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Isaac Paskual rating:
7
Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Horror. Adventure Robert Vaughn stars as a white 35 year old teenage caveman with styled hair who seeks to discover what is in the uncharted jungles beyond his tribe's campsite. It is against the Word (and the Word is the Law), but he breaks it anyway. Soon he discovers a strange creature which kills with its touch. We later learn that this is not a prehistoric tale, but a post-apocalyptic tale, and the strange creature is a 500-plus year old irradiated ... [+]
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March 4, 2021
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"Yo fui un cavernícola adolescente" (1958): loquísima —en todos los sentidos— aventura prehistórica a modo de survival, teñido de kaiju movie, y con arrogantes aires de incipiente peplum. Por no mencionar cuando a Roger Corman le da el ramalazo y se pone en plan M. Night Shyamalan, con un genial y desconcertante plot twist final sci-fi a modo de relectura total de la obra, capaz de anticipar el gran highlight que luciría "El planeta de los simios" (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968) diez años más tarde, inspirándose a su vez en una novela de 1963 también toreada por Corman
Lo dicho, pieza a reivindicar.
Isaac Paskual
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