ma-cortes
Thrilling film in low budget plenty of chills , screams and lots of silly amusement . I admire creative effort to keep budget down , but this time is too little . It deals with an American Air Force jet carrying a atomic bomb is forced to drop it in the Ocean. Then , there takes place a nuclear detonation in the Atlantic that re-animates a giant sea monster . The creature terrorizes the Spanish coastline , capable of causing death and destruction . 1985 , Galicia , Spain , a sea captain , along with a seaman (Jared Martin) aboard a boat called ¨Alcantara¨ and set out in fishing when the strange monster attacks , being sunk and the crew devoured alive . Later on , the captain , whose ship was sunk by the monster , is condemned , but he escapes and join forces with an American tourist (Taryn Power , Tyrone Power's daughter) whose best friend was eaten by the monster in Estoril , Portugal . The couple goes to Lisbon asking for help a respected as well as likable professor (this film was Ray Milland's last theatrical feature) and both of whom team up to stop the beast ."Hydra" is a humdrum adaptation based on monster movies from a story and screenplay by the same director , Amando De Ossorio . This is a middlingly entertaining European monster movie in the 50s style , though packs absurd situations and cheesy frames when takes place monster appearance , attacking swimmers, boats and lighthouses without mercy . ¨Sea serpent¨ is an atmospheric as well as eerie movie that contains bemusing scenes when appear the giant monster and take place his attacks in some ridiculously made scenes , including primitive special effects . The picture has numerous "older technique" FX such as transparency , miniatures , matte paintings, scale models , reverse-footage , trains and helicopter similarly to toys ; all of them were made by Amando De Ossorio and makeup artist Fernando Florido . It's a slight fun with professional make-up , naive special effects , functional art direction and passable set decoration by Jose Luis Galicia who designed several Paella Western . You will watch it and think it is either awful , hilarious, a masterpiece, or all three . It's a simple entertainment with embarrassing images , naive special effects , campy production design and evocative setting . Although critics do not appreciate much this picture ; however has a kind of loopy , Ed Wood quality that must be endured to be totally considered . The fable is mostly silly and laughable , though a few Naif effects and action are professionally made . Some illogical parts in the argument are more than compensated for the excitement provided by the monster appearance though some scenes are a little bit cheesy and ridiculous . While not a hit during its original run, the film has got a limited gossip , when reissued many years later considered to be one of the best worst monster films of cinema history ."Hydra: Monster of the Deep" was lousily directed by Amando De Ossorio . Amando was a slick craftsman who began in films as a writer and assistant director and continued his career by making short films and industrial documentaries . He was one of the main directors of the Spanish horror boom in the 70s, specially for his quartet of films about the living dead Templars which started with his first great success and immensely popular ¨Tombs of the Blind dead¨ which to be continued by a trilogy : ¨Return of evil dead¨ , ¨Ship of Zombies or Blind dead 2¨ and ¨Blind dead 3 or The night of the sea gulls¨ . Amando owns his own studio and created and/or designed many of the simple special effects sequences you see in any of his many imaginative undertakings . Amando who recently passed away was a good craftsman who realized a lot of amusing as well as entertaining films . He displayed a varied career and specialized on all kind of genres as Western in "Rebels in Canada" and "Grave of the Gunfighter" , Monster movie as ¨Serpent of sea¨ and , of course, Terror as ¨Malenka¨ , The possessed¨ and ¨night of witches¨ . Ossorio also studied painting and photography , moreover, he also made his living as a painter of creepy images of the Knights Templar in his later years.
Seb
When all four of the two engines fail on a jet there's big problems. The tombstone toothed pilot and his incomprehensible Jamaican co-pilot request advice from their air command, which has the threatening codename "grandmother". Grandmother orders them to drop their nuclear bomb into the sea creating a large explosion of stock footage. As any scientist will tell you this can only mean one thing - a giant monster on the rampage around the coast of Spain. This is all done in code so it sounds like "Grandmother here, calling baby, drop the bottle in the sea and return to auntie via brother-in-law". Apparently the Russians have cracked their code but I doubt anyone in the audience could. You get the jist of it though, big explosion and big funny looking monster biting the top off lighthouses and generally being a danger to shipping.A sea captain who is constantly being asked if he's drunk and some woman set out to prove it's real, which is tricky because it's clearly a big glove puppet. My favourite scene was the courtroom case involving a 25ft fishing boat where even the clerk of the court was an admiral.Funny from the first line onwards with masterful dubbing I give it 19/10 with a bonus point for every exploding rowboat taking it up to a respectable 30/10. The ending is especially good, take that Africa - one giant monster coming your way! Not our problem any more.
Vomitron_G
This film has me seriously doubting again whether Armando de Ossorio was a good filmmaker or not... His BLIND DEAD films are praised by many fans. This I can understand. But wanna-be Gothic vampire trite like MALENKA doesn't show any signs from a gifted filmmaker. And that also goes for SERPIENTE DE MAR. It features horrible acting, a dumb plot, stupid events, a lot of other things you can expect from a bad monster-movie and also veteran actor Ray Milland, who does his best to mumble his way through this film while not having much of a clue about what he's doing in it. Apparently Milland was already very ill while shooting SERPIENTE DE MAR (his last theatrical feature) and going out with a ridiculous stinker like this, makes it all the more sad. One last appearance alongside Peter Cushing in a made-for-TV film directed by Roy Ward Baker (also in 1984) doesn't change much about it.But the sock puppet/sea serpent is a hoot to behold. Watch it swirl up a lighthouse and crush it. See it destroy a harbour with miniature boats. Look at it demolish bridges and munch on charming miniature trains.Good Badness? Yes. 3/10 and 7/10
therealjohng
This is the worst movie I have ever seen. A movie that is about a stupid looking monster from the ocean that threatens a small town which has to be filled with the dumbest people on earth.
SPOILERS IF YOU EVEN CARE
They can't even kill the damn thing by the end of the movie. The movie ends and they're like, "Well, some day we'll have to kill it."Avoid at all costs.
