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This low-budgeted picture is a monster-movie concerning about a Government Agent ( Robert Towne ) chasing a gangster named Renzo Capeto ( Anthony Carbone ), a mobster likeness to Bogart who along with his fiancée ( Betsy Jones Moreland ) and underlings are aboard ship with a group of exiled Cubans . Renzo schemes a plot to invent a mythical sea monster to eliminate the Cubans and steal the national treasure .

The film is a horror comedy blending parody , humor and suspense . The comedy is absurd and cheesy but gets some fine moments here and there. The movie has storyline gaps and is an embarrassing mess badly developed .However , it gets some amusing gag as the animal imitator hoodlum and the phone cabin on the island . Incredible cheap special effects with ridiculous rubber monster is a man suited attacking the ship crew though also there are good underwater scenes. The main actors ( Towne,Carbone,Moreland ), technicians ( cameraman ,Jack Marquette ) and writer ( Charles B.Griffith ) will repeat with Corman in subsequent films as ¨ A bucket of Blood ¨ and ¨ Last woman on earth ¨. Robert Towne is a prestigious director ( Tequila sunrise and Without limits ) and writer ( Mission impossible, the firm, Two jakes, Days and thunder ) , . The pic belongs to monster movie sub-genre which Corman directed during the 50-60s as ¨ Attack the crab monsters ¨, ¨ It conquered the world ( an Alien from Venus ), ¨ Beast with a million eyes ¨( other Alien ), ¨ Wasp man ¨, ¨ Viking women and great serpent ¨ or even a carnivorous plant as ¨ Little shop horrors ¨ though Corman also produced as ¨ Night of the blood beast ¨ and ¨ Attack of the giant leeches ¨( Bernard Kowalski ) . Rating : Below average , it's a real turkey .

There seems to be a lot of confusion about this film, judging by the reviews and the low rating. As should be obvious to any halfwit, "Creature from the Haunted Sea" isn't meant to be taken seriously and it isn't trying to be gripping or suspenseful or scary. It is in fact a completely unhinged example of filmic surrealism and is closer to Alfred Jarry than to William Castle or any of Corman's other horror films. Personally I loved every character in this mess. I loved Carbone doing Bogie in The African Queen and the deckhand with his feral yelps and Mama (who looked like a cross between Della Reese and Juanita Hall) in her flowered tutu and the girl named Mango...it goes on and on. I liked especially the way the strange off-kilter and mostly bad acting kept undermining any sense of stability in the formation of the characters' personnae.

Too bad that the Latin stereotypes serve to date the film. But still, the Cuban military men are undeniably funny in the way that all bureaucrats, of whatever color or persuasion, are funny.

The sound quality is unfortunately very poor, and this film is in serious need of restoration. But for those who don't take these things seriously, you will encounter something remarkably original and yes, funny. Also check out "The Last Woman on Earth" which uses the same shooting locale and some of the same actors but overlays a basically simple post-apocalypse plot with ponderous existential musings.

As the back cover of a DVD of it points out, this movie parodies a dozen different movie things - social comment (the Cuban Revolution), monsters, gangsters, spies, beatniks (to some degree), impromptu singing, cameos by the film-makers, Bogart movies, even South Pacific (I think). And Betsy Jones-Moreland makes one of the great movie molls (in comedies OR dramas). This story is the first and last place I've heard the phrase "crazy-looking" - "crazy" in the "beat" sense of the word, making it a compliment - but I've always wanted to use it. And of course, there's Antony Carbone as a villain you start to feel sorry for, because he's surrounded by incompetents, and Robert Towne as the incompetent hero, who tries to make himself sound better in the narration, but fails even THEN. There are many little moments that really work - the impromptu song with the really clumsy lyrics (even though it's a romantic song, it has the title of the movie worked into it), the cameo by Roger Corman himself where he seems to be trying to make Robert Towne laugh, and of course the aliases. There's one little thing it took me a long while to notice. In one scene, "Sparks" is trying to rescue "Marybelle" (who hates him) from drowning (which she isn't). She gets fed up and hits him, and (though I'm not at all sure), instead of sounding "dubbed in", it sounds like Moreland got carried away and hit him for real. Deliberately clumsy-looking films (not just horror ones, of course) have gotten much TOO common lately (taking a lot of the novelty away from it), but Creature From The Haunted Sea really works.

Another Z- budget gem from Roger Corman . A playful and witty send up of horror thrillers mixing gangsters , fleeing revolutionaries and a sea monster .Some great hip dialogue together with loads of quirky ideas . Clearly , it's just meant to be a bit of fun and on that score it works well.

This is a film without any concept of quality. It makes a mockery of character, place, and plot, casually and thoroughly, almost subversive in its contempt for form and content. Have fun watching and thinking about the two or three days the cast and crew spent filming this and wondering exactly what they thought they were doing. Though it has slow moments, I have enjoyed this film all three times I've seen it. Underrated for sheer strangeness.

So many people seem to believe that this was supposed to be a straight-up horror film. It is anything but that. Creature From the Haunted Sea is a broad farce first, a political satire second, and finally a horror film/creature feature third. In fact, the said creature in the title has barely a presence in this film at all.

Roger Corman obviously wanted to make a silly comedy with political undertones about the times, but always the businessman, he knew to throw in a monster and cool sounding title to bring in the ticket buying public. Folks need to realize when they watch this to not expect a nail biting thriller or blood curdling horror film. This is comedy all the way.

The film is about an American gangster who agrees to transport a couple of Cuban military officers and some of their men off the island after Castro's revolution. They also bring along a large part of the Cuban treasury. Also aboard the boat is an undercover spy for the American government, who is trying to figure out what all is going on. The gangster also has his girlfriend with him and a couple of hired hands, one of which is his girlfriends brother and the other a strange fellow who makes animal noises all the time. The gangster decides he would like the money the Cubans have brought along for his own and decides to bump them off one by one, blaming things on a local legend about a sea monster. Unfortunately for him, it turns out that the legend is true and there is really a sea monster.

The acting in this film is fine for what it is and the actors play their roles like they should. Its a Corman picture so you know its a cheapie, as the monster is one of the silliest looking creatures I have ever seen. I really didn't laugh at anything in the movie, though it caused me to elicit a small chuckle a couple of times. The picture moved along briskly enough and wasn't a bore, though it didn't thrill me either. My biggest gripe is that so many DVD companies who have released this try to pass it off as a serious horror film. Anyone expecting that will be sadly disappointed.

Not a terrible movie, but not what you would probably expect either.

I really never heard of this movie before until I bought "Horror Classics" from Wal-Mart which is basically 50 "supposed" horror classics in one set.

One thing is certain THIS IS NOT A HORROR MOVIE AND IT SHOULDN'T BE IN A SET OF HORROR CLASSICS EITHER.

Like what I stated above this movie isn't a horror movie at all. It's just a pathetic poorly acted and directed wannabe comedy. The chase scene at the beginning was the only thing I thought was good. After that scene was over it just became more boring with each passing minute.

It was also annoying towards the end where new characters just started to pop in. Reading other reviews on this site I can understand that the film was not meant to be taken seriously, but still..it was so awful.

There are many bad movies that are entertaining enough to still be watchable. Sometimes people don't get parody and are unfair to movies. There is a third category. Movies that aren't campy or funny; they are just plain awful. A junior high kid with a camcorder could make a better film than this. Just because Roger Corman made it, people are willing to give it the benefit of a doubt. I would be willing to bet they had a little leftover film, a couple more days on the island, and decided to play a joke on the public. That anyone would plunk down ten cents on anything like this amazes me. I have a love of bad sci fi. I remember the guy with the gorilla suit and the diving helmet. This isn't that good. Characters with names like Mango and a couple of people who make animal sounds; a plot that is really non existent. Yes, I know it's tongue in cheek, but it has absolutely nothing going for it. Tongue in cheek needs to be clever. This is the antithesis of clever.

After the Cuban Revolution, the mobster Renzo Capetto (Antony Carbone) and his lover Mary-Belle Monahan (Betsy Jones-Moreland) transport a group of exiled Cubans led by General Tostada (Edmundo Rivera Alvarez) to the United States with a Cuban treasure to finance a counterrevolution against Castro. However, Renzo and his gang formed by Pete Peterson Jr. (Beech Dickerson), Happy Jack Monahan (Robert Bean) and Sparks Moran (Edward Wain), who is indeed the American Agent XK150, plan to steal the treasure from the Cuban people.

They fabricate a sea monster to change the course to San Juan and kill Cuban soldiers. However they discover that the creature does exist and is attacking them all.

"Creature from the Haunted Sea" is an awfully lame and silly Z-movie by Roger Corman. The comedy and the horror never works and the acting, direction, narration, effects and make-up are really dreadful. My vote is two.

Title (Brazil): "Criaturas do Fundo do Mar" {"Creatures from the Bottom of the Sea")

I disagree with several of the other reviewers who state that this film is typical Roger Corman. It isn't. Films like Little Shop of Horrors and A Bucket of Blood are Corman quickies AND masterpieces, but this film was only a quickie and a stinker! It is awful in every fiber of its being. The production values are SO low that the film quality is grainy, the sound just audible, the sets and design pieces barely functional, and the acting...yes let's talk about the acting...the acting is incredibly bad by all concerned. In point of fact, there is not one good performance in the whole film. Anthony Carbone is wasted in the role of a gangster...the part too big for his supporting abilities I imagine. Betsy Jones-Moreland croons a song and throws dice through her scenes and utters lines with a complete lack of conviction. Robert Towne is unfunny and thoroughly unlikable in his role as a spy/secret agent aboard a ship carrying Cubans and their gold from Cuba. The worst performance, however, and I say this without any...ANY..hesitation is the guy that makes ridiculous animal sounds throughout the picture and is a jack-ass of epic proportions in every scene he is in. I mean this guy is so bad he couldn't be an extra in a Herschell Gordon Lewis picture! This film, plainly put, sucks!

Only if you can appreciate the offbeat sense of wacky humor Roger Corman brings to life in this film will you truly appreciate it..this is in many ways a spoof of the monster on the loose and the spy film genres but at the same time it also seems to be laughing at itself. Notably Corman makes a cameo in which that's all he does--smiles and laughs at this movie's ridiculous lead character - a numbskull secret spy government agent.

Clearly this film was never meant to be taken as seriously as some seem to take it. The biggest flaw with it however is it's too slow-moving...it takes forever before we get any kind of resolution. The highly entertaining rampage of the Monster at the end does make up for somewhat for the slow opening half. But once again I recommend this only for Corman staunchest fans.

It would be hard to imagine this film being anything more than a parody of the sci-fi, horror and mystery genres. It's got a government secret agent more inept than Maxwell Smart keeping tabs on mobster Renzo Capetto (Antony Carbone) who's a Humphrey Bogart wanna-be, and a crew member who can mimic any animal he's ever heard perfectly. This he does rather often, though no purpose is served other than to provide comic relief in a film that relies heavily on it. Throw in attractive Betsy Jones-Moreland as a love interest for both Agent XK 150 (Robert Towne) and Renzo, and you've got the makings for about as much nonsense as can be packed into a seventy minute film, if you can stand it for that long.

As Renzo places his services at the hands of Cuban refugees and a strongbox filled with gold, he intends to kill off members of the exiled group while filling their heads with tales of a mythic sea monster. This story of robbery, double cross and murder is interrupted by the appearance of a real creature, looking very much like Cookie Monster on steroids. Meanwhile agent XK occasionally reports in to Washington with his observations, usually stating that the case is about to break wide open.

Roger Corman whipped this gem out on the shoestring that followed "The Last Woman on Earth", filmed in the same location and with the key players appearing in both films (Towne, Carbone and Moreland). One can only imagine the state of mind of the actors coming out of these two rather inane offerings. Roger Corman has certainly done better, and these two could have been phoned in more effectively. As another reviewer pointed out, these pictures would best be viewed in the company of some wacky friends with just enough attention span to pan the living daylights out of them.

Once this thing came to a conclusion, I sat for a minute and thought about how I wanted to punch Corman and Griffith in their respective chops for inflicting this movie on me.

Based on the lines the actors spout at various points in the movie, this is apparently supposed to be a comedy of sorts, the same way "Little Shop Of Horrors" and "Bucket Of Blood" were horror-comedies. Well, for whatever reasons, those movies worked, and boy this one sure doesn't.

Comedy is hard. Timing is everything in a comedy, and a spoof only works if the timing and art direction in it are better than whatever the subject of the spoof is. With its washed out, smeary photography and muddy, barely understandable vocals, and barely-there non- performances, it's obvious in the first minute that this movie is too raw and unpolished to get the timing right. A few more takes, a little bit better blocking, a few rewrites of a couple of the dopier scenes in the screenplay...even a more careful edit to weed out some of the dead air and draggy spots..."Creature" might have been at least mildly amusing. Or if they'd given up on the comedy and done a straight monster flick, it would have been a "5" instead of the "3".

"Creature" isn't even especially good for a movie shot in less than 10 days. You can give this one a miss if you see it offered on cable or a late night horror host show.

Stupid, boring attempt by Roger Corman to blend horror and humor in yet another cheap, cheesy quickie. This time, Corman manages to get Robert Towne (writer of such cinematic gems as Personal Best and Chinatown) to "act" as secret agent XJ150, who attaches himself to a group of brainless mobsters out to steal the Cuban treasury. They manage to cowvince their dim-witted Cuban soldiers that a sea monsters is responsible for killing them, except the real monster shows up to cowfuse the issue. Now, the MooCow uses the term "real monster" pretty loosely here. The "monster" is a swatch of plastic kelp, sporting two ping-pong balls for eyes, and two diver's flippers for feet. It is singularly unscary and unfunny. Betsy Jones-Moreland, a long-time B actress, plays the lounge-singing gun moll with a heart of plaster. When not crooning "Creature from the Haunted Sea", she spends much of the film rolling dice in a bathing suit. Another cretin "talks" in animal sounds, for pretty much no reason. How this miserable moovie managed not to be MST3K-ified, is beyond this cow. Low production values, including audio that sounds like it's projecting from the sea monster's butt, and poor lighting further muddle the film. The MooCow says typical Corman, avoid if possible. :=8P

As a producer and director Roger Corman is certainly well experienced in the business of putting out bad, cheesy, second-rate (or third-rate or even worse) horror movies. He has a resume the size of Mt. Everest, and while I haven't (thankfully) seen very many of his films, they generally share one thing in common - they're pretty bad (although the exception that proves the rule in this case is "Attack of the Giant Leeches," which I actually liked.) "Creature From the Haunted Sea" exceeds anything else Corman has put out though in its absolute dreadfulness. Revolving around a government agent, who narrates most of the movie in what seemed to be an attempt to imitate (not very well) Humphrey Bogart, it's the story of the attempt to kill a bunch of anti-Castro Cubans who are escaping the island with most of the Cuban treasury and then to steal their wealth. Concocting a story about a sea monster to explain the deaths, everyone is surprised when the sea monster turns out to be real.

What can you say about this. It surely can't be a serious horror movie, because it ain't even remotely scary - not even for a moment. There seems to be a lot of genuine attempts at humour - but the attempts are failed ones. The humour is either stupid (like the crewman who spends most of his time imitating animal sounds) or bad ("It was dusk. I knew that because the sun was going down.") It's topped off by one of the most pathetic looking monsters I've ever seen. It's terrible - just terrible.

Usually I'm pretty charitable to this kind of low-budget flick, since these people work just as hard (and in most cases, much harder) than their big-studio counterparts to make movies and to me the difference between oh, say, this and "Scream" usually has more to do with money than talent.

This one is different. No attention to plot, etc, no attempt to create suspense, etc. The whole freebooters preying on the Cuban revolution thing is a underexplored angle for a better movie. This one, however, sucks. Even an infomerical would be a better choice. Avoid.

This is one of Roger Corman's trilogy of comedy-horrors. It has a comedic appeal that may be overlooked by those expecting the seriousness of a straightforward sea-monster flick.

If you approach it as an absurdist comedy, there is a lot of humor to be found in it. For example,the guy who makes animal noises and the protagonist spy-hero's self-important monologues are very funny in a Mad-Magazine-satire way.

The lead hoodlum character bears resemblance to a seafaring Humphrey Bogart! All in all, a fun caper film with dark humor. I give it 7 out of 10 stars based mostly on its originality, the weird monster, and the high SATIRIC content.

"Creature from the Haunted Sea" is, in my sincere opinion, one of the worst movies ever made. Looking at this pathetic horror/comedy from schlockmeister Roger Corman, I get the harrowing impression that he wasn't even *attempting* to make a good B-movie; not even what we call the "'good' bad movie." And this is the impression that I get with all of Corman's movies (most of which that I have seen, thankfully, have been with Joel and the bots riffing in the foreground.) Here's the 'plot.' "Creature from the Haunted Sea" is a part-serious monster movie and part-comedy and the blend is atrocious. Robert Towne plays an undercover espionage agent with great intelligence (he informs us that he can tell when dusk is coming because "the sun is setting") who joins up with an American crook smuggling stolen gold out of Cuba. The crook (Antony Carbone) decides to knock off his companions and blame their deaths on the legendary sea monster, which later turns out to be real. In plot, this sounds like a straight horror B-movie. But don't be fooled. If Corman had taken this route, maybe "Creature from the Haunted Sea" would have been enjoyably bad or at least just laughably bad. As it is, a comedy/horror, it's unbearably bad.

We see very little of the monster and spend most of the time watching Corman try to entertain us with jokes. Apart from Towne's jokes about government training, we have a commonly repeated cliché joke where a sleeping man in a top bunk is startled, rises up, hits himself on the head and knocks himself unconscious. Corman choreographs the scene and the actor so poorly that it takes us a while to realize what happened, seeing as how the actor's head was clearly more than six inches away from the ceiling. And it's not funny. There's also a sorry constant gag about this man who thinks he's a wild animal and can speak monkey lingo. Then there's the always unfunny jag of island romances that are supposed to be funny but just really open boredom instead of hearts. There's also some telephone conversations and government talk that is supposed to be funny, including a cameo by director Corman, that is nothing but sheer dead space.

Isn't it amusing that the movie is supposed to be part comedy and part horror and that only the horror parts - the parts meant to be serious - produce the laughs. How so? Just look at the monster: the most memorable element in the movie; memorable only in its buffoonish fakery. The monster costume was made from stuff in the garbage can and *looks like it.* A man covered in rags with a conical head, ping-pong eyes, pipe cleaner 'claws' does not scare or entertain, only induces a laugh. As horrible as this costume looks, I would have settled for more of it. Because during the climax, where we finally get some screen time, the monster would have had me laughing...if only I weren't so rundown and bored and exhausted by the previous hour of the movie. Seen by itself, the climax can make you roll on the floor laughing. But seen after the rest of the movie, even it fails to amuse.

There is *nothing* in "Creature of the Haunted Sea" worth remembering. The only thing you can remember is a) the phoniness of the monster and b) how bad it is. It's better for a movie to be forgettably bad than memorably bad like this piece of garbage (I save that choice of words for only movies of the absolute lowest value). It just sheer dead space, comatosingly boring, and really, really hard to sit through. The comedy elements are incredibly dull, the acting is unenthusiastic, nobody is even *trying* to make a good picture, the theme song sung by Betsy Jones-Moreland is dull, plodding, and hard to hear (the audio sucks), and Roger Corman is completely dull as a director. At least Ed Wood tried a few times, I think. He made trash, too, but only his very worst comes within the same league as "Creature from the Haunted Sea."

Roger Corman has directed all kinds of movies and produced another fair share of stuff; from his classic adaptations of Poe's stories to the cult classic "Little shop of Horrors", his movies display a great amount of creativity and while maybe not a talented director, one can't deny that his imagination has no limits. With that said, it is no surprise that one of the most strange pieces of absurd comedy comes from him.

The bizarre plot has Agent XK150 (Robert Towne) working undercover inside gangster Renzo Capeto's (Antony Carbone) gang in order to catch him. Capeto has a plan to steal Cuban gold by pretending to help former Cuban Generals to escape from Castro's new regime; during the trip, they'll kill the Cubans pretending to be a Sea Monster. What they don't know is that a real Sea Monster will kill them first.

Written by Charles B. Griffith and directed by Corman himself, "Creature from the Haunted Sea" is a comedy-horror movie that is deliberately nonsensical, stupid and illogical, and while terribly flawed, this exercise of surrealism is so wacky and that becomes entertaining, as one can only wonder what is going on in this mess. The movie feels as if Corman had instructed Griffith to came up with whatever he could to use the remaining of previous movies (including locations, stock footage and audio recordings).

From the absurd multitude of aliases the characters use, to the very actions of our inept hero, the movie is filled with comical nonsense that goes from wacky to idiotic and vice-versa. Still, the comedy (both voluntary and involuntary) works and the movie manages to be entertaining. Logic is the less important thing in the movie as it parodies basically everything (from Bogart and espionage to horror films and the Cuban revolution) with average results.

The bizarre plot and apparently deliberate absurd comedy is probably a virtue and a flaw. It is definitely an original take on comedy but it gets old very quickly and the random wackiness soon become childish stupidity at times making the film drag a bit. The cheap special effects look good in the film's context and the Sea Monster is now an icon of cheap B-Movies of the era.

The acting is appropriate for the movie, and while the cast may not be the most talented actors in the world (Robert Town is definitely better writing than acting), they certainly put a lot of heart in the performances. As in most Corman movies, talent is not a must-have, but heart is definitely required. It's worth to point out that Edmundo Rivera and the actors playing the Cuban army were very good in their small roles.

"Creature from the Haunted Sea" is not an easy film to recommend, as its style of comedy together with its cheap effects make it hard to swallow. However, with a good attitude and disposition to leave the brain outside it can make for some laughs with friends. This bizarre surrealist comedy is undeniably a classic of low-budget film-making, and one of Corman's most famous films of the 60s. 6/10

This film was one I had low expectations of. The plot is a mafia man scams Cuban revolutionaries into giving him the treasury's gold, and then he tries to kill them while sailing away. And wouldn't you know it, I really dislike movies about boats. Except "Titanic"...

But I grossly misunderestimated this film. It shouldn't even be a horror film at all. Yes, it has a creature from the haunted sea in it. But it's just so damn FUNNY. The creature is so fake, and the characters are all so silly - even the main character, a spy named XK-150 who infiltrates the Mafia men (the leader of which was deported for being drunk in the Waldorf Astoria and nominating Mussolini for the Republican presidential ticket). The plot just gets stranger and stranger, and despite it being on a boat - I was just waiting to see what weird stuff would happen next.

The only bad thing I can say (ignoring the quality of film/audio that I will blame on the time period) is they poorly advertised this film. The film said it was starring Robert Towne as XK-150. Which is true, but who knows who Towne is??? They should have said "directed by Roger Corman", who happens to be one of the greatest horror directors ever -- his Edgar Allen Poe adaptations with Vincent Price are historic, his "Little Shop of Horrors" is legendary, and of course there's the cult classic "Deathrace 2000"... so poor choice of people to highlight.

This film recommended! For everyone!

I am a huge fan of bad movies, my father and I regularly watch a movie because it has a terrible review.

There were many funny moments for example the lines "it was dusk I could tell 'cause the sun was going down" and "I did the only thing a trained American agent could, I got the hell outta there." But the whole movie felt somewhat pointless.

I know many people have stood up for the movie saying that it has real comedic value but this movie was so bad i just felt embarrassed watching it was actually painful. In the last ten minutes the movie does improve but I do think that, that may have been because most of the characters were dead.

Roger Corman is a major figure in the world of low budget pictures and he brought pace ,energy and wit to a wide variety of cinematic genres .I will maintain to my dying day the The St Valentine's Day Massacre is the best post World War 2 gangster picture bar none and his Poe adaptations are stylish ,elegant and finely wrought . However it is idle to pretend that his career does not have its share of dross and this tedious nonsense is a severe test to viewer patience. Its plot revolves around a scare story invented by a gang of U S adventurers who try to scare off treasure hunters with tales of a monster guarding the treasure .Guess what -turns out there is a monster after all and he wreaks havoc on the gang .

The tone is intended to be humourous -the gang leader is played as a Bogart parody ,there is a bungling and inept US spy ,a gangsters moll and -most teeth clenchingly irritating of all - a crew member who communictes mostly in bird and animal noises .Add some dated Latino stereotypes and a laughable inept monster and even at artound 70 minutes this an ordeal.

To work a comedy horror needs to be funny and horrific -this is neither,

I've only seen Creature From the Haunted Sea the once and is one of Roger Corman's poorer efforts. He has certainly made better movies than this.

A crook and some others head for a Caribbean island and as he plans to kill some of these on the way, he decides to make up a story that a sea monster killed these people. What he doesn't know is that a sea monster does really exist and it then appears, causing panic and is rather hungry. The monster attacks the ship and kills some of the people and disappears to the bottom of the sea.

The monster in Creature From the Haunted Sea looks rather pathetic, a mutated version of the gill man. It has ping-pong-ball eyes and large teeth showing and is actually a man in a rubber suit.

This would have been better if it was a drama, not a comedy. The cast is mostly made up of unknowns and their acting is rather poor.

Come on Roger, you can do better then this.

Rating: 1 and a half stars out of 5.

this was probably the most boring movie i've ever seen. not only is it boring, but the sound quality sucks, and you can barely tell what the hell is going on. the monster is the most fake looking thing i've ever seen. its some guy who looks like Cookie Monster covered in seaweed. this movie sucks so much, no wonder it was featured on "The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made." The 'monster' doesn't even appear until halfway through the film, neither is it mentioned, and when you finally see it, it's so disappointing!! i was never a fan of Roger Corman, but this is ridiculous! Roger Corman is one of those annoying overrated B-Movies that you want to destroy so bad. well, this is it! this is the movie i wanted to impound into the dirt, so no sci fi fan will ever find it and be disappointed by this...this...THIS! 0/10

*** Contains a small - not-so-secret spoiler *** It was dusk, I could tell because the sun was going down.

Thank you Roger Corman, my life is fuller for that piece of wisdom. And all the other moments of zen packed into this hour plus of pure unadulterated camp. But what do you expect from a movie that starts with someone getting his white canvas tennies shined? But here we have in its shining glory a film noir style horror/spy movie that would make the Zucker family proud.

Basic plot summary: After regime change in Cuba the people changed (apparently they all grew beards) and the sore losers of the regime hired an American hood to help transfer the national treasury out of Castro's hands. Good news an American spy is here to save the day with a fake mustache he could have "killed himself" for wearing, decoder rings, and lunchbox radios. Good thing too, because the hood has the most ruthless of associates, a piece of eye candy, Opie Griffith, and Dr. Seuss's Mr Brown from Mr Brown can Moo. Chaos ensues when greed takes over.

If you like campy z rated movies this one does not disappoint. It is filled with many "what the ...." moments that keep you entertained in this other wise slow movie including a musical interlude, a convenient pay phone, and tourist savvy natives. Not to mention Sigmund the sea monster's older "green trash" cousin and the most lethal toilet plunger in history. All in all one of the best campy movies I have yet found - recommend with lots of friends and beverages.