Devil Monster (1935)

Original title

The Sea Fiend

Directed by

Juan Duval

Genre

adventure film, South Seas

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 03m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of people on a South Seas island encounter a giant sea creature. The movie uses stock footage and partial nudity to create a cheap adventure story.

old-fashionedlow-budgetexoticdatedpatchworkmildly sensationalarchaic

What happens

Devil Monster (1936) is an American action-adventure horror film directed by S. Edwin Graham. The working title of the film was The Great Manta and it was shown in Great Britain as The Sea Fiend in 1938. Also, a Spanish-language version entitled El diablo del mar, directed by Juan Duval using some of the same actors and footage, was released in the United States in 1936 by Cinexport Films. An edited version of the film was released in 1946 as Devil Monster, a low-budget South Seas drama spiced up with stock footage inserts including half-dressed native girls who were also featured in the film's trailer. The Hays Code, which banned nudity in American films, apparently tolerated partial nudity in "ethnographic" scenes of "native" life. This version of the film is now in the public domain and is available online at Internet Archive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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