Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Cheap horror-comedy-satire that doesn't really succeed at in any category (except 'cheap'). Typical Roger Corman backstory: in Puerto Rico to shoot a couple of pictures, has a bit of extra time and a crew, so makes a third movie. The opening credit-cartoons pretty much set the tone for the silly movie, which includes one character who mostly makes animal noises, mostly. Also typical Corman: one cast member of this C-movie cheapie (Robert Towne) goes on to be one of the most touted scriptwriters in Hollywood. Roger Corman had an eye for talent and profit-potential like no other and, despite being one of the most ridiculous 'monster movies' movies of all time, I'm sure "Creature from the Haunted Sea" turned a profit… and, of course, is still being watched (albeit only by fans of BEM movies).

All you have to do is look at stills of this extremely cheaply made science fiction/horror comedy, and you can see the cheap ideas that went into making it. Yet, as bad as it is, it seems to have been the first of many silly looking sea monsters, this one so obvious that it looks like a giant Muppet. In fact something tells me, that when Jim Henson saw this movie he got the idea of creating Cookie Monster. The plot surrounding the film truly is lame. It has to do with a fake scheme to scare people away by pretending that a sea monster exist in the area, but unbeknownst to the stupid perpetrators of this idiotic plot, there really is a monster, and how he can come out of the water with his coat looking so dry, is one of the most outlandish ideas in these type of films. It's funny that the monster looks more cuddly than scary, even if he is bigger than his victims. The acting, if you can even call it that, is so bad, everybody speaking in mono syllabic terms and acting so childish. When the people on this boat actually land on an island with primitive huts that do look like something out of Gilligan's Island, complete with coconut trees, you know you are in the Land of the Lost. I know that Roger Corman wasn't going for art with these films, only to make a quick buck. There is not a bright idea in the entire film, with the entire cast of adults acting like buffoons throughout, imitating elephants, chickens and big monkeys. The island sequence even has a subplot ripped off from South Pacific that has to be seen to be believed. There is no way even if this was made to be serious that I could take it serious, that everything about it is so silly and juvenile, that I can't believe that any adults that went to see this film at a drive in without a make-out partner could make it throughout the entire film without going to the refreshment stand. One of the characters seems to be trying to emulate Jerry Lewis, and comes off extremely badly. Unfortunately the silly looking monster doesn't even appear all that much. But there are some good laughs at the expense of the film, and I am certainly glad that I wasn't stuck on this island with the bunch of idiots seemingly castaway here. I prefer to take my chances with Gilligan and the skipper.

The movie is a deliberately bad b-rated comedy crime-horror. It was made for giggles and not meant to be a great crime-drama (it simply spoofs crime-dramas).I had a couple of laughs with the film so the movie is not all that bad but it's not all that good either. For me it was missing something; I think it was missing a bit more comedy-horror because the comedy crime-drama seemed to dominate the film. Maybe it was just me expecting more of a comedy-horror since that is how this film's genre is labeled.Don't expect to see the creature/monster often either because you will not. That might be part of my disappointment with the film - not enough monster.There is an overall drabness to the film too - as if there was some other element missing to make the film stand out a bit more. It's not an overly dull film but it is a bit on the drab side.I felt the movie had the potential to be funnier than it really was. It's not a down right awful film but it is not a b-rated film that stands out in the crowd of "bad but good" b-rated horror flicks.I would say this is a good morning or afternoon film for those who would like to watch it for the first time. And, for me personally, the movie really is good for a one time watch just to say "I've seen the film".4.5/10

After the Cuban Revolution, the mobster Renzo Capetto (Antony Carbone) and his lover Mary-Belle Monahan (Betsy Jones-Moreland) transport a group of exiled Cubans led by General Tostada (Edmundo Rivera Alvarez) to the United States with a Cuban treasure to finance a counterrevolution against Castro. However, Renzo and his gang formed by Pete Peterson Jr. (Beech Dickerson), Happy Jack Monahan (Robert Bean) and Sparks Moran (Edward Wain), who is indeed the American Agent XK150, plan to steal the treasure from the Cuban people.They fabricate a sea monster to change the course to San Juan and kill Cuban soldiers. However they discover that the creature does exist and is attacking them all."Creature from the Haunted Sea" is an awfully lame and silly Z-movie by Roger Corman. The comedy and the horror never works and the acting, direction, narration, effects and make-up are really dreadful. My vote is two.Title (Brazil): "Criaturas do Fundo do Mar" {"Creatures from the Bottom of the Sea")