It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)

Directed by

Robert Gordon

Genre

action film, horror film, B movie, adventure film, disaster film, science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 19m

Rated

9

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 108 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A giant octopus mutated by nuclear testing terrorizes the West Coast. Military and scientific teams work to stop the creature before it destroys major cities.

tenseaction-packedmonstercreepyfast-pacedcrisissuspensefullow-budget

What happens

It Came from Beneath the Sea is a 1955 American science fiction monster horror 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 screenplay by George Worthing Yates was designed to showcase the stop motion animation special effects of Ray Harryhausen. A monstrous giant octopus rampages along the west coast of North America after becoming too radioactive from nuclear testing in the South Pacific for it to be able to hunt its natural prey in the Mindanao Deep. It Came from Beneath the Sea was released as the top half of a double feature with Creature with the Atom Brain. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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