Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)

A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.

Director:

Roger Corman

Writer:

Charles B. Griffith (screenplay)

Stars:

Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Antony Carbone	...	Renzo Capetto
Betsy Jones-Moreland	...	Mary-Belle Monahan
Robert Towne	...	Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator (as Edward Wain)
Beach Dickerson	...	Pete Peterson Jr. (as Beech Dickerson)
Robert Bean	...	Happy Jack Monahan
Esther Sandoval	...	Rosina Perez
Sonia Noemí González	...	Mango Perez (as Sonia Noemi Gonzalez)
Edmundo Rivera Álvarez	...	Gen. Tostada (as Edmundo Rivera Alvarez)
Terry Nevin	...	Cuban
Elisio Lopez	...	Cuban
Tanner Hunt	...	Cuban
Blanquita Romero	...	Carmelita Rodriguez
Armando Rowra	...	Cuban

Storyline

American crook Renzo Capetto sees a chance to make a bundle when a Caribbean island has a revolution. He plans to help loyalists (and the national treasury) escape on his boat, then kill the men and blame their deaths on a mythical sea monster. Trouble ensues when the _real_ monster shows up!

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Plot Keywords:

monster | sea monster | boat | cuba | caribbean | 

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Taglines:

This Gangster's "Single Partner" Isn't Even Human!

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Genres:

Comedy | Horror

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

June 1961 (USA)

Also Known As:

Criaturas do Fundo do Mar

Filming Locations:

Puerto Rico

Company Credits

Production Co:

Roger Corman Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

63 min 75 min (TV)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Did You Know?

Trivia

Throughout the movie there are Spanish joke names such as Colonel Cabeza Grande (Big Head) and the reef is located on the Isla de Barracho (Island of the Drunk).

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Goofs

At approximately 55 minutes, the young woman "Mango" is discovered coming out of the jungle, and again 5 seconds later.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Sparks Moran: [narrating] I had to go the Santo Domingo bar and I had to find Agent XK-120, whom I'd never met.

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Connections

Featured in David Walliams' Awfully Good: Awfully Good Movies (2011)

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Soundtracks

"The Creature from the Haunted Sea"
Lyrics by Carole Eastman
Music by Fred Katz
Sung by Betsy Jones-Moreland with the Fred Katz Jazz Combo

User Reviews

Misfiring would be comic creature feature

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,