Monster from the Ocean Floor Movie Review

Roger Corman's first production was shot in six days for $12,000. The comely Anne Kimball stars as a tourist vacationing in a Mexican village that is being terrorized by an octopustype sea monster (actually, a puppet shot from behind a cloudy fishtank – but no matter, you don't get to see it until the end of the movie). Stuart Wade costars as a marine biologist who dismisses the monster talk as superstition, until he is forced to go mano-a-monster in his mini-sub. Director Wyott Ordung also appears in the film and later wrote the immortal Robot Monster. Making his film debut is Jonathan Haze, who was discovered pumping gas on Santa Monica Boulevard, and became a part of Corman's ensemble. His finest hour is, of course, The Little Shop of Horrors. AKA: It Stalked the Ocean Floor; Monster Maker.

1954 66m/C Wyott Ordung, Anne Kimball, Stuart Wade, Jonathan Haze, Dick Pinner, Jack Hayes; D: Wyott Ordung; W: William Danch; C: Floyd Crosby. VHS, Beta VMK