this movie have it all bad plot and bad script and bad acting and bad special effect and bad lighting . and on and on . what a total waste of film this thing be . a small town in maybe texas be terrorize by a giant gila monster for some reason . the local sheriff and who mostly talk on the phone a lot and and a kind hearted young dragster and chase and set out to rid the town of this threat . chase race around town in his soup up car and beat the sheriff to all the wreck and bad stuff that the monster do . save this tidbit for late chase and for some ungodly unexplained reason and also have access to nitroglycerin that apparently come in what look to be coffee can with xxx stencil on them . this movie be clearly try to capitalize off all the teen trend of the late 50 kid and their hot rod car and their music and elvis be mention and and all that . chase be a good wholesome teen who be help his single mom raise his crippled little sister . this cool cat be also try to get a sing career off the ground . anyway there be some singing and some dj come to town for a dance party and all the while this giant gila monster be walk around . now the giant lizard be never really explain . the sheriff and chase have some lame talk about gully and wash and alt that could have cause this lizard to grow to be a monster . but we never really learn how the lizard get so big and why it seem to be the only lizard who be so affect by the alt . none of these people could act whatsoever . well one little guy could . shug wilson and i think be his name and he end up on a few episode of the beverly hillbilly and some other stuff like that . everything else be terrible in this movie . a shot of the monster crash through the side of the building at the dance party be clearly just a lizard with it head through a piece of cardboard . a train wreck cause by the monster be simply a model train roll off the end of the track down into some dirt . no grinding of metal or massive dust cloud throw up or anything and just a little train flop down in the dirt with some dub in scream from the passenger . anyway after the sheriff sit in his office a whole bunch chase go out and end the movie in a really implausible silly finale . i do not want to give too much away but there wasn not really a giant gila monster in this movie and it be just a regular sized gila monster shoot really close up amid some really crappy look little model of stuff . this be just a bad mess by people who have no clue about any facet of movie making . it isn not so bad it fun either . it just plod and boring and a waste of time not entertain in the least .