The Sea Fiend (1935) User Reviews

Some good location work and a unique monster can't make up for a dreadful plot and terrible production

[dbborroughs · 3/10 · 5 May 2008]

1930's sleep inducer about a sailing ship taking a side trip to find a native son of its home port who may be still alive on island in the south seas. They find the man and also battle the title monster which is a giant manta ray. Pure soap opera and hokum that gets points for the early scenes of a harbor full of sailing ships, some location shots of things that have now passed into history and for a giant manta ray as a monster, but the soap opera is terrible and trying to watch it last night I did the same thing I did when I taped this off cable a decade and a half ago-I fast forwarded through a good chunk of it. The unique visuals are a reason to see this, however only on scan. Only for those wishing for a good nights sleep.

Avoid at all costs

[Sadako · 1/10 · 17 December 2002]

Grainy stock footage of animals getting killed and naked African tribesmen, linked by some of the most lackluster acting ever equals one of the most offensive films ever made. It's total crap, not even fun on a bad movie level. Avoid it.