Pumaman

1980 "An ancient gold mask with the power to control minds..."
2.3| 1h37m| en
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Thousands of years ago, aliens visited Earth and fathered the Pumaman, a man-god with supernatural powers entrusted by a gold mask with the ability to control people's minds, which in present-day London, falls into the wrong hands.

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BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.
Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
gavin6942 Low-budget film about a young man given a mystical medallion by an Aztec shaman, in order to become a puma-empowered champion like his father before him. In trying to initially locate the young man, the shaman has the nasty habit of pushing candidates out of windows to test them.If not for "Mystery Science Theater", this film would probably have been forgotten. As of now (2015), the film was released on VHS, but never DVD. The VHS tapes actually got for a fairly high price online. There must be some kind of a demand.And, you know, despite being a bad movie, it is a fun bad movie. And many folks (myself included) love Italian horror / fantasy / adventure films. It would be great to see this film released on DVD or even Blu-ray, cleaned up with some sort of information on its creation and the director.
BrofessorScales I have been watching terrible movies for a while and to be honest, this movie was loads of fun and was immediately saved by one scene. I won't go into details about this scene but it is quite magical when you watch it. Pumaman is a Terrible excuse as a movie, Terrible camera quality, Bad dubbing and terrible effects. But it also has elements that makes a good-bad film. It has that one Laugh-out-loud scene that makes the movie an instant classic for people like me. It is very obvious that the budget was really low, but I never thought that it could look this awful. It is really an achievement. This movie actually reminds me of the terrible movie call "Manos, the hands of fate". It looks like crap, was dubbed a lot and was really boring except a couple scenes. I actually prefer this movie to manos though. It's pacing is a bit better, There isn't awkward music over the whole movie. It's awful but watchable. It has some classic moments that really save it from being one of the worst movies ever. I give it a 2 because the 1 rating should be reserved for the least entertaining and terrible movies.
irishm My rating is solely for the MST3K version; I can't even conceive of watching this film without their help. I can't rate it on its own merits because it doesn't have any.I knew from the first arm-flailing flight of The Puma Man… or The Pyew-ma Man if you listen to Donald Pleasance… or Thep-Yoo-MA-man if you listen to the way the 'bots interpret the opening title… that I would be very disappointed if there wasn't at least one "Greatest American Hero" joke in there somewhere. I was not disappointed… they did a nice nod to the TV show's theme song. ("Believe it or not, this movie's still on; it should have ended two hours ago-o-oh…!") Poor Donald Pleasance… what was he doing here anyway? Did he lose a bet or something? This was an above-average Mike episode; the riffs were witty and fresh and the movie provided them with plenty of fodder. Many of their comments were directed at Pleasance's bald head… it might have gotten repetitive after a while, but it didn't. Let's face it: when you start with an Aztec with a mullet and a flying paleontologist, you really can't go wrong making a lousy movie. A must-see for MST3K fans, but Donald Pleasance fans might want to skip it due to the humiliation factor. (Maybe he kept saying "Pyew" because it was his evaluation of the movie he was trapped in?)
Dylan Greenberg I really liked this movie, and so does my 7 year old sister, and she doesn't have a very long attention span. The special effects honestly aren't that bad. Of course they're not as good as Richard Donner's Superman, that one had millions of dollars poured into it. The synth score is wonderful, and I constantly hum it. The trampoline effects were nice too. What I really liked about this film is how even though the budget wasn't as big, they still found ways to work around it. Don't compare this to the big budget Superman, and just look at it as it's own movie. MST3K was very unfair to this movie, and I don't think it deserves to be on the worst movies list. It's really a shame that Walter George Alton quit acting, because he was a perfect underdog role. He was believable as an ordinary guy who DISCOVERS the power within himself. Miguel Ángel Fuentes was wonderful as a mentor. Even though it's dated, it's a great movie for all ages.