Creepy Creature Double Feature Volume 1 is another VCI release from the Kit Parker film library. He's got a good number of films in that collection but these aren't some of the better ones. They're both passable as entertainment and there's two of them on one disc.
Monster From The Ocean Floor 1954 The first film produced by Roger Corman, screenplay by Bill Danch, directed by Wyott Ordung. Bill would go on to write a huge number of TV episodes and animated shorts. He wrote 20 episodes of the 1967 Spider-Man series and 58 episodes of the animated Sabrina The Teenage Witch series. Wyott only directed one other film, the 1956 Chuck Conners film Walk The Dark Street. He's responsible for penning that 50s SF classic Robot Monster. He didn't have a long career.
Lucky for us Monster From The Ocean Floor is a bit better than Robot Monster. Anne Kimbell plays a young woman vacationing in a tiny Mexican sea side village. While swimming she's nearly run down by marine biologist Stuart Wade and his mini submarine. An abalone diver disappears and Anne sees something huge in the sea. Stuart doesn't quite believe her, suspecting a large octopus or something like that. Little do the two of them know that the local legend of a sea monster is real. The local witch woman plots to sacrifice Anne to the thing they believe to be a god, she enlists the help of local fisherman Pablo, played by Wyott Ordung, to lure Anne to the monster. Eventually things are sorted out and there's a happy ending. Well, except for the few people who got eaten.
It's a fairly decent movie, well enough made for the little cash spent on it, sadly it fails on the monster. Film historian Tom Weaver interviews Roger Corman about the film and talks about the film in audio extras. That was as entertaining as the film in some ways. Glad to have a copy and be able to watch it again someday.
Serpent Island 1954 Produced by Bert I Gordon, written and directed by Tom Gries. Rosalind Hayes hires men to help her find some gold that her great-grandfather had hidden in Haiti. Sonny Tufts plays a marine engineer who's been living as a beach bum. He's the one who figures out that the gold isn't on Haiti but another island in the area. They find the gold but it turns out to be the property of a voodoo cult and guarded by a big ass boa constrictor.
The script is weak, the acting average or below, the film watchable but it's not as entertaining as MFTOF. I'd still watch it again but it's going to be a while before that happens.
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