Should you see it? Maybe on a slow day.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds."
Saturday, April 5, 2014
The Crater Lake Monster (1977)
How bad is it? It's not terrible.
Should you see it? Maybe on a slow day.
Crater Lake is one of the most beautiful places on Earth, though you would never know it from this film. The lake is so clean that one can see hundreds of feet down, so no one could get surprised by a monster, if one existed there. This is a standard dinosaur-on-the-loose film. The special effects are dodgy (in the one close-up of an attack, it drops to terrible obvious papier mache), but the film is okay for what it is. At the end, they fight the creature with a plow, which seems like a new idea if you haven't seen, say "Dinosaurus!" or any other similar film. At the end, when the monster's killed, there's actually a scene of excellent acting, as a man is devastated at the death of his friend in the process - in most of these films, it would be reaction shots of people rejoicing, but here the loss seems real.
Should you see it? Maybe on a slow day.
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