The Milpitas Monster

The Milpitas Monster
Directed by	Robert L. Burrill
Written by	David E. Boston
Starring	Paul Frees Doug Hagdahl Krazy George Henderson Bill Guest Priscilla House
Release dates	1976
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Milpitas Monster is a horror/sci-fi/thriller film created in 1973-1976, directed by Robert L. Burrill. The monster was created by environmental pollution.

Plot

When a landfill is overfull, and pollution reaches its maximum, a monster is born. Made from garbage, and bearing a resemblance to a giant fly, the Milpitas Monster eats garbage to grow bigger. Some high school students find out about the monster and attempt to destroy it.

Trivia

• It was released on DVD with the alternate title "The Mutant Beast",
• The movie was filmed, stars, and was written by high school students,
• The scene where the monster takes a girl hostage, and climbs the electric tower, is an homage to the 1933 film King Kong,
• The monster makes the same screech as Rodan from the Godzilla franchise. It also has an origin similar to Hedorah, from the same franchise.
• Six years before Milpitas Monster was released, The Monster That Everybody Created, produced by Mike Carroll and written by Doug Brusig from Peterson High School, was the first Bay Area high school smog monster movie from a garbage dump, i.e., the Sunnyvale dump.

External links

• The Milpitas Monster at the Internet Movie Database
• http://www.milpitasmonster.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABSDzlE1He4