Rifftrax, please riff "Terror Beneath the Sea"
It's as if a grade Z Japanese studio thought that the combination of "Mighty Jack", "The Horror of Party Beach", "The Green **", and "Creature from the Black Lagoon" all mixed together would make a great idea for a sci-fi flick. Add wooden actors, poor writing, absentee direction, slapdash makeup and "special" effects, along with off the rack creature costumes, and you have the riffalicious gem which is "Terror Beneath the Sea". Mad scientist (mostly angry, but who is still a little whacked) creates a utopia on the sea floor, while engineering his sea creature "cyborgs" from human participants into creatures by apparently microwaving them and replacing their lungs. These overgrown pollywogs, which serve as ** labor controlled sonicly by a three position rotary switch, kidnap our protagonists while out for a scuba dive, who also happen to be friends with Naval officers in a futuristic sub with headlights and smart torpedoes that make bank turns like "Mighty Jack". All this happening around undersea atomic waste dumps that probably gave Gerry Andersen his idea for creating "Space 1999", though spoiler alert; the explosions didn't knock the ocean out of Earth's orbit.
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tsarstepan commented
This one was reviewed on Fanboy Flick's YouTube channel. This one would definitely
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Troy
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There aren't words for how wonderfully goofy this movie is. I don't honestly know how MST3K missed it. It really is the "Mighty Jack" version of "Creature from the Black Lagoon."
It's gloriously overacted (it's from the same studio that brought us 'Invasion of the Neptune Men' and starring Space Chief himself, Sonny Chiba) especially the dubbing, and has the almost surreal supermarionation quality of a Thunderbirds episode, despite being live action. The dollar store Blofeld knock-off villain in wrap-around sunglasses never bothers to explain exactly how turning the entire world into "water cyborg" fish monsters is supposed to make the world a better place... it just will. Also his super fish-men army all use regular hand guns with silencers.One other important point, for a film that's entirely in the public domain, the print I've seen is absolutely gorgeous. Either it was extremely well preserved, or somebody cared enough to do a wonderful restoration job for the BluRay release.
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Christopher Tonstad
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Oh, and a young Sonny Chiba stars, but kicks relatively little *** in this mess.