Magic Lizard

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Magic Lizard
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySompote Sands[1]
Produced by
  • Sompote Sands
  • Wannee Thanarungroj
Starring
Production
companies
Chaiyo Productions Co., Ltd.
Distributed byChaiyo Productions Co., Ltd.
Release date
1985
Running time
107 minutes
CountryThailand
LanguageThai

Magic Lizard (

monster adventure film directed and produced by Sompote Sands. The film's plot follows a large frilled lizard who sets out to retrieve a crystal stolen by aliens.[2]

Summary

Magic Lizard is a large lizard who guards the crystal under the base of the

Martians stole the crystal, Magic Lizard enlists the aid of the giant guardian as he escapes to various locations throughout Thailand, including Bridge on the River Kwai and Phae Mueang Phi. Over the course of the film, Magic Lizard flees from man-eating crocodile, wild elephants, tiger, a mother and baby black bear, run away from a train, giant mosquitoes and skeleton ghost
in treasure cave.

Production

Magic Lizard was inspired by Sompote Sands' nephew, who had brought home a frilled lizard from Australia.

Release and reception

The film was released in Japan by

copyright law.[3]

After not being successful in the screening. It is considered to be Sands's last film work. After this, he turned to working solely on Ultraman. Several years later, this resulted in a copyright lawsuit against Tsuburaya Productions.

In February 2022, the film screened at the 11th Madrid International Cutre Film Festival, also known as CutreCon, in Spain.[4] Discussing the film ahead of the festival, CutreCon director Carlos Palencia stated, "I cannot recommend this film enough, because it seems conceived by an extraterrestrial civilization. I didn't understand anything the first time I saw it. [...] it seems like a children's movie, but suddenly there is an alien invasion and there begins to be nudity, scenes of incomprehensible violence and other things I can't reveal because I don't want to ruin the movie. [...] I have not seen anything else like it, because nothing else like it exists."[4]

References

  1. Matichon Online
    (in Thai). 26 August 2021. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
  2. ^ Siwapornphan, Supat (27 July 2022). "หอภาพยนตร์ ปลุก 9 หนังสัตว์ประหลาดไทยสุดคลาสสิก กลับมาอาละวาดอีกครั้งในโปรแกรม Strange Creatures สัตว์ประหลาดมหันตภัย" [The Thai Film Archive Awaken 9 Classic Thai Monster Movies to Rampage Again in "Strange Creatures"]. The Standard (in Thai). Retrieved 6 November 2022.
  3. ASTV Manager (in Thai). Retrieved 8 August 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link
    )
  4. ^ a b Serrano, Nacho (22 February 2022). "Las diez películas más cutres de la CutreCon 2022" [The ten seediest movies of CutreCon 2022]. ABC (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 November 2022.

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