eye.Of course, all these years later the entire concept of the closet and it's representation of repressed homosexuality just adds another wonderful layer to the satire.This one really deserves more kudos!

my psyche and killed so many of my friends. I wonder if this was Donald Grant's fate. If you know otherwise, please tell me. I don't know; I can only speculate.I thought the movie was hilarious. I loved Howard Duff playing a priest! On first viewing I wondered whether the Alien monster copied Troma's monster until I looked it up and found that Alien preceded Monsters in the Closet by 7 yrs. So we know wink, wink who was copying who. This movie is very enjoyable and especially if you have Amazon Prime where you can see it for free.....WATCH IT! Luvs all of ya.

witty and affectionate parody of choice cheesy 50's low-budget creature features that unfolds at a constant brisk pace, maintains an amiable tongue-in-cheek tone from start to finish, and possesses a certain sweet-natured sensibility that's impossible to either hate or resist. Moreover, Dahlin tosses in a pleasant romance between the two appealing leads for good measure and in an amusing twist on the standard genre convention makes the monster gay so it can abduct the male star instead of the female main character. The game cast have a field day with the blithely goofy material, with especially stand-out work from Claude Atkins as the hard-nosed Sheriff Sam Ketchum, Howard Duff as sensitive and devoutly religious priest Father Finnegan, Donald Moffat as the gung-ho, profanity-spewing General Trumbull, Jesse White as crusty newspaper editor Ben, and Frank Ashmore as Richard's slick'n'smarmy rival Scoop. Popping up in nifty bits are Paul Dooley, John Carradine as a cranky cane-slinging old blind guy , and the ever-lovely Stella Stevens in a nice send-up of the famous shower scene from "Psycho" . Ronald W. McLeish's polished cinematography boasts plenty of snazzy zoom-in close-ups and smooth tracking shots. Barrie Guard's perfectly cornball hum'n'shiver score does the robustly generic trick. An immensely enjoyable romp.