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Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)

1959 · Feature film · 71 min · dir. Monte Hellman

Screaming young girls sucked into a labyrinth of horror by a blood-starved ghoul from Hell.

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Synopsis

Beast from Haunted Cave is a 1959 horror heist film directed by Monte Hellman and starring Michael Forest, Frank Wolff and Richard Sinatra. It was produced by Gene Corman, Roger Corman's brother. Filmed in South Dakota at the same time as Ski Troop Attack, it tells the story of bank robbers fleeing in the snow who run afoul of a giant spider-like monster in a cave that feeds on humans. The film was released on June 10, 1959 in a double feature with The Wasp Woman (1959).

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Details

Director
Monte Hellman
Writer
Charles B. Griffith
Composer
Alexander Laszlo
Cinematography
Andrew M. Costikyan
Studio
Gene Corman Productions
Released
1959-07-05
Running time
71 minutes

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Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★ · Arrrgh · Roady43 · 2011-02-15

Dr. Feel Rotten :) ARRRGHhhh. This movie is quite terrible, but the Monster is just awesome looking. Four stars for the monster :D.

★★★ · Well well well · Dr Feel Rotten · 2011-02-15

This ended abruptly now didn't it? Poof and arrrgghhhhh...kind of like the Monty Python arrghhh.. I know,..the cave of arrgghhh! The only thing missing was the killer bunny.This might have been a really good movie if they had left out the left over prop from the monster store room and I'm not really sure it came from there. I think it was just an old mop with cobwebs attached and the sequel was about the janitor who couldn't find a mop to mop floors any longer so he retires.. the end. What is it with Corman flicks anyway? they all seem to end really abruptly right as they’re running out of…

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