While it seems "Limits" aficionados can't seem to agree on this episode for one raised on alien invader movies of the sixties this fits right in. The Outer Limits was always a bit ham-stringed by budget, but it seems the most was made out of that limited budget here. The creature is more "right" than not and the story treads around some of mankind's worst attributes centering on the big ones: greed and fear.
The excellent actor Ralph Meekler plays an American millionaire whose hobby involves exploitation of South American third-world countries as well as a curious marine biology slant. He discovers a pre-historic sea creature and seeks to bring it back to the states for some serious study and, assuredly, fame and fortune. Two things stand in his way, however, a young blood-thirsty dictator and laws of nature. While his endeavor results in a calamity the viewer is led to believe that both the non-descript banana republic as well as Meekler's character find a kind of redemption as handed to him by nature taking it's course through the strange creatures release.
Tourist Attraction provides as much as can be asked on a limited budget and it is a welcome break from the extraterrestrial world regularly explored on the series. If you were raised on 60's alien sci-fi tales there's much to be mined here. This has just the right bit of cheese to entertain while exploring some dark fears.
The excellent actor Ralph Meekler plays an American millionaire whose hobby involves exploitation of South American third-world countries as well as a curious marine biology slant. He discovers a pre-historic sea creature and seeks to bring it back to the states for some serious study and, assuredly, fame and fortune. Two things stand in his way, however, a young blood-thirsty dictator and laws of nature. While his endeavor results in a calamity the viewer is led to believe that both the non-descript banana republic as well as Meekler's character find a kind of redemption as handed to him by nature taking it's course through the strange creatures release.
Tourist Attraction provides as much as can be asked on a limited budget and it is a welcome break from the extraterrestrial world regularly explored on the series. If you were raised on 60's alien sci-fi tales there's much to be mined here. This has just the right bit of cheese to entertain while exploring some dark fears.