ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

Producer Gene Corman made this one with a little help from brother Roger (as executive producer).

It's about a "snowbeast" (a large but somewhat indistinct creature living in a cave) which threatens a group of people (including some on-the-run criminals) at a ski lodge, encasing its living victims in cocoons within its lair, consuming them gradually.





Low budget, low quality, low enjoyment. The running time is only sixty-five minutes. Starring Wally Campo, Sheila Carol, Michael Forrest, and Frank Wolff. Directed by Monte Hellman.





Originally co-billed with The Wasp Woman.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Rick]

This is one I did NOT see at my beloved LeRose Theater. And it's one of the great regrets of my Monster Kid life.

While I saw a lot of movies at the LeRose, I also missed quite a few for one reason or another. And they nagged at me for years and years. I missed INVISIBLE INVADERS, HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE, SPACEMASTER X7, too many more.

But the worst was an all-Saturday-afternoon triple-feature, the twins of BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE and THE WASP WOMAN plus the extraordinary Bonus Feature -- KING KONG. I don't remember exactly why I didn't go. I do remember my friend Steve stopping me in the hallway at Ingramville Elementary School and pleading with me not to miss this trio. He was right of course. But I didn't go, and I've regretted in for 56 years now.

Of course, I eventually saw all three movies. KING KONG, well, masterpiece, 'nuff said. THE WASP WOMAN silly as all get-out...but I think ten year old me would have enjoyed it a great deal on a Saturday afternoon in the dark but raucous LeRose. BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE...hmmm....I'm sure I would have survived it, but I don't imagine that, even at ten years of age, I would have gotten much joy from that thing.

So BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE is a lousy movie, but when I think of it, my first thought is not of its quality, but of the simple fact of what I missed out on all those years ago.
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Man need not kneel before the angels,
Nor lie in death forever,
But for the weakness of his feeble will.

[ralfy]

1080p resolution, released only a few hours ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeXO-XJhVp4