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It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955) [31 Days of American Horror Review]

Looking for more classic horror reviews from Jules? Check out our “31 Days of Hammer”, “31 Days of British Horror”, and “31 Days of American Horror”, to hear his thoughts on some of the best (and worst) that the genre has to offer. Director: Robert Gordon Starring:  Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis After the game-changing success of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, Columbia Pictures clearly fancied getting a bit of Harryhausen giant monster action themselves and who can blame them? Unfortunately for them, instead of a magnificent dinosaur stomping about the place, they got a giant octopus, one that they could only afford to animate six arms of. Worse, the paucity of funds available meant a very noticeable amount of stock footage being clumsily inserted throughout the film. Add in the dry, static environments of submarines and laboratories and you end up with a movie that feels more like a documentary or public information film at times. Despite all this, It Came From Beneath The Sea is as massively enjoyable as it’s massive “Sixtopus” is…well, massive. While on manoeuvres in the Pacific Ocean, Cmdr. Pete Mathews’ (Kenneth Tobey) nuclear submarine detects a huge sonar signal before being attacked and [...]



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