biceps, running through sand storms, and the absolutely hilarious rock men. "You rock!" my spousy shouted out. Actually, it was kind of scary when the rock men crushed the queen, but never mind.
Aaron the 7-year-old critic raved: Two sticky thumbs up. He liked it so much that he has requested "Hercules and the Amazon Women" for our next movie night. Recommended!
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Summary: Hercules was forced to take a shower
Comment: A fire from the sky drops near by Samara. It deposits something evil. This evil horde demands human sacrifice. The queen of Samara (Jany Clair) is in cahoots with the evil ones in exchange for a chance to rule the world.
Only one man can save them by leading a revolt. Yep it is Hercules (Sergio Ciani.) I suspect the queen could smell Hercules and ordered a shower. Evidently it did not work so she will try to make Herc take a powder, and he would be mooning over her.
Looks like another full moon and time for a sacrifice when the sound is turned off it looks like they are all going to the showers. Will Herc help? If you look close Herc looks like Bob Vila of this old house fame, only a tad smellier.
O.K. one more time lets try sand blasting him.
Let my people go.
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Summary: Moon Men and Rock People
Comment: Hercules (Sergio Ciani) encounters a wicked Queen Samara (Delia D'Alberti), who routinely gathers people up for sacrifice to the monsters in the mountain, which includes some guy in a leftover Greek movie mask, and a bunch of stiffly walking rock men. It seems that the monsters, or Moon Men, want to pull the moon in close to earth to make the earth a place for their kind. Of course, that will destroy the earth, but the Moon Men have promised Queen Samara that she will receive all the treasure and leftovers when the moon is pulled to earth. Yeah, right.
Hercules (who in the Italian version was some other guy called Maciste, but apparently no one knows Maciste in the United States, so he was renamed Hercules) runs around trying to save everyone and out trick the Queen. Along the way are some unintentionally funny lines, which the "Mystery Science Theater 3000" folks had fun with in a lampoon of this movie. One ready example: When Hercules arrives to keep Derax (Jean-Pierre Honoré from being murdered, but after he was shot by an arrow, the line "...just arrived in time..." is uttered. Too funny; if Hercules had arrived in time he would have arrived before Derax was shot by an arrow.
Even with its inadvertently funny moments, the movie is generally interesting if you like Italian sword-and-sandals movies, or possibly even Conan-type movies. The pace is reasonably fast, and the story line, albeit ridiculous, is relatively easy to follow. This movie is probably about average for this genre, and you can always try to put in your own one-liners.
One word of caution; I was unimpressed with the video transfer. The sound was okay, but the picture could use a lot of cleanup.
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