This week, The B-Movie Boys dive into The Giant Claw, a movie that feels like it was engineered in a lab specifically to break the Schlockometer. Dave calls it a “doozy,” and honestly, he might be underselling it.

What starts as a fairly straight-laced 1950s sci-fi quickly turns into something far weirder, funnier, and way more memorable with the introduction of a battleship-sized bird monster that doesn’t just derail the movie, it redefines it.

We also discuss:

• The scientific merits of giant spirals
• Anti-matter. How does it work?
• How long should it take to make a movie?

Mentioned in this episode:

• Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
• 30 Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
• Independence Day (1996)
• The Lego Movie (2014)
• Sam Katzman
• Ray Harryhausen
• Jim Henson
• George Lucas
• Gordie Howe
• RFK Jr.
• The Simpsons
• ManBearPig
• Playboy

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Welcome to the B-Movie Boys, where bad movies get the love they deserve and the respect that they don't.

I'm Dave Michaels.

I'm Bryan Betz.

Are you ready for a doozy? I'm coming in as hot as I can just straight up calling this a doozy right away. This is a doozy.

Bold language. Bold doozy.

And this one's a doozy. Because I feel like this might be the reason why this show even exists. This movie right here.

This is the one. This is the inciting incident.

That's what the F stands for.

It must. I mean, now I've seen the Giant claw. I know that it does. Bryan, have you ever seen all 75 minutes of the Giant claw?

I've never even heard of all 75 minutes of the giant claw.

And now that you have heard of it and watched it and liked it.

Love it.

You got to have it.

I appreciate it. I appreciate it.

I don't know what that even means. Now, that is so flipping. You're not even committing to anything here. You're copping out, that's what you're doing.

I don't know how I feel about it. I know parts of it I love, but then. Parts? Yeah. There's other parts.

There's other parts to the movie.

Yeah.

They couldn't be any of the parts I'm thinking of because I loved every second of this movie.

And I love that for you.

And I appreciate that. Because how nice is to know I had 75 minutes of my life not wasted at all. And I'm a changed man because of it.

What a great feeling. And to only do it in 75 minutes is a treat.

And it didn't even feel like 75 minutes.

How about that?

This thing hummed along, but then you remember it's only 75 minutes and not 90 minutes. Why do I feel like it's longer and shorter? What is this movie?

What is this? Well, let's find out. Let's plug it into the schlock ometer and give this thing a B movie score, which is how B of a movie it is, I guess.

What do you consider a good B movie now that we've talked about five others before this?

I think it's all about intent. It's about entertainment. And Whether or not the person creating it gave a damn. That's what makes a great B movie.

And on our unbelievably scientific and arbitrary scoring system, the Schlockometer. If you had to assign a number for that's a good B movie, what would you think that number would be?

It's probably around the 60s and higher, I would say.

Okay, I like that answer. Because then so far, we're crushing it.

Yeah, so far so good.

I'm so curious to see how this thing scores. Spoiler alert. It's going to be through the fucking roof.

I don't know that it is.

Oh, this is going to be so exciting to talk about that. I can't wait. Can we do it now? Can we do it then?

Yeah, let's do it. We usually start off with the audacity, but in order to do that, we need to tell the story of the movie.

Engineer Mitch McAfee spots a battleship sized UFO during an Arctic radar test. But the military ignores him. Until commercial and military planes start vanishing without a trace. On radar.

They're all about that radar. They're like, hey, it didn't show up on radar. It's not real. You're bullshitting us right now.

If they didn't see it on radar, they're not going to believe anything.

They think Mitch is full of shit and he's behind the disappearance of the planes that have gone missing. Looking for this thing, whatever this thing.

Is that he didn't see, but also says he saw.

That's Mitch and mathematician Sally Caldwell, AKA the only female character, survive a crash landing in the mountains and never mention it again.

I don't think you could stress enough how much they don't talk about crashing an airplane.

Yeah, the pilot dies and they just kind of wrap him in a blanket and put him on a couch until somebody comes and takes them away. And then they never mention any of this ever again.

It never comes up. No stress, no anything. That's the movie here. That's what we're dealing with.

I don't know about you, but if I were to plane crash, I would probably have just the slightest smidgen of ptsd. I don't think I'd be jumping on more planes anytime soon.

Well, I got bad news for you, because this man, our Mitch, our sweet baby boy with his dapper Dan haircut, he's jumping on a lot of airplanes in this movie. There's so many places, it's ridiculous.

In the mountains where they crash, they meet Pierre, a sweaty French farmer, who warns them Of La cacarna. La carcagne. La Carcan. Yeah.

Hold on.

It's a mythical bird woman with a La Carcania. La Carcagne.

Yeah. You got to think like a French Canadian. La Carcan.

Oh, that's La Carcan. Yay.

I'm pretty sure that's what they called Gordy Howe. Oh, yeah.

La Carcan. Yeah. It's a mythical bird woman with a wolf head and bat wings who's a harbinger of death. Because of course she is.

Why wouldn't she be honest?

See La Carcagne. You're gonna die.

How do you know if you saw La Carcagne?

Oh, if you see her, you know, but you don't.

Famously, she's a mythical bird woman with.

A wolf head and bat wings.

But I'm saying if you physically see it, it's got, like, yeti filter on it. You can't see what it is.

Blurry.

Always blurry. Despite being the size of a battleship.

She's the size of a battleship and she doesn't show up on radar, as is part of the French Canadian mythology.

Exactly. Our sweet baby boy, Mitch. He tries to kiss the only woman in the movie while she sleeps.

Ah, the 50s.

I don't know how the Mile High Club work when there were still, like wicker seats in airplanes, but I don't think it was ever this rapey.

So here's a fun fact. The guy who played Mitch, 50, and the lady who plays Sally, 27. So there's a fun extra layer there.

Maybe that's another way they sold Jeff Morrow into this movie because he was a well known actor. This is what he did.

Yeah. This movie's actually got a pretty solid.

Cast with pretty solid performances for the most part. Well, guess what?

For the most part, yes.

But back to the plane raping. God, it's so uncomfortable to watch the plaything. Don't give it a name.

No, right. That's so inappropriate. Don't give it a cute name.

When the only woman in this movie wakes up and says she doesn't want to do that, she, like, role plays with him.

Actually, she says she doesn't want it, but then she asks him to steal second.

It's weird, though, that as soon as she's like, oh, you try and steal second. He's like, actually, I'm not interested anymore.

Shut it down.

Now that you're awake, the fun's out of it. Doesn't want that gross.

Jello pudding pop. That's what he's all about. He's that type of man.

It seems like he likes the jello,.

But since she woke up and she doesn't want it anymore, Mitch is going to connect multiple plane disappearances by drawing a big old spiral on a map.

Because science, science, everybody knows if you start drawing spirals on maps that connect all the stuff, there's something flying in the sky in a spiral pattern.

That doesn't seem practical for this flying object at all.

No, not at all.

Let me start in the middle and work my way out. Of what? This isn't like the yellow brick road. You're not trying to get out of Munchkin Land.

I mean, maybe that's part of the legendary French Canadian mythology. The spiral pattern's part of it.

Sacra Blue. There's a spiral pattern, and we must not follow the spiral pattern, even though we can tell where this big bird is going to be next.

So Sally gets the bright idea. We should send up some weather balloons with some cameras on them so you can get a picture of this thing.

Because more and more planes are going missing and people are claiming they're seeing giant birds in the sky. She's like, this is crazy. Get pictures.

So they put up all these weather balloons in the same place. They didn't separate the balloons. They clustered them all together.

Do you think the cameras were facing different directions?

Who's to say?

Who's to say?

But the bird does fly directly at one of the cameras.

Luckily, it's very lucky they get a picture of this battleship sized, hideous bird that looks more like a puppet than a predator.

How long do you think they were sitting looking at these snapshots of nothing, waiting for possibly a giant bird to show up in the pictures that they're looking at?

I have lots of questions because it's not like you could just drop film off to be developed and, like, come back later. There's no, like, SD card. They are, like, developing these pictures in a dark room, waiting for something to show up on them.

Someone's going to see something show up on this. Before anyone sits and actually looks at the pictures, family vacation style.

You would think the person that developed the film would have, like, put the one with the bird on top, but no, we got to go through a few blank pictures first.

General. I got a red flag. For the last time, Smithers, it's a red light when you're in the room. Don't know why I named him Smithers.

I don't know. It felt very Simpsons. Like a very Simpsons esque moment.

Smithers. Smithers. There it is.

So science is gonna continue pretending to be in this movie when Dr. Neumann explains that the bird is from an anti matter galaxy and that it's surrounding itself with an energy shield that makes it invisible to radar and immune to conventional weapons.

Oh, that's gonna be difficult to defeat.

I love the science that he uses to come up with this because he just goes, our weapons are not working on it. And our weapons work against matter, famously. Therefore, this bird must be bizarro matter. That is.

That is. I was just gonna say that this is like some Batman 66 jumps in logic to figure out the problem here. That bird is extraterrestrial.

It comes from outer space.

So how do we stop the bird that can't be stopped?

Well, we have to sleep on it.

We're going to have to not put more people on this problem and keep the same three people working on the bird issue.

We have a mathematician, a pilot, and a doctor of some sort of science. Surely the three of them can figure this out.

But until then, this giant bird's going to torment Canada. We're fine, right? It seems like it's just staying up there until it's not.

It's pretty much hanging out up in the Great White North.

But the bird does eventually go on a rampage across the globe, destroying trains, eating civil aeronautics experts who are luckily already wearing parachutes, killing some horny hot rod teens, and shrugging off nuclear strikes as if they were mosquito bites.

I love how you have these pilots eject from the airplanes. The bird eats the plane and then circles back and eats the guy who's parachuting down. Ah, beautiful moment.

Big bird doesn't care that that's a war crime.

Here's the thing about us saying that it's a big bird. It's the size of a battleship.

I wasn't prepared. And you know it's the size of a battleship because they tell you at least 11 times in this 75 minute movie that it's the size of a battleship.

And this bird doesn't look so much like an eagle or a raven or a crow. Right? This looks like some sort of, like, incest turkey.

It's an evil Muppet incest turkey.

I want to talk about it so badly.

This thing looks like it comes from Jim Henson's Fever Dreams.

This looks like what would happen if Jim Henson just did a ton of Peyote.

If you took the worst parts of every Muppet and combined them, this is what you get.

If Trey Parker Matt Stone made a Muppet of man Bear pig, but then also turned it inside out and shit down its throat,.

And then forced it into the shape of a bird balloon.

Animal style, tied it off, showing the strings and all,.

And then had it,.

You know, socks and we're going to get toy planes.

Yeah, we'll get there.

This is going to be like one of those weird times. I want to tease it. The fact about the bird that we're going to get to is one of my favorite facts I've ever read in my life.

It's so good. I can't wait to get there.

Stay tuned. We're going to get there. This is a.

We'll get there. That I promise will come to fruition.

So because of science, yet again, they realize that this bird is here to colonize.

That bird is dropping some babies.

So Mitch and Sally find its nest in the Adirondacks and smash a giant egg with leaning to the arranged mother. Big bird killing poor Pierre. Why Pierre?

Why Pierre? Well, Pierre was stupid enough to run away toward the bird instead of staying hidden.

He did it completely wrong. That's understandable. Then you can't do that.

Just one of those things. Like, don't run toward the angry mother mourning. It's dead. I want to call it an abortion, but you can't do that. Another B movie with birds.

How about that? I can't believe it. This has to be a trope, right? At some point.

At some point, this has to be. Like, if we get to one that doesn't have any fried chicken or giant evil birds, something's gone wrong.

Also in this movie, the same three people are the ones doing all the work when they say, like, no, this bird definitely on another planet came to our planet later. Now we gotta go find the egg. Let's not tell anybody or get anyone else involved or. I don't understand what they're going after in this movie.

No, we don't need the army. We've got Mitch and Sally. They'll find the eggs and shoot it.

But because it's just Mitch and Sally working on this, with sometimes the help of Dr. Neumann, they get, you know, working on solutions on how they can get past this antimatter shield that this giant bird has.

And Mitch insomnias himself into inventing a Mew Mason cannon gun thing, which is basically a tube mounted to a B25 bomber designed to collapse the bird's shield.

The way he designs this thing gave me big time.

Honey.

I shrunk the kids. Wayne Zielinski trying to set up the laser vibes. Yeah, it's not like that. When we actually see what the weapon.

Does, we get a big montage of just like giant tubes exploding and failing.

And they keep repeating, fail, failure, failure.

Another failure. The narration, by the way, Fred fucking Sears.

What is his accent?

I have no idea. It's almost transatlantic, but not quite.

I think it's kind of like transatlantic, but like you're definitely going to die nine months after filming this movie and doing this narration.

Is that what happened?

That's wild.

Yeah.

I know. Isn't that insane?

That's nuts.

We'll get there. Again of why he was able to do this. There's so much to talk about.

But this movie is pretty much over because the creature is going to attack New York City.

Well, yeah. I mean that's where the climax of every giant monster movie has to take place.

It lands on what they want us to believe is the Empire State Building.

Yeah.

A model of a building that's vaguely in the shape of that building.

It is Empire esque.

It knocks that building down. It goes and flies over to the UN Building because it's just landing on buildings that people are definitely going to know the names of.

Didn't it knock over the Washington Monument famously Not in New York City.

It absolutely did. But this B25 is just going to start flying around chasing the burn and. And it shoots the Mu Mei son cannon gun thing at the bird.

And it turns out that it's just like a Vicks VapoRub that comes out. It just steams matter onto the anti matter bird or it takes away the antimatter.

They build it up so much and he's just like pushing a button and it's going boop. And then steam.

That's it. And they're like that bird shields down. Have at it. And the army's like kay.

And then they do and they shoot the bird down and it lands in the Atlantic. The end.

The end claw.

That's it.

Out of the water.

That's a great last shot though.

It's fantastic.

Just this rubber claw that does not look natural at all. Oh, fuck. This movie, man, is so good. Nothing happens and everything happens.

That's accurate.

And that is the giant claw from.

1957, Aka the movie where Mitch and Sally had to do everything.

The audacity of this movie. Not high.

That's it.

Yeah.

Does it do the thing? Yeah, it does it.

Does it do it? Well, mostly except for the parts that are supposed to be the climax. But, you know, who cares about that.

When the bird's not involved? It's working.

It is working when the bird's not involved.

And when the bird is involved, it's working even harder.

It's definitely doing more work. I don't know if it's working harder.

There's the whole like, work smarter, not harder. It's like. Did it do either? Not really.

No. No. It worked harder, but not well.

It didn't very much. Didn't.

No.

Look at there. Somebody will get theirs. The Audacity three.

Three Perfect heart.

This is a tricky one. This is tricky because how does one gauge the heart of producer Sam Katzman?

Sam fucking Katzman.

Sam Katz was very famous because he was able to turn out movies very quickly.

How quickly are we talking?

This movie had one of the longer production cycles for him. And it took 20 days to film.

Holy shit. That is not a lot of time.

Typically he was filming movies in six days.

Oh, my God.

And they were in theaters three weeks later.

Stop. How?

The answer to that's actually pretty simple because it's our director, Fred Sears.

Fred Sears.

They are looked at as the defining producer director combo in B movie history because of what they did during this time period. Okay, Fred Sears directed 54 movies.

That's crazy.

And he died in 57.

He had an eight year career where he directed 54 movies. Between 31 and 35 of them were Katzman Sears joints, depending on uncredited co directing, all things like that. It's not though.

Because they averaged one movie every seven weeks together.

Oh, my God. This is the most asinine thing I've ever heard. I love it.

And Sam Katzman hired Fred Sears because he was known as One Shot Sears. So pretty much, if the scenery didn't fall over on the set, they said, print.

Boom. That's it. We got it.

That's it. We got it. It's in the can now.

That explains some of the things in this movie.

Especially when it comes to Pete the pilot, the guy on the first plane where he like kind of leans forward a tiny bit and then he's just suddenly dead. And then when the plane crashes, he's like, Getting up and moving away from the wreckage.

That's one take. Sears for you. He'll get it.

I love it.

But Sam Catsman wanted to turn off these movies this quickly because he wanted to stay topical. He wanted to stay with what the trends were. Does that put his heart in the right place or does that just put his wallet where he wants it?

I don't know how much money he's making off of these things.

Honestly, I read a quote from Sam Katzman that said something to the effect of like, it doesn't matter if it's good enough. It just has to put people in the theater. Which is a pretty damning statement.

It really is. I can't judge the heart of this guy who made this movie. Fred Sears. No. Better. Sorry, that's not the same.

50 Some odd movies in eight years tells me that maybe your heart's not in the story so much as it is the paycheck.

I'm gonna go four.

Okay. I. I can agree.

Feels low, but it hurts. But. My God.

But. But. Yeah. And it's not like it's a perfect production either. I mean, the skip.

The script does suffer from some pseudo sciencey mumbo jumbo to make itself sound smart, and there's some questionable acting in places, but most of that could be forgiven. Unfortunately, the heart just doesn't seem to be in it.

The movie's only 75 minutes long. I mean, it's not like the script was the length of a battleship.

It didn't need to be. You just put the word battleship in it every. What?

Every two pages?

All right, the next category is technical incompetence.

There's not a lot, and that's a little frustrating. It's.

It's well shot, it's very well lit, it's at times and most of the time well acted. You know, except for when it's not. And unfortunately, that is the parts where your titular characters on screen.

Yeah, but at the same time, is it really incompetent? It doesn't look good.

It doesn't look good, but I wouldn't call it incompetent.

Like to the point that it looks so not good that this is ranked among the top worst movie monsters, period.

Yeah. I will say though, the shots where he's eating the parachuting soldiers pretty well executed.

I think where the bird picks up the trains is pretty good.

Does that mean we're giving it as low score for technical competence too?

I'm going to go three again.

Wow, this hurts so far.

It really does. It really does. We're going to break something soon, though,.

And I know we have to. We have to. Luckily, low budget, ingenuity, creativity in the face of zero money.

So Sam Katzman, to put it really lightly, was a cheap fuck.

Yeah, yeah.

And beyond that, he was also a liar.

Oh, big time.

Again, this is the tail end of the studio system. But in the studio system, you trust the system.

Right.

They sold this movie to Fred Morrow by saying, we're going to get Ray Harryhausen to do the monster.

Stop motion, model creation. Love it. He's like the king of that, too.

Spoilers. They didn't.

They did not.

The actors never saw the monster during.

Filming, nor did most of the crew.

They pretty much shot this thing in the way that George Lucas shot the prequel trilogy of. You're acting against nothing, but I'm gonna tell you that's there, and you're gonna react to the thing that's not there. But just imagine it.

It's the scariest, biggest bird that you've ever seen on screen.

It's like the size of a battleship.

So instead of getting Ray Harryhausen like he said he was going to do, instead he hires out a small studio in Mexico City to make the monster for $50.

Allegedly for $50. Lots of rumors going around about how much this thing actually cost.

I actually think Jeff Morrow at one point made a joke in an interview that the monster cost $19.27 to make.

It might as well have, because Jeff was horrified with this production, as he should be. He went to see it in his hometown, took his entire family. Movie's going fine until the bird pops on screen. He goes, oh, fuck.

The whole crowd erupts in laughter.

He sneaks out of the theater to go get drunk because he doesn't want to be bothered this movie anymore.

Yep. Amazing.

Sam Katzman's also reusing footage from his previous movies that he shot with Fred Sears. And you occasionally will see the random UFO in this movie.

There are shots recycled from Earth versus the flying saucers, the day the Earth stood still, 30 seconds over Tokyo, and a whole lot of other movies.

If there was a special effect that he didn't want to actually film, he just bought the stock footage for it and called it a day.

Earth versus the Flying Saucers. Is actually how I think that shot of the Washington Monument toppling is how that ended up in the movie.

Fair enough. We need a building falling over. I mean, nondescript enough, right? No one knows what that is.

One of the most famous monuments in the country. Yeah. No, nobody on that. No, that's in New York City.

We're showing this movie to Americans. They don't know geography.

They also didn't tell the artists who did the posters what the monster looked like.

That's why it looks like an eagle. It's so good.

All of the posters have like this awesome looking eagle. There's different variations of it, but none of them actually look like the bird in the movie.

For low budget ingenuity, he's doing it by choice. But it's working.

It's pretty ingenious.

Absolutely not.

Look at that. There you go. It's something that stood the test of time.

You did say that. Sam Katzman. Liar.

And I fully believe that because at one point in an interview, he said that all the movies he made around this time cost between 250,000 and $500,000. And ain't no fucking way.

There's just no way. No possible way.

Absolutely not.

Were you able to find the budget.

For this thing or only that report from Sam Katzman that. That said that's what he spent on these movies at that time.

And the part, I have to believe, with the actors at least, because the actors thought they were doing a serious thing and that's why their performances don't suck. Yeah, but again, they trusted everything because Jeff Moore was getting his wage.

And as creepy as the relationship between Mitch and Sally seems in this movie, it's actually like believable chemistry for a 50s movie like this.

All right, I'm going 10. Fuck it all the way. 10 All the way.

Hell yeah. Give this thing some fucking points. Genre exploitation is next.

11.

If we are talking about monster movies, yeah, we're exploiting the fuck out of it. If we're talking sci fi horror, maybe not so much.

I don't know. I think we're exploiting the fuck out of that too. We made up a laser gun thing that shot spray and made anti matter become matters.

It is loosely based on real science, though.

I mean, is it everything? To a certain extent. Listen to the shit RFK Jr says. I'll quote him.

Wow, that was a really good brainworm impression.

Thank you so much. I took my shirt off, put my jeans on. It was great.

Loosely based on science.

That's right.

No, I think. I think you're right. I think this is definitely leading into the genre.

I mean, you have your initial creature setting, followed by disbelief, second and more destructive appearance by the monster, finally realization of existence by disbelievers, and then the struggle for a means to destroy. It is basically the full checklist for this genre of movie at that time.

It nails. It checks every box.

Every single one. Did you say 11, though?

I sure did.

You know what? I'll allow it. We're making up for lost points early.

He purposely filmed movies to exploit genres.

That's true. When you. When you put together the. Hey, I got six weeks and I'm going to reuse a lot of old footage. Sounds pretty exploitative.

Fred Sears is noted when people look in the past for having no specific look to his movies.

Well, there you go.

He has no signature style. He has no specialties. He is just your workman. Director of. You want me to make a movie about Big Bird? I'll make a movie about Big Bird.

All right. I make a movie about Big Bird. Give me quarter million dollars and 20 days.

I'm sticking with my 11.

Yeah, I'm for it. Moving on to the Holy Trinity. Blood. Boobs. Booms.

Would have been absolutely crazy. You would have to wait a year and a few months to see her boobs in Playboy.

We got close.

As close as you could get in the 50s. Really? Blood. There's a little bit.

There's a teen tiny bit. There's plenty of booms.

Pete the pilot gets a little bloodied when he has his unfortunate lean forward. And there are so many booms.

I'm gonna go seven. Two out of seven for good.

Enough meatloaf math, baby.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

Yeah. You know when I did it?

Damn right I do.

Memorable characters is the next category.

Outside of the bird, probably nothing.

I'm probably not going to remember anybody outside the bird, but I'm going to remember that bird forever.

The bird alone. I'm going seven.

Seven for just the bird.

Wow, that bird's going to haunt me.

I'm going to bring it down to a six.

Oh, that's fine. Completely. I thought you were going to go below 5. So this is great. This is awesome.

No, honestly, I probably would have said five, but in between that, that's Six. We averaged it out.

You're never gonna forget this bird.

Never. Never. This bird lives with me forever. I was surprised by the amount of fan art of this bird on the Internet.

There's a lot.

There's a ton and reimaginings that like actually look terrifying. People were talented.

People were talented. But then there's also like these hop toys that are just like 3D printed little goobers that don't look great at all for $12.

But that's appropriate for this movie at the same time.

Like, yeah, that's film accurate. Next category is quotes.

I'm going to be quoting that battleship line for the rest of my life.

It's as big as a battleship and that's about all I get from this movie.

But it's said 11 times in this movie.

I was going to say that is like a quarter of the movie though.

Me and you are already quoting this movie outside of this movie.

That's true.

That didn't take long.

It took a couple days for me to say, so ask if something was as big as a battleship.

I mean, outside of that, there's not a whole lot in this movie. I'm gonna go three because I love the battleship line. But that's it.

Yeah. A generous three for battleships. Entertainment value.

75 Minutes.

75 Minutes and a blast of a 75 minute runtime.

It hums along. We get crazy.

A giant bird fly through the sky as a blur and watch a man and a lady go back and forth from New York to Washington like three separate times to Canada.

I think a couple times. Yeah, it's. It's nuts. Also, the fact that the bird doesn't show up until 26 minutes into the 75 minute movie and it's still like this is great.

Is a testament.

And also our lead character is looking for his pants twice in the span of the first half hour.

It's amazing. How does this man always losing his pants?

It's incredible.

All right, all right, I'll come with you, but just let me get my pants first.

The man never has pants. It's like the Lego movie.

Yeah, I decided to take a nap after solved your science problem. Now give me my pants.

I was beyond entertained this entire movie.

It was very entertaining.

I am going with a full blown 10.

Really?

I absolutely am. When you think B movie, this should be the first movie you think about.

It's crazy because it's two different movies and both are entertaining in different ways. Which just leads to this roller coaster of enjoyment of one variation into a completely different Kind of enjoyment back to the other.

And it's just, yeah, sure, 10 it. Why not?

You're right. It is two different movies, big time.

And the best part is like at a certain point you're waiting for the bird because you know it's going to be great. But then they're putting all the science filler in at the same time. You're like, surely this isn't going to work. Right.

I even told you at one point I said, this sounds like a good idea.

Wait a minute, is this actually going to work?

I know it's pseudoscience, but he says he's going to shoot a laser at this thing. It's going to matter. The antimatter, not at all what happens, but that's what they said would happen.

More of an antimatter matter misting.

Pretty much just a humidifier that they turn on.

So I read somewhere that the pilots of the other of the bomber, the lieutenant General Edward Considine and General Van Buskirk, okay, to date, highest ranking pilot duo in a movie.

That doesn't surprise me at all. Because watching these two old general guys in this plan, I went, this just feels wrong.

Yeah, like, why are these guys flying this?

They're way too old to be doing this. This is a young man's game.

The way you shoot down this bird and then just kind of smile at each other like, yeah, I guess we could retire now.

You know that like after the camera cut, they did the Predator handshake and Lyus went, iwo Jima buzzkirk.

You son of a. Yeah, I guess until Independence Day, it was the highest ranking military official on screen piloting a warship. But obviously the President Day, you get the President. So like, so still holds down the record for highest ranking duo of co pilots.

And that's just a fun little tidbit.

That's like one of those statistics at a certain point where it's just like, oh, that's the oldest guy to fly. During the noon hour on a Tuesday in the month of March during the equinox.

Highest ranking military official co pilots in a movie is not that precise of a category. All right, it's I hear it now. Final category is cult ability.

Big, big, big, big, big, big, big.

If the lead actor in the movie had to slink out of his seat and sneak out of the theater during its premiere, this thing is rife for midnight viewings.

If I saw this playing at a midnight screening within a two hour drive of me this weekend, I would be there. Yeah, this would be a Phenomenal midnight movie with people.

This would be so much fun.

I'm going in 11. Wow.

Two elevens.

Yeah. Yeah. This, to me, is like the ultimate B movie in terms of stereotyping B movies.

This is like the blueprint. This is what we compare the other B movies against.

You could. You really could.

It kind of feel like the benchmark of how these movies came to be. And it's a proper B movie. Like, it was released as the B movie of a double bill with the Night the World Exploded.

Sounds like a great day at the theater.

It really does. Apparently neither movie was well received.

Exactly. And Sam Katzman put butts in seats. Made his money.

He sure did. Or he didn't. I don't know. Did this movie make any money? Who knows?

It's impossible to tell when you're releasing two movies at once in the theaters. What's making money and what's not.

That's a good point.

It's a double feature. We'll never know.

Oh, he, like, makes a second movie as just a loss leader.

Exactly. With that, we have arrived at a final score for the Giant Claw.

And for a benchmark, it's actually our third highest score of the six movies we've released so far. Fourth, if you're counting the pilot episode from patreon. Total score, 68.

That is criminally low.

It is very low. But damn it, the audacity wasn't there and the heart wasn't in it.

No, and I will fully agree with us saying that still.

And also technically very competent to put this together in the limited time they had. Very impressive.

What a movie. Damn it. This was a good one, folks. You got to watch Giant Claw. This is a fun one.

Definitely. Go check out the Giant Claw when you have the opportunity. Just have 75 short minutes to spare. Hook that up on YouTube. Have a blast.

But now we need to talk about what we're talking about in a fortnight's time, two weeks from now, April 15. What's next on the agenda?

So I asked our AI friend to pick the next movie again for us. I said, these are the movies talked about so far. We just talked about the Giant Claw. Big high five to you, AI for giving us that one.

What you got next and what it has next has me so excited.

Oh, I shivering with anticipation.

The stuff.

Do you want me to read you the tagline that's on the poster for the movie.

I would love to hear that.

All of it.

Sure.

It says warning. If you see the stuff in stores, call the police. If you have it in your home, don't touch it. Get out.

The stuff is a product of nature, a deadly living organism. It is addictive and destructive. It can overcome your mind and take over your body and nothing can stop it. You know, rolls off the thong.

Yeah, totally. When you said the tagline, I expected like, you know, six, seven words. That's.

It just kept going. It just kept going and going, going. Bryan, Dessert. About to fuck some people up, I think. I've never seen this stuff.

I'm very excited. I know nothing about the stuff, but I anticipate based on just a quick Google image search, this is going to be a lot of fun.

But until then, thank you for hanging out with us, for watching our movies, for listening to us talk about our our nonsense. Be sure to rate, review, subscribe, share. That way we can get in front of more ears.

Join us on Patreon patreon.com Caped podcasters still for now, I don't know. We're working on it. We got our discord in the show notes.

You can follow that link and join us for our Monday night midnight movie at 10pm because you know, we're old, we have lives. Can't do midnight movies on a Monday. We got work on Tuesday.

Do you know how happy I was when I saw the giant claw was only 75 minutes long? And I went, you're saying I can be in bed before midnight? This is fantastic.

Beautiful thing. You can follow us on social media at B Movie Boys and you can email us B MovieBoys pod@gmail.com.

Bryan, you got anything else?

That is it for me.

Fantastic. Thank you all again for listening. Thank you so much for hanging out with us.

It has been so much fun watching movies with you and talking about movies with you and then going down these insane B movie rabbit holes where the production seems to be always more interesting the actual movie. And I'm loving it.

Yeah, that seems to be the case more often than not.

Well, we're gonna find out if we keep that streak alive in two weeks time when we talk about the stuff. But until then, good journey. Sa.