"Their bodies may be gone, but how about their souls?" So starts off this epic Z-grade movie that where a movie starts off with so much philosophy, there seems nowhere to go but down. "I hope that man's death is not an omen of things to come", the same character says when a corpse without a head is pulled out of the Pacific abyss. "What could be down there other than earth, water, and a few land crabs?" Well, when that hungry huge crustacean is ten times your size, not something you want to run into! (Well, maybe if you have a huge pot of boiling water and some butter and lemon...) The creatures themselves look a lot more realistic than paper, plastic or puddy created critters, so there is that to give it some credit for, although they way they move is extremely silly looking. Unfortunately, they get very little screen time, so that is a major flaw in this Z-grade thriller. And the fact that the monsters can speak in the voices of those who were lost at sea makes this all the sillier. (One of them sounds like Maurice Chevalier....makes me hungry for French food!) I just wonder if Tim Burton got his idea for talking martians from this. ("Don't run, we are your friend!")
"Well, all I can say is, why wasn't I invited to the party?", a silly foreign supporting character asks, adding "Not funny, eh?" His one line of dialog could describe the entire script with everything pretty much forced to. "Once upon a time there was a mountain. There was a mountain outside yesterday. Now there's no mountain", the heroine (Pamela Duncan) notices. Well, I guess there ain't no mountain high enough to keep these crab monsters from getting through. Richard Garland, once married to scream queen Beverly Garland, is the hero here, and I'm surprised that his ex-wife wasn't offered the opportunity to star in this with him. Her presence might have raised this up a notch, because nobody dealt with outlandish creatures better than her. So if you're in the mood for Confucious like philosophizing in a truly tacky manner, then this deliciously bad science fiction piece of cheese is for you!
"Well, all I can say is, why wasn't I invited to the party?", a silly foreign supporting character asks, adding "Not funny, eh?" His one line of dialog could describe the entire script with everything pretty much forced to. "Once upon a time there was a mountain. There was a mountain outside yesterday. Now there's no mountain", the heroine (Pamela Duncan) notices. Well, I guess there ain't no mountain high enough to keep these crab monsters from getting through. Richard Garland, once married to scream queen Beverly Garland, is the hero here, and I'm surprised that his ex-wife wasn't offered the opportunity to star in this with him. Her presence might have raised this up a notch, because nobody dealt with outlandish creatures better than her. So if you're in the mood for Confucious like philosophizing in a truly tacky manner, then this deliciously bad science fiction piece of cheese is for you!