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Creature from the Haunted Sea

USA 1961
produced by
Roger Corman for Filmgroup
directed by Roger Corman
starring Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones Moreland, Robert Towne (as Edward Wain), Beach Dickerson, Robert Bean, Esther Sandoval, Sonia Noemí González, Edmundo Rivera Álvarez, Terry Nevin, Elisio López, Tanner Hunt, Blanquita Romero, Armando Rowra
written by Charles B.Griffith, music by Fred Katz

Roger Corman's Puerto Rico-Trilogy

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Cuba 1961: To get the Cuban national treasure out of Cuba and away from Fidel Castro's regime, general Tostada (Edmundo Rivera Álvarez) hires American gangster and skipper Renzo Capetto (Antony Carbone), a man who definitely has seen too much Humphrey Bogart movies, and his crew - his moll Mary-Belle (Betsy Jones-Moreland), her brother Jack (Robert Bean), and Renzo's animal impersonating henchman Pete (Beach Dickerson). But being a gangster, Renzo naturally has different ideas of who the money should go to ... not to some silly Cuban counter-revolution but to his own pocket ... And then there's also Sparks Moran (Robert Towne), American agent XP 150 aboard Renzo's ship who is supposed to guard American interests , but generally makes a mess out of things and soon falls madly in love with Mary-Belle ... who of course can't stand him.

Renzo has soon made up a stupid plan to get rid of general Tostada and his gang of Cubans, to kill them one at a time, and make it all look as if it was done by a sea creature ... what of course nobody knows yet is that there is an actual monster around too, which does a bit of killing of its own.

Soon Renzo figures it's a good idea to wreck his boat and let the strongbox containing the Cuban treasure sink to the ocean's floor near some (thought to be) deserted island ... but of course he hasn't taken into acount that all the Cubans are frogmen - so he and his little gang soon have to play monster again ... but then both Jack and Pete fall for island beauties, and soon with their girls even conspire against Renzo ... but as if that wasn't bad enough, the (real) sea-creature kills Jack's girl Mango (Sonia Noemi González), and later, when he gpes diving, Jack as well ... which pretty much breaks the whole gang up, and it was about time too, because now the creature attacks Renzo's new boat and kills everyone in sight, Cuban as well as American ...

 

Roger Corman, always one who knew how to make a dollar count, filmed this one back to back with Last Woman on Earth in Puerto Rico, using the same principal cast, too. (A third movie, Joel Rapp's Battle of Blood Island, was filmed back-to-back with Creature from the Haunted Sea and Last Woman on Earth as well, by the way.)

Creature from the Haunted Sea is however one of his least popular movies (even if Corman himself refers to it as one of his favourites), loathed by both those who celebrate Corman as an auteur (and can't fit this little flick neatly into their theory) and those who slammed him for his 1950's monster-movies (and couldn't come to terms with the fact that he was actually capable to consciously make a fool out of the whole genre). For my part, I thought the film was wickedly funny, an over-the-top nonsense comedy that was years ahead of its time, that always only pretended to adhere to certain genre rules only to throw them overboard in the least expected moments, and that not for one moment wold take itself seriusly. Granted, the film is not a genuine masterpiece, nor Roger Corman's best film or the best conmedy/genre parody ever, but it effortlessly delivers a bit over an hour of fun.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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