So Close...

So The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues had all the right elements for a classic piece of crap in the tradition of Ed Wood's swell films: bad acting, horrible dialogue, an incomprehensible plot, and, of course, a cheesy monster. So what went wrong? Not enough cheesy monster. The scenes with the cheesy monster were great -- but I guess the filmmakers only rented the monster suit for a single day of filming because the ol' atomic mutant's screen time was probably about two minutes total. And even though the dialogue was dopey enough to rival Ed's, it still gets yawn-inducing without some monster action to break it up. Still, not a bad $4 investment, and I'll probably still have to make some of you watch it, too.