Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959)

The greatest movie ever made..!

Let's be realistic.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

As I read some of the other reviews, how kids were terrified by this, I have to laugh. I first saw it on TV when I was about 5, and even then found it inferior to The Blob. Having said that, it is a fun movie. The monster is creepy and for 1959, there are some really gruesome effects. I wish someone would re-release it with better dubbing. It seems that every foreign sf/horror/fantasy film from the 60's used the same six voices. This is a fun movie to see. In terms of Blob movies, I'd rate them: X-The Unknown, The Quatermass Xperiment, The Blob (58), The Blob (88). All fun movies.

Fantasticaly photographed this B movie is well done despite the low budge forced to use miniature in final scenes...even been a carbon copy of The Bloob,the movie has own charm...using Mexican folklore to develop the plot...Caltiki is a gem to discover and a enjoyable movie from the master Bava....restored it is more powerful....this my kind of cinema!!! Resume: First watch: 2017 / How Many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7

This movie was better than Steve's McQueens Blob movie which was okay, but i thought Caltiki's story was more interesting and the effects was very good for the period of time that it came out. The effects was a okay in my book and when i saw it as a kid in the early 1960's, it scared the day lights out of me! I think it is one of the best movies of blob like movies that i ever did see. There's a lot of good movies within the past 60 some odd years that had blob like creatures or single cell protoplasm creatures in them. This i feel is one of the BEST films i ever did see. None hold barred! Caltiki the Immortal Monster is the best movie i ever saw and i highly recommend it to anyone!

This is a classic. How can we request it move to DVD format? This is one of the early creatures that diverged from the usual Man in Costume genre of the 50's and prior. The unique shape and the manner in which it killed was far different from the standard chase and grab. Akin to the Blob, it has a more eerie setting being in the Mayan ruins. Another film around the same time had a similar mode of elimination in the movie :The Creeping Inknown with Brian Donlevy, another movie I would like to see on DVD. Both of these films were part of my childhood Fright Night movie viewing. There were several New England TV stations that showed horror on Friday and Saturday nights: "Chiller" had a skeleton hand with a candle and Feep was a miniature space alien that hosted the commercial breaks during "Creature Feature".