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 date	1976 (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 has an uncontrollable desire to consume large quantities of garbage cans. Some high school students find out about the monster and attempt to destroy it.

Trivia

• It was released on DVD with the alternative title "The Mutant Beast".
• The movie was filmed by, stars, and was written by high school students.
• The scene in which 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 IMDb
• http://www.milpitasmonster.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABSDzlE1He4