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Beast from Haunted Cave

  • 19591959
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 12m
IMDb RATING
4.3/10
2K
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Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
A group of gold thieves pull of a heist and flee into the snowy wilderness, only to be pursued by a horrible, spider-like monster.
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  • Crime
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A group of gold thieves pull of a heist and flee into the snowy wilderness, only to be pursued by a horrible, spider-like monster.A group of gold thieves pull of a heist and flee into the snowy wilderness, only to be pursued by a horrible, spider-like monster.A group of gold thieves pull of a heist and flee into the snowy wilderness, only to be pursued by a horrible, spider-like monster.
IMDb RATING
4.3/10
2K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Monte Hellman
  • Writer
    • Charles B. Griffith(original story)
  • Stars
    • Michael Forest
    • Sheila Noonan
    • Frank Wolff
Top credits
  • Director
    • Monte Hellman
  • Writer
    • Charles B. Griffith(original story)
  • Stars
    • Michael Forest
    • Sheila Noonan
    • Frank Wolff
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    • 78User reviews
    • 40Critic reviews
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    Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
    Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
    Sheila Noonan and Michael Forest in Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
    Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
    Wally Campo and Kay Jennings in Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
    Linné Ahlstrand in Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
    Chris Robinson in Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
    Frank Wolff in Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
    Michael Forest in Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
    Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
    Frank Wolff in Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
    Wally Campo in Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)

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    Michael Forest
    Michael Forest
    • Gil Jackson
    Sheila Noonan
    • Gypsy Boulet
    • (as Sheila Carol)
    Frank Wolff
    Frank Wolff
    • Alexander Ward
    Wally Campo
    Wally Campo
    • Byron Smith
    Richard Sinatra
    • Marty Jones
    Linné Ahlstrand
    • Natalie, the bar-girl
    Chris Robinson
    Chris Robinson
    • The Beast
    • (as Christopher Robinson)
    • …
    Kay Jennings
    • Small Dove
    Jaclyn Hellman
    • Jill Jackson
    • (uncredited)
    Kinta Zertuche
    • Woman Sitting at Table
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Monte Hellman
    • Writer
      • Charles B. Griffith(original story) (screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Roger Corman and Gene Corman partly chose their filming location in the Black Hills because they were encouraged to come by the Chamber of Commerce in South Dakota. The Chamber of Commerce offered financial incentives in order to ensure that this, and future Corman films, would be shot in their state.
    • Goofs
      At 2 min Alexander skis down a short mountain strip with plenty of snow. Minutes later when Marty and Byron do the same thing there is a huge patch of ground with no snow.
    • Quotes

      Marty Jones: I saw pieces of an egg in the mine, where it got Natalie. Now that could have been buried there for millions of years until the men working on the mine found it.

      Alexander Ward: I don't care what it is. I don't care if it chews up the whole state. I care if it came from Mars or happened by spontaneous combustion. We're going to Canada with a load of gold, so forget it!

    • Connections
      Edited into Pale Moonlight Theater: Beast from Haunted Cave (2014)

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    Top review
    3/10
    Beast of Boredom!
    On paper, this simply couldn't go wrong! The long-feature debut of brilliant director/producer Monte Hellman ("Two-Lane Backtop", "Cockfighter"), owing its existence to legendary producer Roger Corman, and fully belonging in one of my favorite cinematic hypes of all time: cheap 50's monstrous B-movies! Evidently, a whole lot went wrong… From sheer boring dialogs over irrelevant sub plots and onwards to a largely absent and – above all – uninspired titular monster design. The "beast" looks like a vague shape covered in cobwebs and that's just plain lame; even according to zero-budget 50's horror standards. The basic plot definitely holds potential, and for the first 20 minutes or so, I felt convinced I was watching a undiscovered gem of the genre. But the, incomprehensibly, the plot somehow stopped evolving and became an unendurably boring ordeal to struggle through. A quartet of gangsters carefully planned a risky gold heist near a skiing resort. Whilst the drunken love interest already embarks on a skiing trip with the instructor, the other three break into a bank before joining the others. During their perfect alibi, however, the assembly encounters (eventually) a hairy and aggressive monster living in the mountain caves. "Beast from Haunted Cave" is a nearly insufferably dull film, and that's all the more painful to acknowledge due to the promising intro. The heist concept is ingenious, the characters are intriguing (the girl is a manic depressive drunk and one of the robbers is a womanizer) and the ski-resort setting is quite effective (cashing in on the contemporary Abominable Snowman paranoia). The rudimentary plot ingredients for a charming 50's monster-mayhem flick are well present, but I'm extremely reluctant to announce this movie is an utter failure. Disappointing to the nth degree
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    • Coventry
    • Jun 2, 2009

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    • Release date
      • October 30, 1959 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Creature from the Cave
    • Filming locations
      • Deadwood, South Dakota, USA
    • Production company
      • Gene Corman Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 12 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1(original ratio)
      • 1.85 : 1

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