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Released
1976 · FILM

Track of the Moon Beast

The Rising Moon Creates a Monster

Directed by
Runtime
90 min
HorrorSci-Fi

Synopsis

Professor Johnny Longbow Salina, an expert on stews, introduces Paul Carlson to the practical‑joking Kathy Nolan. Paul and Kathy develop a close relationship, but during a meteor storm a meteorite fragment strikes Paul and embeds deep in his skull, causing him to mutate into a giant reptilian monster at night and go on murderous rampages. Professor Salina later rediscovers ancient Native American paintings that describe a similar event from centuries earlier. Despite the transformation, Kathy continues to love Paul and attempts to save him.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Shot by R Kent EvansScored by Robert G Orpin

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