Creature from the Haunted Sea

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"I saw the cookie monster! I did! I did!"  Too bad this film is in b&w otherwise blue would be the sea monsters perfect color (lol). Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961) is a comedy horror film where the monster gets the gold and the spy gets his girl. Everyone else is of no importance--killed by the "cookie monster." 

The film is a parody of a gangster-spy story with a sea monster thrown into the mix an obvious take off  of Creature from the Blue Lagoon. Roger Corman is the director, starring Robert Towne (under the pseudo name of Edward Wain), Anthony Carbone and Betsy Jones-Moreland.

The narrator is secret agent XK 150 who utters such tongue-in-cheek comedic lines as, "It was dusk, I could tell because the sun was going down."

After shooting two other films in Peurto Rico, Corman shot Creature from the Haunted Sea in 5 days. Locals appeared in the movie being paid $1 an hour. Robert Beam, the boom operator played the sea monster role. The music is the same score as in The Little Shop of Horrors

Although the movie was to be a comedy, (a laugh a minute), somewhere in the middle it became serious and the humor became obscure. Not exactly the best horror film I have watched thus far. However, it may appeal to others. So give it a try.