Creature From the Haunted Sea

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Louis D I love it's classic style! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/23/24 Full Review Acy C This 1961 parody of spy, gangster and monster movies is Roger Corman’s follow up to Little Shop of Horrors and is billed as a horror comedy but sadly is neither. At an hour and 3 minute runtime this amateurish farce at least has brevity going for it. A third rate monster that was perhaps constructed by a second grade arts class is the least of the movies many problems. The lead actor is none other than Robert Towne the talented Academy Award winning screenplay writer for Chinatown and many others. I suppose we can be thankful that this ill advised acting endeavor all but ended his career as an actor. Check out the cool theatrical release poster and skip ever watching this amateur hour. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/01/24 Full Review mark s "It was dark. I could tell, because the sun was going down."... .Not much elaboration is needed here. This flick is wincingly painful to watch. Not in the same category as 'Troll 2', Ed Woods 'Glen or Glenda', or 'Manos: Hands of fate', but still rotten to the core. At 62 minutes, mercifully short. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review dave s Creature from the Haunted Sea is another low-budget, B-movie bit of weirdness from director Roger Corman. This particular mess is an aimless affair featuring Cubans fleeing from Castro's Cuba, some wildly unfunny comedy, the most lame monster that Corman ever came up with, and a narrator that'll make you want to slap your eardrums. Some of Corman's other quickies could at least be admired for what he was able to throw together with a minimal budget and couple of days of shooting time, but Creature from the Haunted Sea is actually embarrassing to watch. There are no laughs, no intrigue, no drama, and no thrills. This may be his worst film, and that's saying something. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member An delightfully silly parody of spy films and monsters, with a fittingly corny monster. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member B-Movie King Roger Corman had already started making some quality films by this point in his career, having made "Fall of the House of Usher" and "Machine-Gun Kelly," but this film feels more along the lines of his earlier schlocky films, such as "Attack of the Crab Monsters" or "The Brain Eaters." The story follows super spy Robert Towne (yes, that Robert Town, who wrote "Chinatown," "Tequila Sunrise," "Shampoo" and other modern film classics) as Sparks Moran / Agent XK150, who offers to help a group of Cuban nationals escape the revolution with their ill-gotten riches, but who is instead plotting to kill them and blame their deaths on a mystical sea creature. But wait! Things get weird when said mythical sea creature actually show up and is actually a real thing! Written by Charles B. Griffith, who'd later go on to write or co-write "Death Race 2000" "The Wild Angels" and "Eat My Dust," the script thankfully doesn't take itself too seriously (some of the Spanish names are tells that they were not taking this too serious: Colonel Cabeza Grande [Big Head] and Isla de Barracho [Island of the Drunk]). However, the production values on this Corman production are so cheap that the film really does look like amateur hour. It also doesn't help when the actors in front of the camera don't have much talent ("House of Usher" had Vincent Price and "Machine-Gun Kelly" had a young Charles Bronson). Overall, this is more interesting to watch as a curiosity than it is as an actual entertaining film. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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