THE LEMON GROVE KIDS MEET THE MONSTERS (1968)
I've said this before, but certain films defy description. This is...this. Am I making any sense? Genre-wise, this is a manifold cocktail (mummy moonshine?), blending experimental horror, science fiction, and madcap comedy. Everything begins to make sense once you discover that The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters was sutured together by Ray Dennis Steckler. Ray, if you're reading, I hate you. The Chooper wasn't pestilent enough? You had to sour the soil with this maladjusted melange, this mingle-mangle of manure? Folks, you have to see this mess for yourself to believe that it exists. Technically, it's a composite of three shorts, each one a "loving" homage to the Bowery Boys series from the 1940's. I have to assume that you have no idea what I'm talking about. The Bowery Boys were basically the Little Rascals, advanced in age. They were aimed at children, children who are probably dead now.
Because Steckler watched this stuff in his youth, he had to come up with the Lemon Grove Kids. Billed as Cash Flagg, he stars as Gopher, the simpleton of the bunch. At one point, he crosses paths with a random mummy. That's why I'm covering this b-nugget. For five minutes (give or take), Meet the Monsters turns into a White Zombie music video. And it's awesome, but again, this accounts for five minutes (give or take). I won't pretend that I wasn't mildly entertained by the second short, a hallucinogenic anomaly entitled "The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Green Grasshopper and the Vampire Lady From Outer Space." I also won't pretend that any sane person should ever watch this...this for any reason. Two of the side creatures are credited as Choopers (#1 and #2). Pfft, I'm onto you, Ray Dennis Steckler. I have your number, which in all probability, is a negative integer.
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