Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954) on Netflix
Artist Julie Blair is vacationing in a Mexican seaside village where locals speak of a creature in the cove that has killed people. Marine biologist Steve Dunning doubts the stories.
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Plot summary
Julie Blair, an American artist, draws the ocean on a beach in a Mexican seaside village, where a local boy tells her a creature in the cove killed his father. She meets Steve Dunning, a marine biologist researching in the area, and his colleague Dr. Baldwin. When a diver vanishes in the cove, Dunning takes a one-man submarine down and finds the man's diving suit empty, its faceplate torn open. Julie questions Joe, Pablo and Tula, who speak of huge tracks in the sand and a shapeless thing as large as a house, and the creature in those accounts is huge, with a single red eye. Sightings in the cove reach back to 1946. Dunning warns Julie against hunting the creature herself.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954)
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- Making Monster from the Ocean Floor hooked Roger Corman on filmmaking as a career and established his professional relationship with James Nicholson and Samuel Arkoff, the partnership that led to American International Pictures.
- Roger Corman said the film was shot for $12,000 in cash over six days, with $4,000 of it from Ordung and $3,500 from Corman's sale of the Highway Dragnet story to Allied Artists.
- Director Wyott Ordung later claimed he hocked his life insurance and sold his apartment to raise $15,000 to pay for the film.
- Corman spotted an article about a new electric-powered one-man submarine and got it into the film for free, in exchange for the publicity and an on-screen credit reading "Submarine built by Aerojet General".
- Monster from the Ocean Floor was the first film Roger Corman produced; he handed the directing to Wyott Ordung, who diverted part of his pay for the experience.
- The film was sold to Lippert Pictures for $110,000, and Gene Corman said Lippert renegotiated the deal after learning that Roger Corman had spent far less than $100,000 on it.
- Haze's part was his first appearance in a Roger Corman film, and he went on to become a regular in Corman's pictures.
