So, you think you know true horror? You think you've got the whole film library of the macabre memorized? Unless you're a Something Weird Video junkie, you're wrong. This is the world of bizarre storylines, weird monsters and special effects? Well, two outta three ain't bad.

Something Weird Video has been doing these double features on DVD for a little while now. My first exposure was STING OF DEATH/DEATH CURSE OF TARTU. I knew that when I opened it and saw the lyrics for the toe tapping THE JELLYFISH by Neil Sedaka that I was hooked. Hooked bad.

Now we have (THE BEAST THAT KILLED WOMEN/THE MONSTER OF CAMP SUNSHINE) the first monster nudist double feature. To make matters even more fun, Something Weirdo has made this a true drive in experience. You can watch the films individually as well as the short films that always adorn a SW DVD release, or you can set it up to play just like a drive-in double feature of yesteryear. Candy commercials and all.

Before I go into the actual reviews for the films let me cover the rules of the nudie cutie genre. There is a treasure trove of these films and they were quite prolific in the 60's. You could show both genders backsides and women's boobs and that was it. This made for some interesting shots in both of these films.

Anyone approaching the camera wore shorts. Women contorted themselves in bizarre angles to hide the appearance of pubic hair. While these films were quite daring in their day, now they have become more of a curiosity. Now, on with the films!

THE BEAST THAT KILLED WOMEN is on the top of the bill. Probably because it's in color. We are treated to the story of poor Delores Carlos. She is agonizing over the fact that she can't get an all over tan. Her hubby, Byron, wanting to make her happy takes her to the nearby nudist camp. We are then bombarded by acres of naked flesh. Some tan and gorgeous. Some just plain scary. Some people just shouldn't be allowed to be naked. Unfortunately, in films like these they get close ups. To spice things up there is a late night luau. Never will you see people this bored and scantily clad at the same time. To spice things up we get a beast who comes upon one of the unsuspecting nudists in their sleep. For some reason nudists sleep with their clothes on. It isn't long before he drags her out of her shack and takes her some where quiet to murder her!?!

The authorities are on the case and they even set up a female police officer as bait. But not before Delores and Byron are assaulted by the creature. Delores escapes, but Byron is thrown into the water by the beast. For some reason this warrants an extended stay in a hospital. It's also odd that he's visited more by a detective in a bad jacket than his own wife who won't visit him at all. This is the kind of film that you will enjoy for it's utter ineptitude. There's really no storyline and when the movie's over it's because it reached it's time limit. While the picture is gorgeous and the color is deep and vibrant, it would almost look better with a grainy, washed-out look. If you're a true bad cinema buff then you have to add this to your collection. Just for the end credits. It doesn't get much worse than this.

And then THE MONSTER OF CAMP SUNSHINE comes right out and proves that wrong. Shot in b&w, this tells the tender story of a pair of roommates. One is a nurse and the other is a fashion model. And thanks to the services of a roommate service, they are both nudists! Kinda figured that one didn't you? They are both card carrying members of Camp Sunshine. The nurse is working with a doctor who is doing experiments on rats that make the rats violently aggressive. When a few get out of their cages they attack the nurse and force her out a window. Thankfully the doctor saves her. If you watch carefully you can tell that people are throwing the poor rats at the girl. Meanwhile the model is doing a photo shoot for the latest in topless bikinis. This is one of the things that makes this film so good. Especially if you're a history buff. We are treated to gorgeous b&w shoots of the New York City of yesteryear. It's kind of weird to see the skyline without the World Trade Center before it was even built. It's like a time capsule of days gone by. So, with this much stress in their lives, the girls decide to treat them selves to a weekend at Camp Sunshine. To lounge around, go camping and smoke. Geez, people smoked a lot back then. And cigarettes looked like a friggin' two by four. It's amazing sometimes that we're not all dead from the cigarette smoke of the fifties and sixties. But, I digress.

While the girls are at camp the doctor at the lab realizes that his serum must be destroyed. So, he puts it in a bottle, walks down to the docks and chucks the damned thing in the water! Later a fisherman downstream from, well the ocean (?!?!?) catches the bottle that has conveniently lodged itself in a shopping bag. Then he drives a few hours towards Camp Sunshine and starts to fish in a stream. For some reason he needs to put the bottle on the bridge he's fishing off of. It falls naturally and breaks open releasing the serum into the river. Of course that would be when the camp's groundsmen decides he's thirsty. Yup, it took all that to give us the monster. Poor Hugo is then locked up by his sister. Of course it isn't long before he breaks loose with murder on his mind. That's when the stock footage, ah I mean the army is brought out to destroy Hugo. Can't have monsters rampaging through a nudist colony after all. And it isn't long before our nation's armed forces have reduced poor hugo to, well either he's the biggest petoskey stone I've ever seen or a small cantaloupe.

This movie doesn't ask you to suspend belief. It wants you to drag it in the corner and beat the hell out of it. But, it does have it's good points. The nudity, for one thing. Then there's the New York City of old. And let's not forget a monster with a Mode Coward haircut.

Now with these two epics of monster nudity we get a plethora of extras as is the norm with any DVD from Something Weird. There's the hilarious short film from the 20's called BRING 'EM BACK NUDE. From 1938 we get the shocking documentary THE EXPOSE' OF THE NUDE RACKET. Representing the 40's is NUDE RANCH and then for some reason we skip the 50's and go straight to the 60's with the bizarre NUDE FASHION SHOW. Add to that an interactive set of actual drive in spots exalting the wonders of the snack bar and a fistful of trailers for other nudie films along with a huge gallery of drive-in exploitation art that's accompanied by radio spots for the films from their initial release and you've got 134 minutes of some of the wackiest entertainment to come down the pipe in some time.

Getting tired of the cutting edge of cinema in the new millennium? Try this drive-in double feature for a mind boggling change of pace.