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''Caltiki, the Immortal Monster'', AKA ''Caltiki, the Undying Monster'', <br />
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==Summary==<br />
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"Death dance of the Voodoo virgin! Crushing, crawling colossus of terror! Armies of the world combat deadly menace! None can stop it! Nothing can kill it! The ever-growing thing! Whole cities swallowed up by gruesome mile-high slimy glob of doom!" The stars are right, a deadly radioactive comet approaches Earth, and the vengeance of an obscure Mayan goddess is unleashed upon the modern world, in the form of radiation-eating blobs creeping from the depths of the Earth beneath her temple....<br />
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==Details==<br />
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* Release Date: 1959<br />
* Country/Language: Italy/USA, Italian (English dubbing or subtitles?)<br />
* Genres/Technical: Adventure, Horror, Sci-fi, Thriller, black-and-white<br />
* Runtime: 1 hr 16 min<br />
* Starring: John Merivale, Didi Sullivan, Gérard Herter<br />
* Director: Riccardo Freda (as Robert Hamton), [[Mario Bava]] (uncredited)<br />
* Writer: Filippo Sanjust<br />
* Producer/Production Co: Climax Pictures, Galatea Film, Lux Film<br />
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3czads1wp3Y link])<br />
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==Ratings==<br />
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* Rated: (not rated) (probably equivalent to a G or PG for mild and mostly off-screen 1950s violence)<br />
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===Tentacle Ratings===<br />
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The stars are right, a deadly radioactive comet approaches Earth, and the vengeance of an obscure Mayan goddess is unleashed upon the modern world, in the form of radiation-eating blobs creeping from the depths of the Earth beneath her temple.... At least one reviewer implies that this film is an adaptation of "[[Call of Cthulhu (fiction)]]", but any resemblance to Lovecraft's work is probably more likely due to a common ancestry in general pulp horror. Still, there will likely still be something of interest here for fans of "Lovecraftian" film. <br />
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''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''<br />
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===Reviews===<br />
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* Orrin Grey at Innsmouth Free Press, ([http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/column-the-vault-of-secrets-caltiki-the-immortal-monster-1959/ link]) - "Really, Caltiki kind of has it all: giant monsters, mummies, hidden temples, Central American folklore, mutations, radiation panic, and a little Italian horror gruesomeness. There’s even an early found footage segment...."<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
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Academic researchers are chased by a nuclear-hot specimen of ancient Mayan blob.<br />
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===Associated Mythos Elements===<br />
* film: compare to ''[[Quatermass (1953 franchise)]]'' (especially ''The Quatermass Xperiment'', ''X: The Unknown'', and ''Quatermass II''), and to ''[[The Blob (1958 film)]]''<br />
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