History Film / MonsterAGoGo

* InformedAttribute: The corpse of the monster's first victim is described as being horribly burned and "shriveled up like a dried prune", but doesn't look like either, instead just looking perfectly normal.

* InformedAttribute: The corpse of the monster's first victim is described as being horribly burned and "shriveled up like a dried prune", but doesn't look like either, instead just looking perfectly normal.

* NoEnding: [[spoiler:There was no monster.]] This chain of events is also never explained properly, making what was supposed to be a shocking TwistEnding turn into a huge PlotHole.

* AWizardDidIt: Invoked by the ending speech, in which the narrator seems to imply that some vague cosmic force, "[[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm eons beyond our comprehension]]" [[RealityWarper screwed around with reality]] so that the entire plot of the movie effectively [[CosmicRetcon never happened]], (although some of the characters' memories, and all of the actions they took in response to the now non-existent monster, seem to remain unaltered).

* AWizardDidIt: Invoked by the ending speech, in which the narrator seems to imply that some vague cosmic force, "[[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm eons beyond our comprehension]]" [[RealityWarper screwed around with reality]] so that the entire plot of the movie effectively [[CosmicRetcon never happened]], (although the characters' memories, and all of the actions they took in response to the now non-existent monster, still remain unaltered).

* AWizardDidIt: Invoked by the ending speech, in which the narrator seems to imply that some vague cosmic force, "[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm eons beyond our comprehension]" [[RealityWarper screwed around with reality]] so that the entire plot of the movie effectively [[CosmicRetcon never happened]], (although the characters' memories, and all of the actions they took in response to the now non-existent monster, still remain unaltered).

!!This film provides examples of:

* BlatantLies: [[UnreliableNarrator Anything the narrator says.]]

* WhamLine: Not in a good way.

->As if a switch had been turned, as if an eye had been blinked, as if some phantom force in the universe had made a move eons beyond our comprehension, suddenly, there was no Wiki/TVTropes page.

-->'''Narrator:''' As if a switch had been turned, as if an eye had been blinked, as if some phantom force in the universe had made a move eons beyond our comprehension, suddenly, there was no trail! There was no giant, no monster, no thing called "Douglas" to be followed. There was nothing in the tunnel but the puzzled men of courage, who suddenly found themselves alone with shadows and darkness! With the telegram, one cloud lifts, and another descends. Astronaut Frank Douglas, rescued, alive, well, and of normal size, some eight thousand miles away in a lifeboat, with no memory of where he has been, or how he was separated from his capsule! Then who, or what, has landed here? Is it here yet? Or has the cosmic switch been pulled? Case in point: The line between science fiction and science fact is microscopically thin! You have witnessed the line being shaved even thinner! But is the menace with us? Or is the monster gone?

* GainaxEnding: Thanks to a plot twist that was supposed to be TheEndingChangesEverything but only managed to make absolutely no sense of whatever happened. All one might comprehend was that the monster just dematerialized to escape its pursuers and it wasn't really Douglas to begin with.

* {{Jerkass}}: Dr. Carl. Talks to the wife of the mission's pilot about how well a mission went when ''the pilot didn't come back alive'', instructs a mother not to tell her son that his stepfather is dead, and inexplicably disappears before doing anything useful. And he promised the kid they'd go out for milkshakes before vanishing while the kid is out of the room. Considering the quality of this movie, vanishing from it might make Dr. Carl a KarmaHoudini.

* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The "climax" of the film is just an endless series of shots of trucks driving around, people running cable, and the like, with no dialogue or plot to speak of. Considering we don't see any of the main characters in most of the shots,[[note]]Shooting ended when Rebane ran out of money, and a second producer added stuff later without the original actors[[/note]] it's highly likely they just took a bunch of StockFootage and used it to pad out the runtime.

* NeverTrustATitle: There is a very very ''very'' brief moment of go go dancers at the very beginning, but you have to imagine anyone not making out with their girlfriend at the drive-in felt profoundly ripped off. It turns out, though, not only are there no go-go dancers, there's also no monster.

Describe ''Monster a-Go Go'' here:\\

In 1965, director Creator/HerschellGordonLewis needed another movie to round out a double-feature with ''Moonshine Mountain''. So he bought Bill (''Film/TheGiantSpiderInvasion'') Rebane's unfinished ''Terror at Halfday'', added a couple of extra scenes, some new dialogue, some narration, and voilà: ''Monster a-Go Go'' was born. (The birth was illegitimate, as Lewis [[AlanSmithee did not deign to put his name on the movie]], instead crediting himself by the pseudonym "Sheldon S. Seymour.")

* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The "climax" of the film is just an endless series of shots of trucks driving around, people running cable, and the like, with no dialogue or plot to speak of. Considering we don't see any of the main characters in most of the shots, it's highly likely they just took a bunch of StockFootage and used it to pad out the runtime.

* NeverTrustATitle: There is a very very ''very'' brief moment of go go dancers at the very beginning, but you have to imagine anyone not making out with their girlfriend at the drive-in felt profoundly ripped off. It turns out, though, not only is there no go go dancers, there's also no monster.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Used to HandWave about why one Dr. Logan is similar to his brother that disappeared without a trace from the earlier part of the plot (in reality the same actor filmed several years apart and having changed a lot in the meanwhile).

* GainaxEnding: Thanks to a plot twist that was supposed to be TheEndingChangesEverything but only managed to make absolutely no sense of whatever happened.
** All one might comprehend was that the monster just dematerialized to escape its pursuers and it wasn't really Douglas to begin with.

Describe ''Film/MonsterAGoGo'' here:\\

** All one might comprehend was that the monster just dematerialized to escape it's persuers and it wasn't really Douglas to begin with.

* NoOntologicalInertia: When the monster [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext just disappears suddenly]] all the characters tracking it seem to immediately forget what they were doing, and the narrator even describes them as "puzzled men of courage"

* ObviousBeta: [[invoked]]As mentioned in the description, writer/producer Creator/HerschellGordonLewis wanted a cheap movie to round out a double feature he was producing, so he bought a half finished film reel out of DevelopmentHell, filmed a couple of extra scenes, and called it a day. How bad is it? Well, the original had run out of money just before they could shoot the climax, and Lewis was too cheap to shoot one himself, so instead he just gave it a {{Mind Screw}}y NothingIsScarier [[NoEnding Non-Ending]] with the narrator literally cutting in to say that actually the entire movie was a lie and there was no monster. Lewis actually refused to put his name on it, instead crediting himself as [[AlanSmithee Sheldon S. Seymour]] (and then also changed his production designer credit... to [[SdrawkcabName Seymour S. Sheldon]]). When people found out he made it anyway he claimed [[ParodyRetcon the movie was meant to be a satire]].

* BloodlessCarnage: The horribly mutilated corpses are in fact completely intact.

* SensoryAbuse: The film's score consists mainly of sparse, jangly {{Scare Chord}}s played on a Fender Rhodes and amplified to distortion; it's atonal, harsh, and probably meant to be creepy, but just gets annoying after a while. The composer/musician responsible is uncredited, perhaps out of to shame.

In 1965, director Creator/HerschellGordonLewis needed another movie to round out a double-feature with ''Moonshine Mountain''. So he bought Bill (''Film/TheGiantSpiderInvasion'') Rebane's unfinished ''Terror at Halfday'', added a couple of extra scenes, some new dialogue, some narration, and voilà: ''Monster a-Go Go'' was born. (The birth was illegitimate, as Lewis[[AlanSmithee did not deign to put his name on the movie]], instead crediting himself by the pseudonym "Sheldon S. Seymour.")

* ObviousBeta: As mentioned in the description, writer/producer H.G. Lewis wanted a cheap movie to round out a double feature he was producing, so he bought a half finished film reel out of Development Hell, filmed a couple of extra scenes, and called it a day. How bad is it? Well, the original had run out of money just before they could shoot the climax, and Lewis was too cheap to shoot one himself, so instead he just gave it a {{Mind Screw}}y NothingIsScarier [[NoEnding Non-Ending]] with the narrator literally cutting in to say that actually the entire movie was a lie and there was no monster. Lewis actually refused to put his name on it, instead crediting himself as [[AlanSmithee Sheldon S. Seymour]] (and then also changed his production designer credit... to [[SdrawkcabName Seymour S. Sheldon]]). When people found out he made it anyway he claimed [[ParodyRetcon it was meant to be a joke]].