Monster from the Ocean Floor

Buy This Item Monster from the Ocean Floor  Available from Amazon  $7.97  on 12-7-2008     Features Actors: Roger Corman, David Garcia, Jonathan Haze, Anne Kimbell, Inez Palange Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, 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 Rating: Studio: Rhino Theatrical DVD Release Date: August 14, 2001 Run Time: 64 minutes Average Customer Review:   7 Reviews 5 star:    (0) 4 star:    (0) 3 star:  (5) 2 star:  (2) 1 star:    (0) See all 7 customer reviews...   (7 customer reviews) Reader Reviews The Monster From the Ocean Floor (1954), produced by Roger Corman, is a really good example of why he always made money with his films. By duping a popular subject or theme of the time, in this case the giant atomic monster craze of the 50's, hiring unknown actors and production crew cheaply, setting an incredibly tight production schedule, sinking as little money as possible into production, and coming up with a fantastic and sensation title and advertising campaign...and it worked. Lemme take a moment to talk about the director, Wyott Ordung. Never heard of him? Well, if you like B-movies, you should be familiar with some of his work. As a writer, he penned such classics as Robot Monster (1953) and Target Earth (1954), the latter actually being pretty good. But wait, he was also an actor, actually appearing in Monster From the Ocean Floor. Writer/actor/director? A triple threat, to be sure. Anyway, the movie stars a couple of actors not really worth mentioning, playing a blonde vacationing in Mexico (you can tell this in the beginning as she's donning a giant sombrero with the word 'Mexico' embroidered on it...how tacky) and a less than hunky marine biologist who actually has an incredibly bad musical performance about halfway through as he plucks a guitar and warbles on in some sort of strange mating ritual meant to impress the blonde woman but just ended up revolting this viewer. So the blonde woman learns of a 'devil' creature within the cove eating local residents and various animals. She also learns that the attacks begin about 1946, around the time the Bikini Island atomic testing began. Okay, so radiation fallout has caused some kind of embiggening of a sea creature, and it is now feeding within the cove. Taking an odd interest in these happenings, she decides to investigate. Her new friend, the marine biologist, poo poos the idea and chalks it up to superstition and proposes the attacks are caused by a shark. After a number of solo scuba excursions into the cove (not the brightest idea, if I may add), the woman finally does encounter a creature, and it's discovered to be a form of life we normally don't see. I thought it was going to be a giant octopus, and it actually looked like one, but that was wrong. The creature, who we get to see for a total of about two minutes, looks like something made for another film that got rejected because of it's silliness. I suppose it was probably too expensive to show it more, and, you know what? It was probably for the best that it had the limited screen time that it did. The acting, along with the dialogue, is extremely clunky, causing a copious amount of groaning on my part. A very silly subplot was thrown in, one involving the local residents (all two of them) deciding that they should sacrifice the 'fairest of them all' (meaning the blonde) to the sea 'devil', in hopes to appease it and keep it from depopulating the tiny village even more. The underwater scenes involving the main characters swimming around in scuba gear were pretty nice, although sometimes a little too murky or blurry to really be enjoyed. I did like the biologist's little man powered submarine, and it was quite maneuverable. Thankfully the film only runs for 64 minutes. The movie does have some merits, but ultimately gets dragged to the depths of banality by the various aspects I've already mentioned. For under ten bucks, I wasn't expecting much, and I didn't get much. The picture does look pretty good, with minimal deterioration, and there are absolutely no special features except for chapter stops. All in all, cheaply done non-thriller that will have you rooting for the monster to finish the cast and provide a quick end to this lack luster affair. Cookieman108  Comment | Permalink |  function showYesNoCommunityResponse(uId,result,value) { var msgLayer = getElement("thanks" + uId); if ( result == "SUCCESS" ) { msgLayer.innerHTML = "Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.com readers and reviewers. Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."; } else { showVoteErrorResponse(msgLayer,result,value); } } (Report this)

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