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Director:
Irvin Berwick
Writer:
H. Haile Chace (screenplay)
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Genre:
Horror | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
MAN-MONSTER FROM THE SLIMY DEATHS! more
Plot:
The monster, which looks like a nastier version of "The Creature from the Black Lagoon," invades a sleepy lighthouse town... more | add synopsis
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scary more

Cast

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Les Tremayne ... Dr. Sam Jorgenson
Forrest Lewis ... Constable Matson
John Harmon ... Sturges, the Lighthouse Keeper
Frank Arvidson ... Kochek, the Storekeeper

Jeanne Carmen ... Lucy
Don Sullivan ... Fred
Pete Dunn ... Eddie / The Monster
Joseph La Cava ... Mike
Wayne Berwick ... Little Jimmy
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Additional Details

Runtime:
71 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:Unrated | UK:X
Filming Locations:
Cayucos, California, USA more

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Trivia:
The monster suit looks like the one from Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), mainly because the creator of The Creature, Jack Kevan, produced and supervised the make-up effects on the film. Much is credited to Universal-International's standard make-up credit of Bud Westmore, but he had little to do (other than posing for publicity photos) with the great monsters from that studio in the '50's. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When the monster is trying to break through the steel door at the top of the lighthouse, it is a single door. But when he breaks through, it is a double door. more
Quotes:
Fred: There's been another murder.
Sturges, the Lighthouse Keeper: Who?
Fred: Kochek. We found his body this afternoon.
Sturges, the Lighthouse Keeper: He talked too much.
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Movie Connections:
Edited into 42nd Street Forever, Volume 2: The Deuce (2006) (V) more

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13 out of 14 people found the following comment useful:-
scary, 25 March 2003
Author: james bryan pitts (jamesbryanpitts@aol.com) from el segundo, ca.

I insisted on seeing this movie when it came out in the 1950's, I was 7 years old. I got to the theatre late and the movie had already started. As I opened the doors to enter the screening room a strange feeling came over me, could it have been that the room was pitch black and 500 people were screaming at the top of their lungs? Somehow I found my way to a seat trying not to look at the screen. In a few minutes the monster comes waltzing out of some industrial size refridgerator carrying some guys head in his hand.....that was all it took....as the blood rushed to my head I did the 50 yard dash to the doors in world record time and never looked back. Decades later (1990's) I had the chance to watch the movie again on cable. This time my girlfriend was with me so I was able to get through it........

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