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Excellent, a Must See

Did you people see the same film I saw?

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

A same American town is terrorized by p.l.e.s.i.o.s.a.u.r. This is a great horror movie. Do not watch it alone. This movie has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. This is underrated. Do lesson to the negative. The see this movie it is a great movie. Richard Cardella is a great actor. This movie is awesome. It should be 10 not 3. It does not deserve 3. And Glen Roberts is a great actor. I can imagine how could not like this movie. It is a great monster movie. Mark Siegel is a great actor. This movie is an underrated classic. It is like Jaws only scarier. And that is not easy to do. See this movie it is great.

This could have been a much better movie than it turned out to be. First of all a plesiosaur, while not an herbivore, survived on fish, snails, and clams. So one awakened or hatched after millions of years would not have targeted humans. I suppose if it got hungry enough it might eat whatever it could find, but??? Again this is another movie that I ask why was it even made? I also wonder why the actors accepted the roles but I guess they figured that any screen presence was better than none. I don't know about that since a bad role can be a death knell for actors with out an established reputation. I realize that the lower grade actors must accept lesser roles but surely there must be a line. The graphics are poor, the acting is almost decent but still sub par and the overall quality is bad, bad, bad.

This film is about a small lakeside town that is terrorized by a giant dinosaur. Now you'd THINK it would be easy to locate a 75 feet-long behemoth (give or take 10 feet)--but no one seems to realize what's happening during most of the film! The police as well as two local idiots all investigate and inexplicably don't notice the dang thing! As a result, there's a minimum of action or suspense in the film--something you'd certainly expect from a film about a creature that snacks on people! The bottom line is that "The Crater Lake Monster" is a very bad film. It obviously had a very low budget and doesn't have a lot to recommend it. However, in addition to the usual very bad acting and horrible writing you'd expect in a schlock movie with a score of 2.4, it has something even more laughable--a silly 'monster'. While it's supposed to be a scary dinosaur, it looks more like a children's plastic toy in many scenes. The closeups aren't much better, as the thing still looks very plastic and seems about as scary as a Twinkie. If you like laughing at terrible films, this one is for you. Otherwise, steer clear!

We have a lake. We have an animated meteor crashing. We have a killer stop-motion dinosaur with flippers. Okay, so let's call this movie THE CRATER LAKE MONSTER. What else can we add? Hmm, two idiots called Arnie & Mitch to define the ultimate definition of "comic relief". We also got to have a sheriff who doesn't really do a damn thing in this film and whom nobody listens to. Aw crap, we're over halfway through the movie and we forgot to insert a bad guy! No worries, let's introduce some guy with a moustache, have him rob a store to indicate he's a bad guy, then have him pop up somewhere near the lake, have him chased through the woods and all this for the sole purpose of him ending up as dinosaur snack food. That should work.A complete, clumsy mess, this film. Its logic will twist your mind to force laughter out of you. The first film to feature Dave Allen as a "stop motion supervisor". After this one, he joined forces with Charles Band for several years until the the mid-nineties, when Band ran out of money to pay him, I guess. The dinosaur effects are charming and the whole film is pretty damn unintentionally funny. Unfortunately, that's about the only good thing that can be said for it.Good Badness? Yes. The mind-bending logic in the narrative should be enough reason for that. If not, Arnie & Mitch will do the trick. 3/10 and 8/10