Beast from Haunted Cave (1959) on Netflix
Approved19591h 6mCrimeHorrorThriller
Marty Jones plants a bomb in a Deadwood mine as cover for his gang's bank robbery, and finds a beast there. Guide Gil Jackson then leads the robbers toward a remote cabin.
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Plot summary
In Deadwood, South Dakota, Alexander Ward assembles a gang to rob a bank vault. He sends Marty Jones into a nearby gold mine to set a time bomb, which will go off the following morning as a diversion. Marty comes upon a huge, hairy beast there. The explosion covers the robbery, and the thieves hire Gil Jackson, a local guide, to lead them to a remote cabin where a plane will collect them. Gil only grows uneasy when he hears a radio report of the theft and spots handguns among his clients. A snowstorm delays the plane. Marty, unable to forget what he saw in the mine, keeps feeling that something is watching him.
Cast
- Kinta Zertucheas Woman Sitting at Table (Uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
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- On the first day of shooting Beast from Haunted Cave the temperature was 10 degrees below zero and the equipment was frozen solid, so director Monte Hellman had no shots by noon; executive producer Roger Corman phoned threatening to fly out and take over the picture.
- To amortize costs, Roger Corman shot Beast from Haunted Cave and Ski Troop Attack at the same South Dakota locations, using the same screenwriter and lead actors. The two films took five weeks in all, with one day off between them, and Beast was shot first.
- Actor Chris Robinson, later a star of General Hospital, designed and portrayed the monster, doing the work for free in exchange for on-screen special-effects credit and paying for the materials himself.
- Special effects man Paul Blaisdell said Roger Corman pleaded with him to design the monster, but the budget was so minuscule that Corman did not offer enough to cover the materials; Blaisdell turned him down and never worked for Corman again.
- The cave scenes were shot in an abandoned mine in Deadwood, and when the actors fired guns the reverberating sound sometimes caused pieces of the ceiling to break off, making cast and crew members nervous while working there.
- Chris Robinson based the beast's design on a wingless hangingfly, building its skeleton from aluminum stripping on a plywood base, covering it with chicken wire, sheets and muslin, then soaking the frame in vinyl paint to waterproof it for the snow.
- Director Monte Hellman claimed his 2% share of the profits from Beast from Haunted Cave amounted to just $400 over the next five years.
