Creature From The Haunted Sea
Horror
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1h 14m
Directed by Roger Corman | 74 mins | 1961
Billed as a monster movie, Corman’s horror comedy actually begins as a spy caper, starring future Chinatown scribe Robert Towne as Agent XK150. Riffing on Castro’s then-recent revolution in Cuba, the bonkers story reels in a cutthroat mobster (Antony Carbone), gold smuggling, an expert animal-call mimic, and, yes, an extravagantly janky beast from the deep.
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