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The Unknown Terror (1957)

The Unknown Terror poster
Directed by
Charles Marquis Warren
Genre
horror film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 17m
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 16 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Explorers search for a missing man and find a cave full of deadly fungus and monster men.

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What happens

The Unknown Terror is a 1957 American horror science fiction film directed by Charles Marquis Warren and starring John Howard, Mala Powers, Paul Richards and May Wynn. It was produced by Robert Stabler. The narrative follows a group of explorers who, while searching for a missing man, come across the "Cave of the Dead", filled with parasitic fungi and inhabited by foamy, fungus-covered monster men. The film was released theatrically in the US on August 12, 1957 on a double bill with Back from the Dead. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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