Here's one that's notoriety is more for its title than the actual film within, and once you get by the pleasing drive-in moniker you'll soon be bored off your ass by a movie that can't even live up to a "so bad, it's good" title.

The story of the film is in fact more interesting than the actual movie as it first started its life as Madmen Of Mandoras. After being picked up by Crown International (who if you're a B-movie fan you'll recognize the name) the company went and hired some UCLA students to film new footage which is jarring edited into it to bring the running time up to an overlong 92 minutes (television cuts and prior releases ran 74 minutes, thanks to Rhino we get 18 minutes more pain).

There's not a lick of sense in this one as the plot has to do with an invention of a nerve gas called "G-gas" (and it's antidote "Pam", which made cooking jokes run through my head the entire movie I was so bored) which is soon being sought out by a small group of surviving Nazis who want to use it for their own dastardly plans. In fact the Nazis are getting their orders from the disembodied head of Hitler who's been placed into a huge tube-like jar. It's up to a couple of government agents to track down Adolf and his cronies to the Spanish island of Mandoras and stop them from getting the deadly gas.

Sure the entire thing is completely bizarre thanks to the aforementioned cut 'n' paste editing and there are enough groanable moments (which I will mention in a second) to chuckle at; but this is so far from the horror/sci-fi cheesiness I was expecting and it plays more like a really bad spy thriller than anything.

Completely unwatchable but if you must you at least get to see a laughable car crash into some electrical generators, Nazis who look so very un-German (and the fact they managed to have the swastika in the movie incorrect), our hero smacking his girlfriend to stop her from freaking out, Hitler's fancy carry strap for his jar, and the fact we get to see poor Adolf (well at least his wax head stand-in) meltdown in the finale thanks to a well placed grenade toss.

There's bottom-of-the-barrel - and then there's this. (Chris Hartley, 12/25/04)

Directed By: David Bradley.
Written By: Richard Miles.

Starring: Audrey Caire, Walter Stocker, Carlos Rivas, John Holland.

aka: Amazing Mr. H; Madmen Of Mandoras.