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
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 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)
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