What can you possibly say about Creature From The Haunted Sea? Whatever else it is I doubt that Roger Corman was trying to make either a comedy or a political statement. Personally I think he was trying to make the worst film of all time. But in trying so hard, he achieved a certain amount of campiness that save it from being a total bore. Bad films like anything else have to come natural, just like bad plays as we learned in The Producers.
The setting is 1959 in Cuba and the former Battista people are scurrying to get out of Cuba. But not before they seek to loot the treasury for a counterrevolution. General Edmundo Rivero Alvarez looks to gangster Antony Carbone for help because the Battista regime was pretty good for those wise-guys as we learned in The Godfather Part II.
But Carbone and his crew have ideas for the loot which is in the form of gold bullion and for the Cubans. But a certain sea monster has his own ideas about what to do with all of them as they land on a sparsely inhabited Caribbean island that the monster calls his turf.
No one will ever confuse this sea monster with a Ray Harryhausen creation. It looks like someone's bad idea for Halloween costume. The acting is on a level of my junior high school plays. It's a wonder any of these folks had careers after this, including Roger Corman.
But Corman did achieve a quirky campiness in making this film. I guarantee you will laugh yourself silly when you see how bad bad can be.
The setting is 1959 in Cuba and the former Battista people are scurrying to get out of Cuba. But not before they seek to loot the treasury for a counterrevolution. General Edmundo Rivero Alvarez looks to gangster Antony Carbone for help because the Battista regime was pretty good for those wise-guys as we learned in The Godfather Part II.
But Carbone and his crew have ideas for the loot which is in the form of gold bullion and for the Cubans. But a certain sea monster has his own ideas about what to do with all of them as they land on a sparsely inhabited Caribbean island that the monster calls his turf.
No one will ever confuse this sea monster with a Ray Harryhausen creation. It looks like someone's bad idea for Halloween costume. The acting is on a level of my junior high school plays. It's a wonder any of these folks had careers after this, including Roger Corman.
But Corman did achieve a quirky campiness in making this film. I guarantee you will laugh yourself silly when you see how bad bad can be.