Creature from the Haunted Sea was a bonus movie for Roger Corman. To take advantage of some tax breaks he'd taken a few folks down to make two movies -- Attack on Blood Island and Last Woman on Earth -- and after those films had wrapped they still had a little time and some film, so he cajoled the cast from Last Woman on Earth to hang out and make another quickie, this time a vintage monster flick. Ripping off the plot of Beast from Haunted Cave and cobbling together one of cinema's most hilarious and inept monsters they made a movie.
They were smart enough to keep the outing light and play it for laughs. Creature from the Haunted Sea is a true farce with inept heroes, damsels who don't desire saving, and baddies who make animal noises and kill their enemies with toilet plungers. The "action" rumbles along with a helter-skelter energy until the cast stumble across a real "monster". But it's certain that the monsters in this movie are all mostly humans.
This movie has been included on most public domain monster movies and like much of the Roger Corman material from the Filmgroup era is often overlooked because of its cheapness and relative easy access. It's a dopey monster movie that is just looking to have some fun and consequently allows the audience to have fun too.
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