I was 5 years old when my older siblings showed me this move. And it made me afraid of the dark. When i finally was able to watch it again 10+ years later i found it so sweet and i laughed at the fact that it had impacted me so much as a kid.
This is what I really love about your channel. Obscure creature features and monster movies. Born in 1980 I grew up with gremlins critters ghost busters screamers killer clowns from out space the evil dead trilogy tremors aliens the thing jaws. Then there were quite a few really good made for TV scifi monster creature features and end of the world nuclear war movies from that decade. Geez I think I may have grown up in the real Golden Age of cinema!
Man, to think that you got all that by being born in 1980. You are really lucky. It's highly unusual for people NOT born in 1980 to have watched those movies.
Geez, I haven't seen this in probably 25 or 30 years, but I freakin' loved it! Just fun, fun, fun. It's delightfully silly and perfectly self-aware with an amazing cast of awesome character actors that are obviously all having a ball. I'm going to have get me a copy of this. My taste has been whetted.
Oh man, I saw this, rented it back in the day…so weird every now and again I’ll find something on UA-cam about a film I had forgotten about and it brings back memories of these strange forgotten movies!…
I love this movie, Troma jumpstarted alot of careers, if it wasn't for Llyod helping to produce Rocky, i doubt it would be where it's at today. James Gunn still cameo's Lloyd Kaufman in all his Marvel movies, they helped kickstart his career too with Tromeo and Juliet, he was even in Toxie 4 as the Stephen Hawkings satire.
I love this movie. It's a secret gem, up there with Rawhead Rex and a few others that for decades have been secret pleasures of only the most knowledgeable creature costumes and deep diving horror movie fans.
Just watching the clips you showed made me genuinely laugh. 'Destroy all closets!' *BASH BASH BASH/ Karate KICK* That cutaway was very stupid and funny. Dick Clark's glasses falling off and charming the monster is also very funny and unexpected. Seems like one of the best horror comedies I've never watched (and I will have to change that)
Same, it's funny watching movies like this back years later and seeing how goofy and bad they are. With this one I think it was more the idea of a monster in your closet that was the scary part rather than the movie itself.
@@justanothernobody7142 Yea I agree. This movie had me push my bed up against my closet at 7. It didn’t help that much that my closet was connected to my sisters room and she loved tormenting me by pretending to be a monsters on the other side of the door.
@@Kjholiday1017 We were both traumatized by closets then it seems :D For me around the time I watched this movie my parents had just bought a big creepy old house to try and renovate. On one of the floors the bathroom was at the end of a long narrow hallway with a faulty light fitting so there was no light, half way along the hallway was a closet. I always had visions of the monster grabbing me as I passed it.
a Troma Entertainment movie, with Kevin Peter Hall(Without Warning, Predator 1 & 2, Harry and the Hendersons) as the Closet Monster, with early roles for Paul Walker(Fast and the Furious) and Stacey Ferguson as well
@@DavidRoarty Around this time the late great Kevin Peter Hall also did a guest spot on Night Court and co-star in one of my favorite sci-fi/superhero series The Misfits Of Science. Paul Walker first role before being in the sitcom Throb and Stacey Ferguson before starting in Kids Incorporated.
I remember this movie from my childhood, I would pass of TV from time to time, but I always only got to see the ending, the part where they destroy the closets.
Holy crap, I remember seeing this when I was a kid. I had completely forgotten about it, but that monster face brought back a whole rush of memories. I gotta re-watch this.
Yeah, the monster falling in love with Dick (boy, *that* sounded appropriately dirty!) at the end is an obvious "coming out of the closet" joke. If you want to get extra meta about it, notice how once the monster becomes so openly smitten with Dick, the monster suddenly finds himself in a situation where he can no longer go back into the closet.
The scientist trying to communicate through music was straight out of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" where they communicate with the aliens through musical tones and movements
I have never forgotten or will ever forget about this movie. I watched this movie on public TV at 5pm right after school, and I was afraid of being alive for over two weeks. it took me years to rewatch it and see it for what it really was: a comedy
I didn't have my glasses on and I thought the creature was Rawhead Rex and I was so excited. 😂 I was pleasantly surprised to find that this is another great B movie I'm going to have to find!
I watched this movie as a kid and even back then, it cracked me up lol I remember a scene where a lady fell on the ground and the monster started walking torwards her at like 0.0000001 m/s. Even if she crawled, she'd still be faster, but she just kept screaming lol
I've been looking for this movie for almost 30yrs. This movie was weird and wild. It was funny how the Dr communicated with the monster with the xylophone and the monster ended up killing him while trying to communicate with him. Funny and scary is what Troma did best.
This was a dumb movie and I loved it. Monster design is awesome but omg the tropes and cliches that poke fun at in this is hilarious. I was a kid I think maybe early teenager when I saw this and I was confused with the glasses plot point it wasn’t till years later when I got into Superman that I now realize it was a Clark Kent joke they were making fun of. Awesome video as always.
I saw this on USA Up All Night when I was 12 years old back in 1991. I think about it at least once a year. It’s one of my favorite movies from my childhood.
Thats Arty Johnson from Laugh-In a the scientist. And I love how they paraphrased the famous last words in King Kong. "It wasn't the closet, it was beauty that killed the beast!"
I forgot about this movie lol. I randomly found it at our local rental store when I was in elementary school. I watched it like 3 times that weekend lol
This movie had my favorite newspaper review of all time that eviscerated it. "The minutes seem to tick away endlessly; you start counting backward from 10,000, desperate for ways to pass the time...."
When I was growing up I remember seeing the VHS tape at our local video rental place. The cover had a closet door with a monster hand, which I thought was awesome. It seemed like a story I would have written at the time, as a child. Eventually I got my parents to rent the video. I remember basically nothing that happened in it though.
As a fan of special effects and creature movies, I can't believe I have never heard of this one, or even seen the monster design. Thanks for the heads up.
I still have this on VHS lol. Have most every low budget horror movie ever on VHS & they're all stored away in a special made room specifically for em & still fetch one every so often.
I remember renting this on VHS back in the day and I recall the xylophone being used as a communication tool - still can hear the tune! I wasn't frightened watching it (I had already been scarred by the American werewolf in London - nothing came close to that!)
Haha. Thank you for sharing. It looks familiar but I want to see it now. I wonder if Chestnut Hill is a play on the Chestnut Ridge invasion? But I recognized Claude Akins and the army General I believe was in the Thing
It's time for Vinegar Syndrome to take care of this! I saw this the first time when I was about ten or so, it's so much silly fun and such a great send off of 1950s monster movies!
Stacy Ferguson, in the eighties, was on a Disney variety show Kids Incorporated. She was tiny and had an amazing voice. I used to watch for the covers of pop songs.
I remember as a kid wanting to rent this movie SO MUCH, but my parents never wanted to rent me any horror movies.. For my 12th Birthday, my dad finally said "Ok, we'll rent a horror movie if you want!", so I ran to get Monster in the Closet, and he looked at the box and said "No, if we're going to watch a horror movie, we're going to watch a GOOD horror movie", and he rented The Thing instead. Which, well, yeah that was traumatizing in the best way possible.. But it wasn't for another 3-4 years before I would end up renting Monster in the Closet, and it's been a favorite ever since!
I just recently watched this movie the first time since '87. I used to sneak into the living room after my parents went to bed, to watch horror and scifi movies in secret as a kid. I remember fearing slightly ajar closet doors for a good while, though having seen House a little earlier probably didn't help.
That's pretty cool that Paul Walker was in this movie. Did you know Paul had bad dandruff? After the wreck they found his Head and Shoulders in the glovebox.
Looks like the monster from Howard The Duck! I remember seeing the VHS in the store, but I never added it to my "rent five for five days" grab from the video store.
I saw when I was 17 on one of local St Louis channels for Halloween along with Toxic Avenger one and two. I recorded it on tape and still have it. I should really upgrade to DVD and Blu-ray now. But I remember laughing when I saw it.
Holy shit, I've been thinking about this movie for so many years and had no idea how to even start looking it up, and I can't believe this video somehow ended up in my Recommendeds! The only things I could remember about it were the xylophone and a guy looking like Clark Kent. Thanks for this video!
3:30 so basically the end of Man of Steel: 35 uninterrupted minutes of people throwing each other through walls without noticing the other guy clearly isn't hurt.
The thumbnail made me think of Raw Head Rex. It’s another little known monster movie from the 80s based on a short story from Clive Barker. Effects are dated but it’s a pretty creepy movie still. Always wished they remade a modern version as I thought it was as good a horror film as his Hellraiser movies.
it's funny to see how things are different in each country, In Brazil, this movie was super famous, mostly 'cause it kept popping up on TV all the time
"it was beauty that killed the beast."
LMAO, that line dilevery....
So they found a way to kill the monster in the end?
Clark Kents looks was a kryptonite to the monster. It was the only weapon to kill the monster.. 💥🥴😂
It's funny how absolutely everything about this movie made sense when he said the word Troma.
HOLY CRAP!!!!! I THOUGHT I IMAGINED THIS MOVIE AS A KID!!!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Seriously, thank you so much.
I was 5 years old when my older siblings showed me this move. And it made me afraid of the dark. When i finally was able to watch it again 10+ years later i found it so sweet and i laughed at the fact that it had impacted me so much as a kid.
It's Alive did it to me.
Thankfully you see that move it wasn't something to be afraid off.
I remember watching this movie as a kid and it scaring me too. 🤣
Scary movies toughen little kids up... like sore muscles after a workout.
Destroy All Closets!!!
This is one of my favorites that I love to spring on my friends!
This is what I really love about your channel. Obscure creature features and monster movies. Born in 1980 I grew up with gremlins critters ghost busters screamers killer clowns from out space the evil dead trilogy tremors aliens the thing jaws. Then there were quite a few really good made for TV scifi monster creature features and end of the world nuclear war movies from that decade. Geez I think I may have grown up in the real Golden Age of cinema!
Man, to think that you got all that by being born in 1980. You are really lucky. It's highly unusual for people NOT born in 1980 to have watched those movies.
Damn "screamers" 😂 classic
Frank Ashmore!!! "What's our vector, Victor?"
That was him?! Holy shit
Geez, I haven't seen this in probably 25 or 30 years, but I freakin' loved it! Just fun, fun, fun. It's delightfully silly and perfectly self-aware with an amazing cast of awesome character actors that are obviously all having a ball. I'm going to have get me a copy of this. My taste has been whetted.
Oh man, I saw this, rented it back in the day…so weird every now and again I’ll find something on UA-cam about a film I had forgotten about and it brings back memories of these strange forgotten movies!…
My Troma-loving friend showed me this movie expecting me to groan, but I was impressed that it was a delightful, fun movie.
Remember watching this movie on cable in the 90s thousand times lol it was pure fun! 😁
I love this movie, Troma jumpstarted alot of careers, if it wasn't for Llyod helping to produce Rocky, i doubt it would be where it's at today. James Gunn still cameo's Lloyd Kaufman in all his Marvel movies, they helped kickstart his career too with Tromeo and Juliet, he was even in Toxie 4 as the Stephen Hawkings satire.
I love this movie. It's a secret gem, up there with Rawhead Rex and a few others that for decades have been secret pleasures of only the most knowledgeable creature costumes and deep diving horror movie fans.
Wait, Rawhead rex ? Is that the Clive Barker short story mate
Oh, not sure on that, but check it out! @@garycargill64
Rawhead rex was awesome,as well as the book
That movie scared the shit out of me. Adverb the kid goes to take a leak and gets eaten. I was terrified to pull over and piss for years.
Yes!! 'Rawhead Rex' and 'Pumpkinhead' is a great double-"header"... I bought both movies way back and on occasion, watched them back-to-back.
When I saw the samurai hacking away at his closet, I knew this was the movie for me.
Just watching the clips you showed made me genuinely laugh. 'Destroy all closets!' *BASH BASH BASH/ Karate KICK* That cutaway was very stupid and funny. Dick Clark's glasses falling off and charming the monster is also very funny and unexpected. Seems like one of the best horror comedies I've never watched (and I will have to change that)
I swear to God, that cutaway gag to the samurai destroying his walls is straight out of Naked Gun
This movie traumatized me as a kid 😂😂😂. It’s kinda crazy seeing as an adult it cracks me up.
Same, it's funny watching movies like this back years later and seeing how goofy and bad they are. With this one I think it was more the idea of a monster in your closet that was the scary part rather than the movie itself.
@@justanothernobody7142 Yea I agree. This movie had me push my bed up against my closet at 7. It didn’t help that much that my closet was connected to my sisters room and she loved tormenting me by pretending to be a monsters on the other side of the door.
@@Kjholiday1017 We were both traumatized by closets then it seems :D For me around the time I watched this movie my parents had just bought a big creepy old house to try and renovate. On one of the floors the bathroom was at the end of a long narrow hallway with a faulty light fitting so there was no light, half way along the hallway was a closet. I always had visions of the monster grabbing me as I passed it.
a Troma Entertainment movie, with Kevin Peter Hall(Without Warning, Predator 1 & 2, Harry and the Hendersons) as the Closet Monster, with early roles for Paul Walker(Fast and the Furious) and Stacey Ferguson as well
@@DavidRoarty Around this time the late great Kevin Peter Hall also did a guest spot on Night Court and co-star in one of my favorite sci-fi/superhero series The Misfits Of Science. Paul Walker first role before being in the sitcom Throb and Stacey Ferguson before starting in Kids Incorporated.
I remember this movie from my childhood, I would pass of TV from time to time, but I always only got to see the ending, the part where they destroy the closets.
I remember my brother and I watching this when I was younger. We had a blast.
I actually remember watching this movie as a kid, but mostly just the monster design and not the story 😆
Ayyyyy hahah thanks for credit ma dude! Glad you enjoyed it and now the rest of UA-cam can have this live in their heads rent free 😂
I recorded this review nearly a year ago and forgot to release it! I was going over the movie today and laughing 😂 great recommendation man!
Holy crap, I remember seeing this when I was a kid. I had completely forgotten about it, but that monster face brought back a whole rush of memories. I gotta re-watch this.
Yeah, the monster falling in love with Dick (boy, *that* sounded appropriately dirty!) at the end is an obvious "coming out of the closet" joke. If you want to get extra meta about it, notice how once the monster becomes so openly smitten with Dick, the monster suddenly finds himself in a situation where he can no longer go back into the closet.
Wowww!!!!! I haven't seen this film in years!!!!! Gonna tap in and watch it again soon. Thanks for uncovering this crazy gem lol.
The scientist trying to communicate through music was straight out of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" where they communicate with the aliens through musical tones and movements
It also reminded me of the original Thing (with James Arness), when the scientist went up to The Thing trying to communicate with it.
I have never forgotten or will ever forget about this movie. I watched this movie on public TV at 5pm right after school, and I was afraid of being alive for over two weeks. it took me years to rewatch it and see it for what it really was: a comedy
Keep the obscure creature features & horror films coming. They're great.
I love that little sound in your intro with your logo..very nostalgic whatever that means LOL
5:01 They'll just make any idiot a scientist
Keep them coming man. Love Dragoncurve grind you've been doing. 🦈
I love that the monster looks like the result of a gorilla having a one night stand with the Almighty Sarlacc pit.
Now that I know it's a Troma film, the title and........certain sequences in the movie make a LOT more sense
I didn't have my glasses on and I thought the creature was Rawhead Rex and I was so excited. 😂 I was pleasantly surprised to find that this is another great B movie I'm going to have to find!
The Rancor.
You didn't have your glasses on? THE MONSTER wants your location! ❤😂
Wow. I remember this one. Still not as scary as that chapter in "Amazing Stories" with the mother and creature from her child's story book.
I think this is scarier than The Greibble the one is more scarier is The Grither.
I remember watching this movie as a child, thinking the guy with glasses was Christopher Reeve.
Seen almost every Troma movie, highly recommend them. 👌
i randomly found this on amazon a few weeks ago and watched it with my kid, she loved it lol
F-ng love Troma. Thanks for exposing me to this gem; it's free on UA-cam so, heeeeere we go!
That sheriff was Claud Atkins, known as Sheriff Lobo and from the TV series BJ and the Bear.
It's been forever since I've seen this movie. It's on Tubi and on my list to rewatch. Maybe I'll do that later today.
I watched this movie as a kid and even back then, it cracked me up lol I remember a scene where a lady fell on the ground and the monster started walking torwards her at like 0.0000001 m/s. Even if she crawled, she'd still be faster, but she just kept screaming lol
I've been looking for this movie for almost 30yrs. This movie was weird and wild. It was funny how the Dr communicated with the monster with the xylophone and the monster ended up killing him while trying to communicate with him. Funny and scary is what Troma did best.
Yeah this closet monster movie gave me nightmares big time back then. Thanks for dredging up the pain.
My brother had this Poster in his room for years.
This was a dumb movie and I loved it. Monster design is awesome but omg the tropes and cliches that poke fun at in this is hilarious. I was a kid I think maybe early teenager when I saw this and I was confused with the glasses plot point it wasn’t till years later when I got into Superman that I now realize it was a Clark Kent joke they were making fun of. Awesome video as always.
So that's Mr. "Double A - Honk, Honk - M - C - O". Man, as a kid I enjoyed seeing his kindly older face on my TV, like a grandfatherly figure.
Thanks for this, remembered the movie but forgot the name been decades
I saw this on USA Up All Night when I was 12 years old back in 1991. I think about it at least once a year. It’s one of my favorite movies from my childhood.
Ah the main thing I remember is the cat scare. The slight 'miaow' when the cat ran away had us laughing for ages
Thats Arty Johnson from Laugh-In a the scientist. And I love how they paraphrased the famous last words in King Kong. "It wasn't the closet, it was beauty that killed the beast!"
I forgot about this movie lol. I randomly found it at our local rental store when I was in elementary school. I watched it like 3 times that weekend lol
This movie had my favorite newspaper review of all time that eviscerated it. "The minutes seem to tick away endlessly; you start counting backward from 10,000, desperate for ways to pass the time...."
When I was growing up I remember seeing the VHS tape at our local video rental place. The cover had a closet door with a monster hand, which I thought was awesome. It seemed like a story I would have written at the time, as a child. Eventually I got my parents to rent the video. I remember basically nothing that happened in it though.
As a fan of special effects and creature movies, I can't believe I have never heard of this one, or even seen the monster design. Thanks for the heads up.
Man, this could go right up there with Killer Klowns and Chopping Mall. I need to see it.
I still have this on VHS lol. Have most every low budget horror movie ever on VHS & they're all stored away in a special made room specifically for em & still fetch one every so often.
I remember renting this on VHS back in the day and I recall the xylophone being used as a communication tool - still can hear the tune! I wasn't frightened watching it (I had already been scarred by the American werewolf in London - nothing came close to that!)
That werewolf still scares the shit out of me!
@@jamalsoward8404 IKR! Once you've seen that everything else is rather tame by comparison!
@@Fifury161 what?!
5:53 It is totally a joke about that. Don't believe me? Go watch the trailer for the movie. The last moments of that make it perfectly clear.
Gotta love self explanatory movie titles 😂
The title Monster in the closet just gives me flashbacks to the vampire from Lost Tapes
This is a great movie! Absolutely hilarious, though it's hard to tell if that was intentional or coincidental.
I think I'll wait until it comes out on DVD.
Thanks a lot. I had forgotten about that movie. Now I have to start all over again
Haha. Thank you for sharing. It looks familiar but I want to see it now. I wonder if Chestnut Hill is a play on the Chestnut Ridge invasion? But I recognized Claude Akins and the army General I believe was in the Thing
It's time for Vinegar Syndrome to take care of this! I saw this the first time when I was about ten or so, it's so much silly fun and such a great send off of 1950s monster movies!
Lol I read the title and thought not me, I think about this crazy child memory scaring movie often, thanks, lol!
Judging from his filmography John Carradine accepted every role he was offered, with the philosophy that "hey whiskey ain't free".
"I Come In Peace" is another 80's unknown that actually had a good interesting premise.
Not me, I love this movie. The monster swooning over the guy's handsomeness cracks me up every time.
I was telling a friend about this movie and I said if you ever want to see a young Paul Walker in glasses this is your movie.
Stacy Ferguson, in the eighties, was on a Disney variety show Kids Incorporated. She was tiny and had an amazing voice. I used to watch for the covers of pop songs.
I remember as a kid wanting to rent this movie SO MUCH, but my parents never wanted to rent me any horror movies.. For my 12th Birthday, my dad finally said "Ok, we'll rent a horror movie if you want!", so I ran to get Monster in the Closet, and he looked at the box and said "No, if we're going to watch a horror movie, we're going to watch a GOOD horror movie", and he rented The Thing instead. Which, well, yeah that was traumatizing in the best way possible.. But it wasn't for another 3-4 years before I would end up renting Monster in the Closet, and it's been a favorite ever since!
3:15 I was wonderin' when El Capitan was gonna get a chance to use his grenade.
Saw this as a kid in elementary school at a birthday sleepover. It gave me nightmares and a deep mistrust of closets!
Oh god, I remember this being covered on GoodBadFlicks
I just recently watched this movie the first time since '87.
I used to sneak into the living room after my parents went to bed, to watch horror and scifi movies in secret as a kid.
I remember fearing slightly ajar closet doors for a good while, though having seen House a little earlier probably didn't help.
Heeyy! One I haven't heard of! I was wondering when you'd cover one I didn't know about.
The second you said it was a Troma movie, I 100% understood what was going on.
I remember this movie! As a result, to this day I can NOT sleep if the closet door isn't completely closed.
I NEED to watch that with my friends!
I feel like I just got hit with a baseball bat made out of nostalgia. I haven't thought about this movie in 30 years.
Kevin Peter Hall was also the alien in Without Warning(1980). Sadly he passed at only 35 in 1991(AIDS).
That's pretty cool that Paul Walker was in this movie. Did you know Paul had bad dandruff? After the wreck they found his Head and Shoulders in the glovebox.
Actaully, Stacy Ferguson made her first influence in 'Kids, Incorporated' (1984). Nice to see Frank Ashmore getting work.
I remember this movie! God, I don't even remember the last time I even saw a reference to it.
Looks like the monster from Howard The Duck! I remember seeing the VHS in the store, but I never added it to my "rent five for five days" grab from the video store.
3:53
There’s a joke that wouldn’t fly today.
I saw when I was 17 on one of local St Louis channels for Halloween along with Toxic Avenger one and two. I recorded it on tape and still have it. I should really upgrade to DVD and Blu-ray now. But I remember laughing when I saw it.
My favorite 1986 underrated horror film is: ‘Invaders from Mars’. Man, what an awesome movie that was!
Oh a classic! Used to scare me though haha
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😊 And Happy Holidays
Holy shit, I've been thinking about this movie for so many years and had no idea how to even start looking it up, and I can't believe this video somehow ended up in my Recommendeds! The only things I could remember about it were the xylophone and a guy looking like Clark Kent. Thanks for this video!
This was such a good 80s odd monster movie! I agree with the monster effects and design. But it's a really goofy movie! It's fun to watch.... once.
I love the Clark Kent glasses reveal moment
3:30 so basically the end of Man of Steel: 35 uninterrupted minutes of people throwing each other through walls without noticing the other guy clearly isn't hurt.
The thumbnail made me think of Raw Head Rex. It’s another little known monster movie from the 80s based on a short story from Clive Barker.
Effects are dated but it’s a pretty creepy movie still. Always wished they remade a modern version as I thought it was as good a horror film as his Hellraiser movies.
I don't know why but the look of the monster reminds me of the vietnam veteran from "From dusk to dawn" after he turns into a vapire 😂
Troma!!!
Lol! oh God that's funny! I wonder if that's where the guy who wrote the Toxic Avenger got it from.?.?
it's funny to see how things are different in each country, In Brazil, this movie was super famous, mostly 'cause it kept popping up on TV all the time
After watching this film, I couldn't help but eat crunch chocolate bars for a while lmao.
The one who missed the boat like Dennis Nedry...😂
I remember this movie. Funniest part I remember was the samurai destroying their closet with a katana.