Classic Creature Movies I - (Roger Corman): Creature From The Haunted Sea / Beast From Haunted Cave / The Wasp Woman

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3 Great Movies on 1 DVD. Star Power, Exciting Genre with Extras on each DVD.

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Fun,Fun & More Fun.......2006-08-25

Creature Movies .. are just great camp classics from, Roger Corman. I when to the show as a kid in the early 60's & for 25 cent, I got to see two movies. Wow! I was in heaven, at that moment & yes, I saw all three at the show & love them & even now, I enjoy them as great old B-Movies & Roger, knew how to make them, cheap & fun & maded a damm good living from it. "Creature From The Haunted Cave" is fun & silly but, fun. "Beast From Haunted Cave" . I love to watch & The Wasp Woman, is Cult Classic & best of all three. So if you got time & love old Horror B-Movies from the 60's, all I can say is watch & rock on. Great price, all three on one DVD, how can miss great fun ....

none of these are oscar winners,but they have a style and they are just so much fun.......2006-04-27

roger corman was and always will be the "king of the b movies", and as his book said,he made over 200 movies in hollywood and never lost money on any of them,lets see other directors make that claim!!! what makes these movies,indeed,all of cormans movies so much fun is the fact that with little or no money he made movies that were fun to watch and fun to revisit time after time. you can sence that he was doing everything he could to make a movie that you would enjoy,and thats the charm of mr. corman,he wants you to have a good time,and if you think he didn't know that some of these movies were pure cheese then you don't get mr. corman or his movies,as most were made tounge in cheek anyway.
settle back and watch these great cheese movies and have a ball.

OK, Corman has been hailed as a genius, but................2005-10-25

These movies were simply awful. OK, The Wasp Woman wasn't all THAT bad, but Creature from the Haunted Sea was literally one of the five worst movies I have ever seen, and Beast from Haunted Cave was one of the ten worst. But all in all I did not feel cheated, since I only paid $5.98, which is less than $2/movie. So buy it if you must, but don't expect to "feel the magic", because it just ain't there. Better off to put your money toward the Ed Wood Box or a copy of Robot Monster.

Corman is A Genius.......2002-03-28

This DVD is terrific. I enjoyed all three movies, each with its own special flavor.
The Beast From THe Haunted Sea is terrifically spoofy. It pokes fun at all the spy genre and the mass hysteria during the Cold War. A bumbling undercover spy infiltrates a wacky group of smugglers with deserters from the Cuban Army thrown in for good measure. The effects are lousy, the dialogue is intentionally awful but funny and th eBeast look like the Cookie Monster with Seaweed.

THe BEast From Hacuted Cave is different, darker and not bad. It involves a criminal gang who steals some gold and tricks a heroic ski guide to take them to his cabin to hide out. During the robbery, a beast was awaken or freed by the explosion and follows the crooks and proceeds to capture them one by one. Only the heroic ski guide and the chief crook's moll excape.

Corman has a flair for the dramatic and a good sense of what kind of story he wanted to tell. Unfortunately, his skills and budgets often prevented him from achieving his goals. Corman epitomizes the adage
A man's grasp must exceed his reach
Else what's a heaven for?!

I will buy more of his works.

Corman Triple Feature.......2002-01-29

If you are a fan of Roger Corman or drive-in style campy horror, this is a great buy. All three films are scratchy, but they all deliver the needed laughs. Creature from the Haunted Sea is the most hilarious with its bug-eyed undersea monster. In his memoir, Corman says it was intentional that the Creature win in the end. Beast from Haunted Cave is not a Roger Corman film, but it's a good one from his brother Gene. Clearly making the most movie out of little money is a family tradition. The Wasp Woman is the most famous of these(surprisingly timely and relevant when one considers how often plastic surgery and radical diets make the news). You can't beat the price. I find it appropriate that you can get these movies without spending a fortune, since no one spent a fortune to make them!

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A web-slinging spaghetti man with tentacles??!!
Are two Cormans better than one? Perhaps
Beast from Haunted Cave
Too little, too late
Not much of a flick

Beast From Haunted Cave (B&W)
Starring: Michael Forest , Sheila Noonan , Frank Wolff , Richard Sinatra , and Wally Campo
Director: Monte Hellman
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ASIN: B00006SFIZ
Release Date: 2002-10-22

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A web-slinging spaghetti man with tentacles??!!.......2006-11-30

This 'beast' from the haunted cave must be seen to be believed. What a hoaky monster. But it works perfectly with the plot and actors.

A gang goes up to the Dakotas for a robbery. The plan is to blow up a mine, then when attention is diverted, steal some gold bricks from the suppository. Only thing is, they plan to escape on skis with only a tourist instructor to guide them.

Well everything would have been fine, but the demolition man took a bar girl to the cave with him. She gets attacked and now the monster has singled out the gang to go after.

The Beast has long tentacles that he likes to grab people with and then he puts them in webs so he can devour them later. The monster himself is a shaggy looking ghost type man that screams like a chicken with its liver being ripped out.

Overall a pretty good flick to make out to on a rainy Saturday afternoon.

Are two Cormans better than one? Perhaps.......2006-01-01

No discussion of the silliest-looking monsters in film history would be complete without mention of Beast from Haunted Cave (which was reportedly nicknamed Humphrass). It's some kind of diaphanous, tentacled, spider-like thing that likes to wrap his victims up for later blood-sucking. Its costume looks to consist predominantly of saran wrap. There's nothing the least bit scary about it - and the same goes for the movie, which plods along for some 72 minutes.

You've got these three crooks with an elaborate robbery plan near a ski resort. After making plans for a squeaky clean ski instructor to take them on a cross-country trip to his remote cabin, they set up an explosion in the local mine and then rob the bank while nobody's looking. Their haul? Six measly gold bars. Six. That's it. Just six. There's oodles of gold right there for the taking, but they figure they can only haul two bars apiece on their backs. Things go according to plan - except the one guy took a girl with him to the mine and managed to get her killed by some strange monster. Speaking of girls, the gruff leader's having woman problems of his own; his annoying girl is tired of the robbery business and wants to make nice with the ski instructor. Needless to say, I was pulling for the monster to show up and clean house at some point, as he's actually the least annoying character to be found here.

You might suspect this was the work of Roger Corman - and you'd be right - sort of. Beast from Haunted Cave was produced by Roger Corman and Gene Corman - yes, I know it's frightening, but Roger wasn't the only filmmaker in the Corman family. Monte Hellman directed, and Alexander Laszlo supplied the music. I think it's an average low-budget monster flick at best, but it's certainly better than many a Corman B-movie.

Beast from Haunted Cave.......2005-10-17

A real oldie but a goodie, Monsters, screams you name it this has it.

Too little, too late.......2005-07-31

While fairly well acted for this type of flick, the pacing is awful for viewers who need regular doses of monster scenes throughout. In this case it's too little monster during the first three quarters and way too much monster at the end. The characters move around from place to place
talking endlessly about their lives while we barely even get a glimpse of the Beast. But during the last ten minutes we witness several attack scenes in a row - which left me wondering why we couldn't get more of these scenes peppered throughout instead of just saved until the end. Cool looking monster, but overall tedious viewing.

Not much of a flick.......2004-11-25

This film was a real dissapointment for me. I bought it in a dual pack with another low budget horror 60's film and was just left with nothing. I wasn't really sure exactly what kind of movie this was...an independent film made by some students? Is it a crime/thriller film? Is it a horror movie? Horrible acting, pathetic script, uninventive special effects, and a monster that's in the movie for only about 10 minutes. I appreciate low budget horror films (chainsaw massacre, night of the living dead, the season of the witch), but this one just doesn't cut it for me.

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A web-slinging spaghetti man with tentacles??!!
Are two Cormans better than one? Perhaps
Beast from Haunted Cave
Too little, too late
Not much of a flick

Beast From Haunted Cave
Starring: Michael Forest , Sheila Noonan , Frank Wolff , Richard Sinatra , and Wally Campo
Director: Monte Hellman
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ASIN: B00004REB9
Release Date: 2002-03-26

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A web-slinging spaghetti man with tentacles??!!.......2006-11-30

Are two Cormans better than one? Perhaps.......2006-01-01

Beast from Haunted Cave.......2005-10-17

A real oldie but a goodie, Monsters, screams you name it this has it.

Too little, too late.......2005-07-31

Not much of a flick.......2004-11-25

Beast From Haunted Cave/The Brain That Wouldn't Die

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A Corman produced quickie and the great "Jan in the Pan"
Entertaining Movies and the Horrors They Endure
Amazing Film, But...
Bad movie vs. good movie
Beautiful!

Beast From Haunted Cave/The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Starring: Michael Forest , Sheila Noonan , Frank Wolff , Richard Sinatra , and Wally Campo
Director: Monte Hellman , and Joseph Green (II)
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The Monster That Challenged the World/It! The Terror From Beyond Space

ASIN: B00005A07M
Release Date: 2001-03-20

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A Corman produced quickie and the great "Jan in the Pan".......2005-07-20

I rarely comment on the print quality of a film, so that when I tell you "Beast From Haunted Cave" is in sad shape, you need to know that it is pretty bad if I am actually inspired to complain. The audio track bothered me even more than the picture quality, because I was having a hard time understanding what the characters were saying for most of the film, but since I did not especially care it was not a great loss. This 1959 film is a quickie produced by Roger Corman and is the first credit for Monte Hellman ("Two-Lane Blacktop") as a director. Filmed during winter at a ski resort in South Dakota, the story is about a group of thieves whose big plan is to cover their robbery of gold with a bomb exploding in the mine, but end up tangling with a monster.

Frank Wolff is Alex, the head of the gang, with Sheila Carol as his hard drinking moll Gyspy, and Wally Campo as Byron and Richard Sinatra as Marty, the dimwitted henchmen. Michael Forest, who will go on to some small measure of fame as the god Apollo on the original "Star Trek," is Gil Jackson, the local ski instructor who is hired by the gang to take them on a cross-country ski trip to an isolated cabin where a ski plane will show up and fly the gang and the gold to Canada. But the plan gets off track when Marty takes Natalie (Linné Ahlstrand) the barmaid to a cave (in winter) for some hot action while he sets up the bomb (otherwise he could find a more comfortable place for the desired hot action). Marty discovers a strange egg and then Natalie is attacked and killed by a strange beast. Is it an insect? Is it an octopus on dry land? What IS that thing? Driven from its cave by the explosion, the Beast (now "Formerly from Haunted Cave") trails the gang on their trek and starts picking them off.

You will have no problem figuring out which two people will be left alive at the end of this one, although you might be surprised when suddenly the movie is over. The acting is not bad for this kind of film, and if they did a better job of blending together the disparate types of music in this one it probably would not seem as tacky. It would still be nice not to have a problem understanding what everybody is saying and maybe there are better prints of "Beast" out there that would justify giving it higher marks.

When it comes to gloriously bad movies you are not going to find anything besides Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Outer Space" that is on the same level with "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" (a.k.a. "The Head That Wouldn't Die", which is the better title because we are talking an entire head not just a brain). Dr. Bill Cortner (Jason call me Herb Evers) is unhappy with the outdated surgery practice by his father, Dr. Cortner (Bruce Brighton), who warns him about higher laws and other nonsense. Bill has a fiancé, Jan Compton (Virginia Leith), who keeps talking about how she cannot wait for them to get married. So when they are in a car accident he rescues Jan's head and takes it back to his private laboratory. There his assistant, Kurt (Leslie Daniels), who has a transplanted arm that has not exactly taken from one of Bill's earlier experiments and who also rails against the doctor's plan to find his fiancé (now the infamous "Jan in a Pan") the perfect body. Bill only has 48-50 hours (you have to love the specificity) to come up with a new body and heads for the nearest strip club. When that does not pan out (hehehehe) he starts stalking women on the street and finds his way to a Beautiful Body contest. But Bill will accept nothing less than the best for Jan and that ends up being Marilyn Hanold, Playboy Playmate of the Month for June 1959.

Meanwhile, Jan would rather be dead than just be a detached head; besides, she has some questions about the soundness of the whole procedure, which she discusses with Kurt. The rest of the time she carries on a one sided conversation with whatever is on the other side of the bolted door in the basement (Kurt will not let the cat out of the bag, but we know it is pretty bad and that it is another result of Bill's insane desire to play god). In the bloody climax of this film, the situation comes to a head...

Oh, you just cannot have too much fun at the expense of this film. Director Joseph Green and producer Rex Carlton came up with the story, and you have to admit that any movie that combines a talking disembodied head, a monster behind a locked door, and exotic dancers is a movie that is going to be made. The dialogue and the strong sexual subtext are what really stand out in this film. It is amazing that the actors could say some of these lines with straight faces. It is very easy to read this film being all about lust: Jan is ready to make Bill very happy and when he is left with just her head he insists on getting what is clearly an even better body so that they can consummate their destiny.

Also included on this double-featured DVD are trailers for both of the films plus Corman's "The Little Shop of Horrors," with a Popeye cartoon for intermission. Obviously I think everybody should experience "Jan in the Pan" at least once and while it is out there in lots of versions, as part of a double feature is not a bad way to go. We are not talking a stellar print, but it is much better than "Beast."

Entertaining Movies and the Horrors They Endure.......2003-02-05

While looking for Creature From Haunted Cave, a Corman movie listed in the annals of my movie-watching past as something akin to a giant insect feature, I happened upon this double set of it and The Brain That Wouldn't Die, an absolute classic. Now, both of these movies are something worth watching, The Brain that Wouldn't Die a bit more than the almost monster-devoid Beast From, and both rank right up there in the cinema hall of fame that sprouted from the B-movie halls of shame. Still, since both movies have been covered in depth here and on there separate movie pages, I'll focus my attention on the DVD at hand (Killer Creature Combo) and the utter lack of quality it has so you'll perhaps go and buy a better version of both.

Its truly a shame to see these movies cast in the green haze of Killer Creature films as it eats away at the black and white and makes certain scenes wretched and vacant. The darker aspects of the screen sometimes disappear altogether and sometimes the brighter scenes seem to be overcast, ruining the effects of many a movie that would have otherwise been a lot better and killing the moods when monsters decide to drop in and wreak havoc. Added to this is the sound quality of the most abysmal variety, where voices fade in and out and sometimes become so low that one can't hear them, and the fact that the menu to this DVD is an utter annoyance.

If you decide to buy these films, which are both worth a watch, you should definitely spend a little more and go for a transfer that has been remastered. Otherwise, you'll be disappointed when scenes disappear along with your patience!

Amazing Film, But..........2003-01-25

"The Brain That Wouldn't Die" is a masterpiece of the kind of filmmaking that's so bad that it's great, but there are many incomplete prints of this film which cut out the best scenes, including one of a pinhead tearing the arm off the mad doctor's assistant.

Since I have no idea whether or not the Mystery Science Theatre version of the film, for example, is complete, but knew that Madacy had a rather complete copy of the film with a bonus feature tagged onto it, I decided to give this cheap version a try despite the adage that you get what you pay for.

When Madacy does things right, they put out great deals. The thing with Madacy however is that they do not go to the expense of remastering films or tracking down the best film elements. Sometimes they have great prints, and it is unrealistic to expect perfect prints of any of these old turkeys which nobody made any effort to preserve in the first place. Even some of the ones which are slightly degraded have a fun midnight movie feeling to them with their scratches, etc. And for an apparently complete cut of "The Brain..." I was even willing to lower my standards. However, the picture quality of this print of "The Brain..." is particularly terrible. The print is all washed out and there is very little black and white contrast or detail. Watching this version, I believe I have a good idea of what it is like having a cataract.

Well, I was willing to take a gamble because the disc is cheap and contains a second movie, and usually at least one film on Madacy's double features is worthwhile. But "Beast From Haunted Cave" is merely boring. There are only approx. 5 minutes of the film that are interesting when the aforementioned beast, a character apparently added to the film as almost an afterthought, is on the screen, but this isn't enough to make the film worthwhile.

I still enjoy owning what seems to be a complete cut of "The Brain That Wouldn't Die", but I would recommend looking into the running time of other releases as it is worth some extra cost to get a better complete print (the complete cut is usually listed as running approx. 92 minutes), especially since the extra feature of "The Beast From Haunted Cave" provides no incentive to buy this version.

Bad movie vs. good movie.......2001-10-11

The Beast from the Haunted Cave is a terrible movie. Besides the film being all washed out, the plot is long and drawn out. I could hardly stay awake for this snoozer. The beast is seen for a total of about maybe 10 seconds the entire film, and is genuinely scary looking; but not good enough to redeem the movie.

The Brain that Wouldn't Die, on the other hand is a perfect B-movie horror flick. It's just so bad, it's good. You've got to see this one! A mad scientist-type loses his main-squeeze in a firey auto accident, but manages to salvage her head from the wreckage! He keeps the head alive, while scouting out the babes for a suitable body to attatch the head to! Hilarious! Although the sound quality is pretty poor, this is one classic that you CAN'T afford to miss.

Skip the Beast, and buy this just for the Brain!

Beautiful!.......2001-09-14

Ah, the joys of found footage! It is truly a lost art form. Beast:
Anyone that can take footage from their ski vacation and turn it into a movie deserves an Oscar. Just goes to show how corrupt Hollywood is, I guess.

There is a certain charm in watching these people try to act as if they are in a ski resort by bumbling about in front of projected footage. But the kicker is watching them depict warm breath by, get this, stealing drags off of cigarettes and blowing the smoke out while they talk! Yep, a classic.

Brain:
Wow, stunning. The world has never seen special effects like this before, and probably never will again. If silly tubes and vials filled with percolating fluid and dry ice are your idea of a mad-scientists lab, you're in for a real treat. There are a "few" plot holes that you could probably drive a Mack truck through, but why would you watch this for deep meaning? Kick back, grab some popcorn, and prepare to laugh yourself silly.

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AMC Monsterfest: Creature From the Haunted Sea/Beast From Haunted Cave
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AMC Monsterfest: Chandu on the Magic Island/ Ghosts of Hanley House

ASIN: B000A7DVUY
Release Date: 2005-09-13

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CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA (1961, 63 MINS., B&W) Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne, Beach Dickerson A government agent learns that a Caribbean island is in revolt and a mobster is shipping off with fellow criminals and the treasury loot. The agent decides he must infiltrate the gang to try to steal the booty, but first he has to invent a deadly sea creature so that he can more easily attain the treasure. BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE (1959, 75 MINS., B&W) Michael Forest/Sheila Carol Beast from Haunted Cave is a chilling thriller about four gold thieves who unwittingly awaken a bloodthirsty spider-like creature in its cave. Little do they know that the beast has left its lair to quietly prey upon and stalk them from the eerie shadows as they flee for a hideout in the woods.

Cry of Fear: Nightmare Castle and Beast From the Haunted Cave

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Cry of Fear: Nightmare Castle and Beast From the Haunted Cave
Starring: Paul Muller
Manufacturer: PandC Treasures
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ASIN: B000BH5TBM

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Contains a double feature and a cartoon, Felix the Cat in Neptune Nonsense.

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A web-slinging spaghetti man with tentacles??!!
Are two Cormans better than one? Perhaps
Beast from Haunted Cave
Too little, too late
Not much of a flick

Beast from Haunted Cave
Starring: Michael Forest , Sheila Noonan , Frank Wolff , Richard Sinatra , and Wally Campo
Director: Monte Hellman
Manufacturer: Synapse Films
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ASIN: B00005JRMZ
Release Date: 2001-04-03

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A web-slinging spaghetti man with tentacles??!!.......2006-11-30

Are two Cormans better than one? Perhaps.......2006-01-01

Beast from Haunted Cave.......2005-10-17

A real oldie but a goodie, Monsters, screams you name it this has it.

Too little, too late.......2005-07-31

Not much of a flick.......2004-11-25

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Beast From Haunted Cave
Starring: Michael Forest , Sheila Carol , and Richard Sinatra
Director: Monte Hellman
Manufacturer: The Film Group
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