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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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McGlusky the Sea Rover (1935)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.