The Manster

The Manster

Here is one for you Autumnforest! When I was little, Phoenix had a local show called “Wallace and Ladmo”. Along with Wallace and Ladmo were other kooky characters such as Aunt Maude, Captain Super and Gerald. Every Saturday they would be somewhere around town and all us kiddies and even adults would show up to see them in person and hopefully get a Ladmo bag. Sometimes they would appear at one of the local theaters and after the show they usually entertained the crowd with a horror flick. This was in the late 60’s and early 70’s, so many of the movies were cheesy black and white horror flicks from earlier decades. No matter how old, they still managed to scare me.

On Autumnforest’s blog “Ghost Hunting Theories”, she posted a blog about Parasitic and Vanishing Twins . For some reason one of those horror flicks popped into my head. The movie was called “The Manster”. This 1959 movie was about a reporter, Larry, which was sent to Japan to interview an unconventional scientist, Dr. Suzuki. This Japanese scientist lived atop of a volcanic mountain and was conducting bizarre experiments. Dr. Suzuki realized that Larry would make the perfect subject in his next experiment. Unbeknownst to Larry, Dr. Suzuki injected him with a serum causing great pain in his shoulder. As the pain worsened, Larry decides to examine his shoulder and finds a large eyeball that had grown in the area of the injection. Gradually, Larry is transformed into a morally repulsive two-headed monster.