After a decade of discovering lost worlds, Doug McClure took on weird creatures in the present day in this New World cheapie. He’s a fisherman operating along a coastline where a mysterious creature is running amok.
Within the first ten minutes the creature has killed a kid and a pet dog, normally taboo victims. There’s some New World left leaning social comment – the real baddies are a nasty cannery; there are some decent Indians who want their old land back. It has a female director, but that doesn’t stop her from including one scene where a bikinied woman is dragged into the ocean to be killed, another where a naked woman is slashed and killed on a beach, and another where a monster rips the top off a bikinied woman exposing her breasts. To be fair apparently these were inserted by another director – but the plot presumably always involved monsters wanting to rape women. Ann Turkel (as a “I’ve been warning you for years” scientist) and Vic Morrow (unscrupulous businessman round out the support cast.
The basic concept is ripped off Creature of the Black Lagoon and there’s an Alien stomach bursting rip off at the end for good measure. A bit of gore and nudity, some alright chaos at the end, and a lot of stupidity.
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