Overall entertaining giant octopus movie with effects by Ray Harryhausen. It is fairly typical for a 1950s monster movie, and while it is on the higher end of that particular field, it does still suffer from some of the same faults when viewed from a modern perspective. It can be more than a little slow, and takes its sweet time getting to the reveal of the thing that's on the poster.
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It Came from Beneath the Sea is a 1955 American science fiction monster film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Sam Katzman and Charles Schneer, directed by Robert Gordon, that stars Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, and Donald Curtis.
The script by George Worthing Yates was designed to showcase the stop motion animation special effects of Ray Harryhausen. In the film, a monstrous giant octopus rampages in the North American Pacific Coast when it is awakened by nuclear testing.
It Came from Beneath the Sea was released as the top half of a double feature with Creature with the Atom Brain.
If I had a nickel for every movie I watched today where a love triangle takes place at sea and the stubbornly independent woman is torn between the safe man she has more in common with and the man she both clashes with and works well with who makes her Feel Something, all while the main characters dealt with outside pressures, I'd have two nickels.
Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice in one day, right?
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‘Out of primordial depths to destroy the world!’
It Came from Beneath the Sea is a 1955 American science fiction film about a giant octopus attacking the Pacific coast of the USA. The octopus was disturbed and energised by radioactive weapon tests.
Directed by Robert Gordon from a screenplay written by George Worthing Yates and Harold Jacob Smith (as Hal Smith), based on a storyline by George…
Halloween Movie Night 17: It Came from Beneath the Sea | Directed by Robert Gordon (1955)
“For centuries the mind of man has learned comparatively little of the mysteries in the heavens above - - or in the seas below. Since the coming of the atomic age, man's knowledge has so increased that any upheaval of nature would not be beyond his belief.” — Opening title crawl. It’s a big octopus.