Product Details

• Actors: Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne, Beach Dickerson, Robert Bean
• Directors: Roger Corman
• Writers: Charles B. Griffith
• Producers: Roger Corman, Charles Hannawalt
• Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Alpha Video
• DVD Release Date: June 4, 2002
• Run Time: 63 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000067IW6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #182,916 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Creature From the Haunted Sea" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

A minor classic, Creature from the Haunted Sea is unlike any other American film of the period. This monster film parody takes swipes at every manner of movie convention - subtitles, musical interludes, etc. **** In Castro's Cuba, a ragtag group of loyalists hire an American gangster to smuggle out the nation's treasury. Their boat cruise becomes a nightmare when and undersea monster begins picking them off one by one. This comedy of errors has an intriguing cast of weird characters. Secret agent Sparks Moran, played by the (future) Academy Award winning screen-writer Robert Towne (Chinatown, Shampoo), is billed as Edward Wain. The screenplay is the product of the prolific Charles B. Griffith who also wrote Corman's Little Shop of Horrors and many others.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the all time greats!!!, May 4, 2007

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Johny Bottom "Insane and lonely guitarist" (Jacksonville, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creature from the Haunted Sea (DVD)

This movie has it all! Sexy women, violence, secret agents, lost treasure, and a monster. What more could any viewer want? Or deserve?

The narrater of the film is also the secret agent of the movie. You think James Bond had cool stuff? Well this dude doesn't need Q. He makes his own stuff. He has a radio made of frankfurters and pickles! His insight is deeper than the sea itself. "The sun was beginning to set. I could tell because it was getting dark". That's observationm at it's finest. I'm glad he's on our side!

OK the movie is about escaping Cuba with a strongbox full of gold from the Cuban treasury. The crooks are trying to double-cross the Cubans as they escape. They try to scare the Cubans with stories of a monster, but there is a real monster!!!

The characters in this movie are entertaining and draw you in like a fish on the line. The head crook thinks he is Humprhey Bogart filming a remake of Key Largo. His main squeeze is a stacked blonde with enough sass for five golddiggers. There is another dude who communicates in animal sounds only, and another henchman talks somewhere between Popeye and Froggy from 'Our Gang'.

Now for the monster. He is an indescribable horror! Large bulging eyes (that resemble ping pong balls), giant claws for hands (Which resemble yard rakes from Sears Robuck), a huge mouth full of razor sharp teeth (the mouth cannot move or close), and a huge shaggy body (which resembles a cross between a fur coat and a guile suit worn by a US Marine Corps sniper). Simply horrifying.

This movie must be watched at least 10 times to fully appreciate it. You will see something different every time.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars BRUCE says, October 26, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Creature From the Haunted Sea (DVD)

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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Corman Cranks 'Em Out!, October 3, 2004

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Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein "bigfootsalienbaby" (under the rubble) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Creature From the Haunted Sea (DVD)

CREATURE FROM HAUNTED SEA isn't so bad when you consider that Roger Corman made it along with two other movies (The Last Woman On Earth, and Battle Of Blood Island) almost simultaneously in Puerta Rico! The casts are interchanchable. The storylines of the three couldn't be any more different from each other! CFHS is a silly, semi-interesting spy / monster flick with what resembles a pop-eyed, rubber-gloved christmas tree as the monster! Need I say more? I like it enough to watch it every once in a while. Check it out...