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Roger CormanCreature from the Haunted Sea (1961)

When a Carribean Island is engulfed by a revolution, one unscrupulous American mobster, Renzo Capeto plans to clean up with a get-rich-quick scheme. His diabolical plan is to provide refuge for the loyalists, and the contents of the government coffers, on his boat. He would then murder his passenger and escape with a fortune. Planning to blame their deaths on a mythical sea monster, no one is more surprised than Renzo, when the real monster appears with its own agenda.


This movie is part of the collection: Sci-Fi / Horror

Director: Roger Corman
Audio/Visual: Mono, Black and White
Keywords: Horror; Crime; Comedy
Contact Information: http://shortfilms.tk/

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Verified1 - - November 15, 2007
Subject: Hilarious
This movie was so idiotic, that it had us in stitches. Should have been a old Mystery Science Theater topic. Not to be missed.

Reviewer: filmsplice - - August 1, 2007
Subject: Nice
Funny stuff. Sure there's dated humor that would be lost on many younger viewers, but the Bogart/African Queen parody elements work well, and this could've been a good midnight movie selection in the hazy days of the past. Not really a horror movie, and not great, but quirky and well worth seeing.

Reviewer: krougeau - - July 30, 2007
Subject: Hands down...
This is definately my all time favorite cheesy b-movie.

Reviewer: Shadows_Girl - - July 23, 2007
Subject: CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED DRIVE-IN
I suppose the Age of the Drive-In Movie needs some explaining here. Once Upon a Time, when the soil was brown and the air WASN'T, there were Drive-In Theaters EVERYWHERE. And sometimes a teenage boy (and his girl) and maybe another couple or two, would pool their dough and take in the show at these places. There were snack bars for the food, smoking was allowed (why not? You were in your own car) and, since the show really didn't get going until after dark, a certain amount of what we used to call "necking" (and sometimes more) went on in the car also.

So it didn't matter a whole heck of a lot what was on the screen. In fact, the worse the film was...the better (for necking purposes). This is why films like CREATURE and all those beach party movies, and the rest were so wildly popular. They were usually good enough to be fun (the parts you actually SAW) but not so good you got glued to the screen the way people tend to expect to be THESE days. (And they have a right to expect that what with the high cost of going to one of these little matchbox theaters to see ONE movie. In my day you went to the drive-in...got a newsreel, a cartoon, some scenes of coming attractions, and TWO movies. And the whole thing...with gas and the snack bar... probably didn't cost you more than about six bucks...maybe ten if you brought the kids or were double-dating).
It was a different world, my children...and while some of it sucked...the Cold War, the House Unamerican Activities Committee, and all of that...there were some bright spots too.

Now, as to whether or not Betsy Jones-Moreland, Anthony Carbone, and "Edward Wain" (who is really noted film-maker and screen-writer Robert Towne---you may remember him picking up the Oscar for CHINATOWN back in 1975)could ACT. Well, these three did another Corman film together called LAST WOMAN ON EARTH...only that one they took a LITTLE more seriously and, if you check it out...you'll find that, surprisingly, they weren't bad.


I give this one my highest rating because, while some of the humor is dated...hell, so am I...and a good laugh is worth a lot.

Reviewer: beirwer - - February 28, 2007
Subject: Just for fun
Sheesh, some people seem to think everything has to be Citizen Kane. This movie was made just for fun, and that's what it is. Watch it and decide for yourself.

Reviewer: LaMarr Bruister - - December 9, 2006
Subject: Untitled
Hilarious monster movie spoof from the team that brought us "A Bucket of Blood" and "The Little Shop of Horrors."

Reviewer: Prof John - - June 17, 2006
Subject: Cookie Monster from the Sea
totally inane movie and, except for the precurser of Cookie Monster as the creature from the depths, a total waste of time

Reviewer: surfvh - - March 25, 2006
Subject: You either love Corman or . . . You Don't!
Since I'm a "don't" I'll explain why. It's difficult to see what Corman is trying to do in this film. He seems unable to figure out if he is making a slapstick comedy, an adventure drama, a kids' cartoon, a 60's monster film, or what. For anyone trying to delve for any subliminal or subtly hidden deep meaning, you hit bottom before you even get your fingernails wet (maybe you bump into the SpongeBob monster's head). He also seemed to have filmed using people who showed up at random and were free (drunks from a bar perhaps or his friends). His pacing is incredibly choppy, the dialog usually is out of context, and the attempts at humor and drama fall so flat it's really rather pitiful. I've seen other films with a budget of $0.00 (it couldn't have been more) that are very watchable. The pity is that someone couldn't have been there when he began filming and paid him not to make it.

Reviewer: Big Screen Guy - - February 12, 2006
Subject: Good fun
Maxwell Smart fans will love this one. Unfortunately, the sound could be better.

Reviewer: jimelena - - December 19, 2005
Subject: Horror, crime, comedy
Here's one of those strange catagories, "horror, crime, comedy". This one can be explained, it was a horror, a crime, and a comedy that this film was ever made.

Reviewer: wilbrifar - - September 12, 2005
Subject: i love this film...
...and have ever since I saw it on a saturday afternoon on an Atlanta local station. People often call movies like this "bad" simply because of low production values. But when you consider the budgets Corman had, and weigh them against the entertainment he sqeezed from it, his films were better than most of the $100 million movies that clutter the multiplexes today.

The highlight of this movie is the hilarious title song, crooned by Betsy Jones-Moreland. It's just a generic love song with "...and the Creature from the Haunted Sea" jammed in at the end. Even at this early stage, Corman was poking fun at cliched movie conventions.

And who'd have thought the inept secret agent would go on to write "Chinatown"?

A wonderful movie; Corman's early work should be taught in all film classes as examples of how to use imagination above dollars.

Reviewer: moxey - - September 12, 2005
Subject: Corman fans only
this is more of a comedy than a horror film.
an inept secret agent-
a gangster doing his best Bogart impersonation-
and one pathetic looking monster-{reason enough alone to watch this}.
some really funny moments.
Corman, it appears, just love making bad{really bad} B horror films.
and thats why we love him.