Cinema of the Damned
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The Monster That Challenged the World
›NR1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 84m · Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
Varan the Unbelievable
›1962 · Horror, Science Fiction · 70m · Myron Healey, Tsuruko Kobayashi, Clifford Kawada
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.
Claw
›2021 · Horror, Science Fiction · 81m · Chynna Marie Walker, Richard Rennie, Mel Mede
Two friends forced to spend the night in a ghost town find themselves hunted by a prehistoric predator.
Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre
›2015 · TV Movie, Science Fiction, Action · 84m · Dominique Swain, Traci Lords, Christine Nguyen
When a fracking mishap accidentally rips apart the earth’s crust, the resulting hole opens up a gaping underground water way to a vast and mysterious ocean somewhere deep below. Instantly, giant prehistoric sharks begin wending their way upward toward a murky bog in the heart of the Arkansas Bayou. Unfortunately, for a group of female prisoners on a work detail in the swamp, the deadly sharks attack without warning – pinning a hapless group of intended victims in a small deserted cabin in the heart of the wetlands. Death may be the only means of escape!
Megalodon
›PG-132018 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 90m · Michael Madsen, Scott C. Roe, Ego Mikitas
A military vessel on the search for an unidentified submersible finds themselves face to face with a giant shark, forced to use only what they have on board to defend themselves from the monstrous beast.
