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Shocked ... shocked I say ... that they would even put this on DVD. I know it's out of print, and all ... but to think that it was ever on DVD in the first place just ... astounds me. I rented this from the local-yokel Video Planet about a year ago, and I had to wipe the dust from the display box off onto the carpet. Then when I got home, and put it into my VCR I didn't even think the thing would play. But lo, and behold, I managed to sit through the film.

There's one rather lusty scene, in which the protagonist has his way with the unconscious heroine. Other than that, there's not much worth seeing here. It's a snore.

Intentionally or otherwise, The Brides Wore Black comes across as a faux Euro-Shock film, a story that even Jess Franco or Jean Rollin might have rejected as being too feeble to consider. The movie begins with a framing sequence, evidently set in the then-contemporary period of the early 1970s, judging by the hairstyles, fashions, and dialogue ("Far out!"). If I have followed the internal chronology correctly, the extended flashback, containing the main body of the film, has to take place 20 or more years earlier--and yet, everyone still looks and sounds like a refugee from the tag-end of the Counter-Culture.

The story itself has something to do with a family curse that turns the first-born son of every generation into a vampire. The patriarch of the family, acting on advice from a local psychic and occult expert, plans a magical ritual to lift the curse. This evidently requires him to trap four beautiful women and use them to fulfill various parts of the ritual. There's also a stray vampire roaming through the ancestral manor, and when the patriarch's spell-casting goes awry, a fuzzy-faced demon is unleashed as well. The resulting action is confusing, unconvincing, and, in my case, somnolence-inducing.

There are a few "We're almost going to show you some female nudity" scenes, and one missed opportunity for a lesbian sequence that might have served to (briefly) dissipate the otherwise unrelieved tedium. There's just not much here to recommend to even the most fanatical horror buff.

I have always liked this Florida made cheapie about vampires in an old mansion. The acting isn't bad and anyone who likes irony will love the end of this baby. The disc is hosted by Son of Ghoul, and that is a major plus in itself. Horror fans and fans of bad cinema should get this disc.

All I can bear to say is that this makes Pearl Harbor Look like The Godfather, ohw my god, I was once siting around watching a dvd of Lord of the rings when it ended i turned the t.v. back to t.v. mode episode of MST3000 this was playing. I complained about it so mutch online that someone on the internet named "Metroidfan1" jokingly saidthat he'ld send a copy tome. So I bought the DVD just to spite him. This is truly [not good] -1 out of 10

Wow, what can I say. I am a major horror buff. So of course no matter how bad a horror movie is I'll love it. A cheesy, bad acted, and terribly scripted movie. I mean it's just what I was looking for. Here is the basic plot.

Four Hobgoblins crashed landed to earth 30 yrs prior. They have the ability to give anyone their wildest dreams. But of course in the end they kill you. They are trapped in a vault for 30 yrs. Then a new security guard unwittengly free's them of there prison. And is then giving the charge to destroy them by morning.

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Drive in antics w/miss kim.

I suggest grabbing this dvd. Getting tanked and watching it with a bunch of friends just as tanked as you.

Zombie

I was first introduced to this film on MST3K, and quickly concluded that it was one of the worst films ever made. Basically, what we have here are a few incredibly stupid looking puppets attacking people. There are a few cul-de-sac in the plot such as mind control of the people by the puppets, a haunted abandoned movie studio and the infamous 'Club Scum' scene where the band plays the 'Fish Picker' song. Truly, very, very bad.

After saying this please know that I actually enjoy this movie. It is absolutely horribly constructed, dismally acted, and ineptly edited. The music is awful, but at least it drowns out the dialogue (when you are lucky). If you want to enjoy watching a very bad movie in the 'Plan 9' genre, you will be quite pleased with yourself for finding this little known gem.

David DeCoteau's _Sixth Sense_ ripoff is dull beyond belief. Even the requisite beefcake shots look shoddy.

Like many of DeCoteau's more recent films, _The Frightening_ was filmed in widescreen and released on DVD in full-frame format. Image cropping is noticeable and sound is just plain bad.

Avoid.

This film was ok for what it is, but not DeCoteau's best. Not nearly enough boys-in-boxer-briefs scenes! If you're looking for a flick in the homo-horror genre, definitely get Voodoo Academy (the DVD); it's the best of the lot. Brotherhood 1 and 2 are both okay.

The Frightening is a new breed of horror movies. Sure, the acting and the plot are no Oscar material but, this is a B-movie after all. With its mix of humor and suspense The Frightening is spooky good fun from cult horror director Peter Jackson. While it contains no special features, and is not in widescreen, the movie overall is a good tale to spin for viewing. Given what the budget was with this film, one would have to expect a less than stellar performance. Given the right circumstances, this movie could have easily been a mainstream movie. Good to rent, purchasing left to your tastes.

Phantom from 10,000 Leagues is not a great movie. It's not even a great bad movie. It's really for cheesy 50s ARC/AIP SF completists only. The movie is below-average low-budget 50s dreck; talky and slow-moving, with few laughs, and very little 'face time' for the monster. The human drama is only slightly compelling and the infrequently spotted "phantom" looks like a big paper milk carton with teeth and claws. Or something. Buy the cool-looking poster instead. Makes Monster from the Ocean Floor seem breezy and action-packed in comparison. The only good thing you can say about this flick is that apparently the Milner brothers made enough cash off of it to finance their magnum opus, From Hell It Came. I wish THAT movie would come out on DVD!
Of course if the disc transfer and extras were good enough, 50s trashcore fans like us would have to get this for the library anyway, right? Unfortunately, this DVD is definitely subpar. To start off, the transfer is fair to mediocre at best. It really looks like it was mastered from an EP mode VHS tape, or recorded off-air from a UHF station, using a loop antenna. Very flat, very grainy/fuzzy; not as bad as a Madacy disc, but close. It's actually hard to tell if it's the print or the transfer that's to blame 'cause it's just so bad overall. And in a really tacky move, to say the least, the otherwise presumably G-rated disc includes several trailers featuring frontal nudity and softcore sex scenes. Not that junior is pestering you to see this movie or anything, but questionable nonetheless. But you're not going to buy this disc anyway; I guarantee you will be disappointed for the money. I would advise waiting for Image or Rhino to get around to putting this out unless you absolutely have to see it. (When I realized that Fred Olen Ray was involved in this DVD, it all started to make sense.)

Strange deaths near an oceanography school are attributed to a phantom by some of the locals. Various people have come to investigate. What they find is a powerful radiation source on the ocean floor and a bizarre fish-man guarding it.

Intrigue and counter-intrigue mesh until we are not sure who is on what side (except for one character who always seems shady). But in the end, the dangerous radiation source is deactivated and, as in Godzilla, the scientist takes the awful knowledge with him.

This is a basic disk with Play and Scene Selection as the only options.

This is a bad movie. Some would say it was bad enough to be good. My main problem with the lot is that the first victim we see is knocked out of his rowboat. Later, it always seems that getting back into a rowboat is all it take to be safe from the creature.

Despite the obvious plug of the title (taken from Beast From 20,000 Fathoms), the creature is rather disappointing (no Harryhausen effects here). In the early scenes it looks very lion like in the face (complete with mane). The resemblance disappears when seen from the side. Unlike the Creature From The Black Lagoon, this rubber suit does not seem designed for swimming so the actor does not move much underwater (lessening the suspense).

I have to say that this is one I will be watching again even if it is not up to the "bad" standards of other B-Movies.

As a fan of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, I could not help but be amused by the coincidental facts that the main character initially uses the assumed name of Ted Baxter and ends up working with an investigator named Mr. Grant. Luckily, The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues has a little more going for it than this ironic coincidence. As the movie begins, a fisherman is pulled into the water by some monstrous sea creature. When his radioactive remains wash up on the beach, Ted Baxter is there to find him (though I'm not sure why he was walking along the beach in a suit). He seeks out the head of the oceanography college, and eventually he confesses that he is actually Ted Stevens, author of two important but controversial books on the use of heavy water for atomic purposes and radiation-induced mutation. He undertakes a diving expedition off the coast and comes across a huge source of dangerous uranium-induced radioactivity and a monstrous creature seemingly guarding it; from his own limited experimentation, he knows this dangerous, obviously man-made threat must be destroyed. The scientist is paranoid about his work, which brings him under suspicion. Also under suspicion are the scientist's secretary and assistant. As the movie progresses, we see the phantom kill a few more people, watch Stevens woo the daughter of the scientist he is investigating, watch in amazement as the scientist changes his jacket an inordinate number of times, and wait for something to happen - this effort is in vain, for the most part. There are a couple of good explosions near the end, but the conclusion holds no real surprises whatsoever.

The title implies that the phantom originally comes from some place 10,000 leagues under the sea; actually, all of the underwater action seems to take place a couple of hundred yards offshore. The divers we watch every so often exploring the ocean floor have the remarkable knack to come up to the surface exactly beside their boat, no matter how far away from it they have traveled. As for the phantom, I thought he was portrayed rather well; he certainly looks like something one would want to avoid beneath the ocean waters, and the moviemakers wisely show him standing still for the most part. This movie is your typical 1950s underwater monster adventure, offering little to delight but little to disappoint the audience. In other words, it's not bad - but it's not good, either.

Phantom from 10,000 Leagues is not a great movie. It's not even a great bad movie. It's really for cheesy 50s ARC/AIP SF completists only. The movie is below-average low-budget 50s dreck; talky and slow-moving, with few laughs, and very little 'face time' for the monster. The human drama is only slightly compelling and the infrequently spotted "phantom" looks like a big paper milk carton with teeth and claws. Or something. Buy the cool-looking poster instead. Makes Monster from the Ocean Floor seem breezy and action-packed in comparison. The only good thing you can say about this flick is that apparently the Milner brothers made enough cash off of it to finance their magnum opus, From Hell It Came. I wish THAT movie would come out on DVD!
Of course if the disc transfer and extras were good enough, 50s trashcore fans like us would have to get this for the library anyway, right? Unfortunately, this DVD is definitely subpar. To start off, the transfer is fair to mediocre at best. It really looks like it was mastered from an EP mode VHS tape, or recorded off-air from a UHF station, using a loop antenna. Very flat, very grainy/fuzzy; not as bad as a Madacy disc, but close. It's actually hard to tell if it's the print or the transfer that's to blame 'cause it's just so bad overall. And in a really tacky move, to say the least, the otherwise presumably G-rated disc includes several trailers featuring frontal nudity and softcore sex scenes. Not that junior is pestering you to see this movie or anything, but questionable nonetheless. But you're not going to buy this disc anyway; I guarantee you will be disappointed for the money. I would advise waiting for Image or Rhino to get around to putting this out unless you absolutely have to see it. (When I realized that Fred Olen Ray was involved in this DVD, it all started to make sense.)

Strange deaths near an oceanography school are attributed to a phantom by some of the locals. Various people have come to investigate. What they find is a powerful radiation source on the ocean floor and a bizarre fish-man guarding it.

Intrigue and counter-intrigue mesh until we are not sure who is on what side (except for one character who always seems shady). But in the end, the dangerous radiation source is deactivated and, as in Godzilla, the scientist takes the awful knowledge with him.

This is a basic disk with Play and Scene Selection as the only options.

This is a bad movie. Some would say it was bad enough to be good. My main problem with the lot is that the first victim we see is knocked out of his rowboat. Later, it always seems that getting back into a rowboat is all it take to be safe from the creature.

Despite the obvious plug of the title (taken from Beast From 20,000 Fathoms), the creature is rather disappointing (no Harryhausen effects here). In the early scenes it looks very lion like in the face (complete with mane). The resemblance disappears when seen from the side. Unlike the Creature From The Black Lagoon, this rubber suit does not seem designed for swimming so the actor does not move much underwater (lessening the suspense).

I have to say that this is one I will be watching again even if it is not up to the "bad" standards of other B-Movies.

As a fan of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, I could not help but be amused by the coincidental facts that the main character initially uses the assumed name of Ted Baxter and ends up working with an investigator named Mr. Grant. Luckily, The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues has a little more going for it than this ironic coincidence. As the movie begins, a fisherman is pulled into the water by some monstrous sea creature. When his radioactive remains wash up on the beach, Ted Baxter is there to find him (though I'm not sure why he was walking along the beach in a suit). He seeks out the head of the oceanography college, and eventually he confesses that he is actually Ted Stevens, author of two important but controversial books on the use of heavy water for atomic purposes and radiation-induced mutation. He undertakes a diving expedition off the coast and comes across a huge source of dangerous uranium-induced radioactivity and a monstrous creature seemingly guarding it; from his own limited experimentation, he knows this dangerous, obviously man-made threat must be destroyed. The scientist is paranoid about his work, which brings him under suspicion. Also under suspicion are the scientist's secretary and assistant. As the movie progresses, we see the phantom kill a few more people, watch Stevens woo the daughter of the scientist he is investigating, watch in amazement as the scientist changes his jacket an inordinate number of times, and wait for something to happen - this effort is in vain, for the most part. There are a couple of good explosions near the end, but the conclusion holds no real surprises whatsoever.

The title implies that the phantom originally comes from some place 10,000 leagues under the sea; actually, all of the underwater action seems to take place a couple of hundred yards offshore. The divers we watch every so often exploring the ocean floor have the remarkable knack to come up to the surface exactly beside their boat, no matter how far away from it they have traveled. As for the phantom, I thought he was portrayed rather well; he certainly looks like something one would want to avoid beneath the ocean waters, and the moviemakers wisely show him standing still for the most part. This movie is your typical 1950s underwater monster adventure, offering little to delight but little to disappoint the audience. In other words, it's not bad - but it's not good, either.

Phantom from 10,000 Leagues is not a great movie. It's not even a great bad movie. It's really for cheesy 50s ARC/AIP SF completists only. The movie is below-average low-budget 50s dreck; talky and slow-moving, with few laughs, and very little 'face time' for the monster. The human drama is only slightly compelling and the infrequently spotted "phantom" looks like a big paper milk carton with teeth and claws. Or something. Buy the cool-looking poster instead. Makes Monster from the Ocean Floor seem breezy and action-packed in comparison. The only good thing you can say about this flick is that apparently the Milner brothers made enough cash off of it to finance their magnum opus, From Hell It Came. I wish THAT movie would come out on DVD!
Of course if the disc transfer and extras were good enough, 50s trashcore fans like us would have to get this for the library anyway, right? Unfortunately, this DVD is definitely subpar. To start off, the transfer is fair to mediocre at best. It really looks like it was mastered from an EP mode VHS tape, or recorded off-air from a UHF station, using a loop antenna. Very flat, very grainy/fuzzy; not as bad as a Madacy disc, but close. It's actually hard to tell if it's the print or the transfer that's to blame 'cause it's just so bad overall. And in a really tacky move, to say the least, the otherwise presumably G-rated disc includes several trailers featuring frontal nudity and softcore sex scenes. Not that junior is pestering you to see this movie or anything, but questionable nonetheless. But you're not going to buy this disc anyway; I guarantee you will be disappointed for the money. I would advise waiting for Image or Rhino to get around to putting this out unless you absolutely have to see it. (When I realized that Fred Olen Ray was involved in this DVD, it all started to make sense.)

Strange deaths near an oceanography school are attributed to a phantom by some of the locals. Various people have come to investigate. What they find is a powerful radiation source on the ocean floor and a bizarre fish-man guarding it.

Intrigue and counter-intrigue mesh until we are not sure who is on what side (except for one character who always seems shady). But in the end, the dangerous radiation source is deactivated and, as in Godzilla, the scientist takes the awful knowledge with him.

This is a basic disk with Play and Scene Selection as the only options.

This is a bad movie. Some would say it was bad enough to be good. My main problem with the lot is that the first victim we see is knocked out of his rowboat. Later, it always seems that getting back into a rowboat is all it take to be safe from the creature.

Despite the obvious plug of the title (taken from Beast From 20,000 Fathoms), the creature is rather disappointing (no Harryhausen effects here). In the early scenes it looks very lion like in the face (complete with mane). The resemblance disappears when seen from the side. Unlike the Creature From The Black Lagoon, this rubber suit does not seem designed for swimming so the actor does not move much underwater (lessening the suspense).

I have to say that this is one I will be watching again even if it is not up to the "bad" standards of other B-Movies.

As a fan of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, I could not help but be amused by the coincidental facts that the main character initially uses the assumed name of Ted Baxter and ends up working with an investigator named Mr. Grant. Luckily, The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues has a little more going for it than this ironic coincidence. As the movie begins, a fisherman is pulled into the water by some monstrous sea creature. When his radioactive remains wash up on the beach, Ted Baxter is there to find him (though I'm not sure why he was walking along the beach in a suit). He seeks out the head of the oceanography college, and eventually he confesses that he is actually Ted Stevens, author of two important but controversial books on the use of heavy water for atomic purposes and radiation-induced mutation. He undertakes a diving expedition off the coast and comes across a huge source of dangerous uranium-induced radioactivity and a monstrous creature seemingly guarding it; from his own limited experimentation, he knows this dangerous, obviously man-made threat must be destroyed. The scientist is paranoid about his work, which brings him under suspicion. Also under suspicion are the scientist's secretary and assistant. As the movie progresses, we see the phantom kill a few more people, watch Stevens woo the daughter of the scientist he is investigating, watch in amazement as the scientist changes his jacket an inordinate number of times, and wait for something to happen - this effort is in vain, for the most part. There are a couple of good explosions near the end, but the conclusion holds no real surprises whatsoever.

The title implies that the phantom originally comes from some place 10,000 leagues under the sea; actually, all of the underwater action seems to take place a couple of hundred yards offshore. The divers we watch every so often exploring the ocean floor have the remarkable knack to come up to the surface exactly beside their boat, no matter how far away from it they have traveled. As for the phantom, I thought he was portrayed rather well; he certainly looks like something one would want to avoid beneath the ocean waters, and the moviemakers wisely show him standing still for the most part. This movie is your typical 1950s underwater monster adventure, offering little to delight but little to disappoint the audience. In other words, it's not bad - but it's not good, either.

This movie is a let down all the way around. I am a huge fan of old horror movies, but I cannot find one good thing to say about this one. The print I attained on DVD is horrible. The picture is choppy, out of frame, shows it's age, and the sound is muffled and very low. As to the content, the movie drags all the way through, the effects were very poor, and the acting was worse than plan 9 from outer space. I thought they could have done much more with the plot, but chose a cheap route, even for 1958. To me, it isn't even worth watching for laughs. Should be a dollar store special, but even they have better movies!

I just thought you would like to know that "The Screaming Skull" is a movie that has made an appearance on Mystery Science Theater 3000, so if you're looking for a movie of that caliber you will enjoy this one; however, you might as well buy the MST3K edition and get the humerous commentary that accompanies it. If you're looking for a "classic" horror film I would suggest that you keep searching.

I first discovered "The Screaming Skull" while watching Mystery Science Theater 3000. I immediately thought the film seemed interesting, so when the chance arose to purchase the film, I took advantage of the opportunity.

"The Screaming Skull" is about a newlywed couple who come to live in an old vacant house that is owned by the husband after his previous wife mysteriously died. At night a skull haunts the wife all throughout the house. Convinced it's her husband's dead wife trying to scare her, she is viewed as crazy - she had already spent some time in a mental hospital after witnessing the drowning of her parents.

Although the budget is low and the film seems to drag at times, it's good for the fact that it really tried to build suspense and give the audience an interesting story to follow. There are a few twists in the movie that you may figure out early on, but that's the fun of the movie. You also have to laugh at the fact that at the beginning of the movie, the producers announce that they will provide free burial services to those who die of fright while watching "The Screaming Skull".

I would definitely recommend this film to people who love old horror B-movies. This is one the few that will leave you thoroughly entertained!

Tread with caution, this film is NOT Jorge Grau's Countess Bathory film 'Legend of Blood Castle', it's actually a Spanish / Italian co-production called 'Ivanna' and was released in the Netherlands as 'Castle of Blood'. If you were expecting Grau's film, then you'll be dissapointed (as I was.)
Still, 'Ivanna' isn't that bad at all, although the print isn't too much of an improvement on the 20 year old dutch tape.

A young chemist, Ivanna Rakowski (Erna Schurer), travels to the castle of Baron Djalmar (Charles Quinney) to help him with a research project. Once there, she hears strange stories about her handsome employer and has nightmares in which she is stretched out naked on a torture rack. To make matters worse, a vicious killer is mutilating young village girls...
The film featured on this DVD is NOT Jorge Grau's "The Legend of Blood Castle" (1972), but José Luis Merino's "Ivanna" (a.k.a. "The Scream of the Demon Lover", 1971). Apparently, the version released in the States was trimmed by Roger Corman's New World when they distributed it on a double bill with "The Velvet Vampire", but this disc contains the full export print, complete with some nudity missing from the original Spanish/Italian language versions. Sadly, this is not the type of release this atmospheric example of early 70s Gothic deserves. The poor quality of the print, plus the fact that the original export (and UK theatrical) title, "The Killers of the Castle of Blood", has been changed, makes it clear that the disc has been sourced from some shoddy public domain copy. The rich colours of the beautifully photographed castle interiors can still be appreciated, but the image looks soft and there is lots of speckling. Apart from the letterboxed presentation, the disc does not improve on previous VHS incarnations of this movie. It's a real shame, because despite the plethora of loose ends and under-developed subplots that litter the story, "Ivanna" contains some genuinely creepy moments and warrants more attention than it has previously received. Hopefully, some quality conscious individuals will one day go back to the original vault materials and let the movie's full Gothic splendour shine through. If the distributers had done a proper job instead of releasing this murky botch-up, I would have given this product a much higher rating.

A not-bad Eurohorror that I saw years ago on vhs as SCREAM OF THE DEMON LOVER. It's pretty atmospheric in the European tradition. The plot is a bit messy but it has a few good twists and turns. Igor's character, with his love for idealised beauty contrasted with his total repulsion for sex (or even the desire for it) was interesting. Still nothing special overall, but worth seeing for fans.

Only one man could produce and direct a movie as outrageously stupid as The Creature From the Haunted Sea: Roger Corman. I might as well start with the monster. If you thought low-budget Japanese monster movies featured the most patently fake monsters in the cinematic universe, you haven't seen Corman's creature from the haunted sea. A kindergarten class could make a better monster out of shoelaces and a couple of buttons. You have to see it; I can't even begin to explain how ludicrous this monster is.

The story is also laughable. After Castro's revolution, counter-revolutionary forces have stolen the treasury of Cuba, and their plan is to sneak the gold off the island in an American boat. They choose Lorenzo because, according to their reasoning, the fact that he is an American gambler makes him beyond reproach. Lorenzo's crew is, in a word, unreal. First, there is his best girl Marybelle and her brother Happy Jack, who got his name from the twitch he developed from watching too many Humphrey Bogart movies. Next up is Pete Peterson, Jr., whom, as the narrator actually explains to us, is the son of Pete Peterson, Sr. Pete's only talent is his ability to mimic any and all kinds of animals, but he's never been the same since blowing his brain out of whack imitating a whooping crane years earlier. Then there is the "hero" of our story, an American spy who makes Maxwell Smart look like Albert Einstein. He never really understands what is going on, but he diligently reports his non-findings to headquarters using his home-made, undetectable radio set constructed using simulated hot dogs for knobs and tubes inside of dill pickles. His narration of the story is filled with incredibly philosophical statements such as "It was coming on dusk. I knew because the sun was going down." Getting back to the plot, the crooked Americans want the gold for themselves, so they hatch an elaborate plot to kill the Cuban soldiers on board one by one and make each death appear to be the work of a mythical sea creature. What they don't know is that the creature, as ridiculous as he is, actually does exist.

Featuring such unexplained oddities as a pay phone (with a steady stream of users) existing on a deserted island, this movie goes out of its way to insult the intelligence of every creature who ever harbored a conscious thought. As a result, the film is pretty darn funny at times, although one is hard pressed to see whether or not Corman intended this to be a comedy or a serious monster movie. I for one never know what Roger Corman could possible have been thinking.

Made as an afterthought on the trip back from some other shoot (a fairly typical Corman occurrence), CFHS is probably much too weird even for most fringe types who like Corman's other stuff to accept.
The setting is the Cuban Revolution, and Corman educates viewers on the conflict not with stock footage of some other war as Ed Wood might have done, but with Addams-style cartoons. The film's opening scenes are sharp- if easy- satire, relating a chase and the introductory meeting between the movie's nominal hero Sparks Moran and a female co-spy. Sparks is played by future Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Towne, who brings to mind Nicolas Cage's head on Alan Alda's body, and underplays his idiotic secret agent admirably. We learn that a chest of gold has been stolen from Cuba's treasury, and Moran is infiltrating the group of militants and mobsters who are trying to sail away with it.
They get on a sailing boat, and the mobsters plan to kill off the Cuban army members one-by-one, using a made-up creature as their cover. But a real monster shows up, and they have to alter their plans.
Some of the best comedy is in this section, as we meet a crewman capable of making animal noises, hear more of Moran's noodlehead pontificating, and when the mobster's moll sings a number without stopping during a machine gun shootout. I'm not aware of another filmmaker besides Corman working in satire like this by 1960.
But then their ship crashes on some reefs and they seek refuge on an (almost) deserted isle. The movie slows down and gets repetitive here, and additional scenes were shot to pad out its running time for TV. These are of a comedic level with Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki or even the abysmal Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla, as two crew members meet tropical ladies they fall in love with. Whereas the earlier sections were silly but (I daresay) ahead of their time, the hijinx in this portion you've mostly seen before. By the time the monster shows up and starts killing people again, the damage is done.
A few funny deadpan wisecracks are spread throughout, of the kind that might make Clouseau seem like Einstein: "It was coming on dusk. I knew because the sun was going down." But the movie dies a death far worse than the monster could ever inflict in its middle portion.
One step down from Little Shop of Horrors, a step-and-a-half from Bucket of Blood, if this flick would've stayed on the boat or Cuba and avoided the reefs altogether, it might have surpassed them both.
Quality note: I took 1 star off this otherwise 3-star flick for the poor quality. This dvd skipped all over the place in Chapters 1 and 2 of 4, so you may wish to try another version. But probably none of them are going to be wonderful. Alas, it's public-domain Corman, after all. Caveat Emptor.

The first time I saw this film was when I was 13 or so on a late night horror movie show in the mid sixties, I thought it was just a really dumb movie, but I liked it, I thought it was just someone trying to make a serious horror film that just turned out funny. When I saw the film for sale on DVD I just had to buy it, just to see if my boyhood memory of the film was true what I found was a film that must have been planed to be funny or at least I hope so, as a fan of really campie movies I have to rate The Creature from the Haunted Sea right up there with Plan 9 and other dumb movies, call me weird but I just like it its good for a giggle.

Man, whotta bomb! I will say that this movie has everything from civil war soldiers, hot air balloons, half nekkid dancing jungle girls, a long lost Frankenstein relative, zombies, and a special appearance *cough cough* by legendary actor John Carradine. This movie is pretty difficult to follow (and watch) as there is really no story, plot, etc. Some stuff happens, and then some other stuff happens, but none of it is really tied together. To say John Carradine is in this movie is a joke, as his footage was shot and then used in the movie, but it has no seeming relevance to what's happening in the movie. Plenty of laughs to be had, of the unintentional kind, but I would only recommend this movie to people who love bad movies or people who feel the need to fill some masochistic desire (they might be one in the same). This movie was truly painful to watch, but if you suffer from insomina, this works pretty good. This movie doesn't even deserve one star, but zero stars are not an option on this site.

This is BY FAR... the worst movie I have ever seen. The movie makes no sense. This movie is SO BAD... you will be humiliated to think you actually sat and endured the movie... that is... if you have the courage to wait through the movie... and you will... because you will want to find out what's going on. You will get suckered into watching the whole movie only to find there is NOTHING there. Nothing... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING makes sense. It's a waste if celluloid. MUST SEE... because it will make every subsequent movie-watching experience a true joy.

I won't tell you the plot, even though you probably have a good idea that there really isn't one that makes sense. This is a wacky,wild movie with people getting stranded on the island, scientist gone mad, psycho henchmen, bikini clad beauties and yes, there is the monster, whoa! If you like classic low budget B-Movie madness, don't pass this one up. A real twisted gem. Only for people with a good sense of humour.