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(thunder crashes) One day the devil came to him For he was a minor demon Asked him to torture some humans With his two friends in tow Mittens and El Sapo The Baron Mondo Von Doren On Nightmare Theatre I tell you, Mittens, it was a grand idea.

I wish I could say it was mine, but.

But it wasn't.

See, a fast food company made this absolutely delicious soft serve ice cream.

It was amazing.

Every bit was like, what?

Heaven must taste like you'd shove your own mother out of the way just to get one sweet taste.

Just one drop, Just one bump.

They made it available nationwide.

They got everyone hopelessly hooked.

We became a nation of soft serve, ice cream addicts and just when they had the hook set and they had us all strung out on their product, they set their true evil plan in motion.

What?

No.

No, They didn't start raising the prices.

It was much, much worse.

They started telling everyone the machines were broken down each and every time you went into the restaurant or you pulled up to the drive thru speaker and said, Hey, man, I need some of that sweet, sweet, soft serve baby.

Just give me enough to get me straight.

The people in the restaurant said the same thing.

The ice cream machine is broken.

Try again tomorrow.

Tomorrow, Tomorrow.

And I swear you could hear them laughing at you.

Every machine in the country broke down the same time.

Almost like it was coordinated.

Which it was.

It was a big conspiracy.

See, local, state, and even federal government officials tried to intervene.

The president himself went on TV and begged the country to remain calm until all the machines were fixed, but it was to no avail.

The machines were still broken and we were still addicted.

We are still chasing that smooth and creamy vanilla flavored dragon we're on.

Later, I'll tell you about the time they replaced those wonderful fried pies everyone loves with baked flavorless chunks of sadness.

It was awful.

Just awful.

Well, hello, folks, and welcome to the Nightmare Theatre.

I'm your host, the Baron Mondo Von Dorn.

And here with me, as always, is my good friend Mittens, the werewolf.

And we were just discussing great travesties and injustices as we wait for the greatest travesty of all.

El Sapo de Tempesto to show up with tonight's movie.

I wonder where it could be.

He.

He knows where time is supposed to be.

Oh my god.

Oh.

Oh, good morning.

Let's just.

Just give you a minute and I'll get breakfast and just let me get some.

Good Lord.

Let me get some coffee or something.

Hmm.

Well, first I'll go fetch the morning paper for your mittens.

It's the middle of the night.

What do you mean?

Good morning.

How are you sure about that?

I think I know what time it is.

And you slept right through breakfast and lunch and dinner.

Oh, that is a long time.

Yeah, it was.

We had to fend for ourselves because you locked yourself in your paddock.

Luckily, Mittens found those toaster pastry things and a few cans of beef stew.

Otherwise, we would have starved to death.

Wow.

I must have been tired.

I guess I'd just been working too hard lately or something.

I find that difficult to believe.

I guess I just needed some sleep.

I didn't think I was that tired.

But you know how the sandman catches up with you after a few days are running full steam ahead in the red line overload and all that.

You've never worked more than 20 minutes in a row in your life.

Well, I guess this is time it caught up with me.

But the good news is that I'm well rested and raring to go.

What's on for tonight, boss?

I can't believe you.

You come in here after sleeping for 36 hours straight, forcing us to cook for ourselves.

We left the dishes for you, by the way.

And now you ask me what's on for tonight?

Let me guess.

You don't have a movie, do you?

Oh, my gosh.

That's the movie.

Tonight is tonight, isn't it?

No, I guess I don't have one.

But when I do have this.

Oh, no.

I found that underneath my pillow.

I don't know how it got there.

That's it.

No crazy, wild story as to why you don't have a movie.

No madcap adventures, no unbelievable tale.

What was I merely report and chronicle what happens to me?

I don't make up stories this time.

I merely overslept.

Really?

You didn't lock your door, Open the window, climb down the storm pipe and run off to play the tambourine or the kazoo in some jazz band, only to get kicked out of the band in Kansas City, causing you to have to hitchhike back or something.

You aren't going to say You caught a ride back with an emu farmer and he made you ride in the back with his birds and you wrestled that little cane out the beak.

One of the huge angry birds?

No, I just overslept.

But if you show what's on that, can.

I'll go find us a movie tonight.

You know, I'm going to take my leave from you boys.

I have a movie to find.

What?

That.

That was odd.

Look, let's see what he gave me.

Oh.

Oh, no.

Chapter 11, The Flaming Death.

That sounds like an exciting title, doesn't it?

Sounds like we're in for quite a thrill ride, but spoiler alert, we aren't.

This is going to be awful.

#*Sapo screaming#* Holy cats.

Mittens.

Did you hear that?

I swear, it sounded like Sapo screaming in terror.

I hope it was.

Oh, God, I hope it was.

At any rate, folks, let's get to the horribly misnamed The Flaming Death here on Nightmare Theatre.

I mean, I know it sounded like he was screaming in fear for his life, like something terrible was happening to him.

But this might turn out to be a good night yet.

Enjoy the chapter, folks.

They're bombing the temple.

I must get Diane and the others out of there Herb will I order squad into the temple to make sure they're all accounted for?

There isn't a chance of anyone remaining alive after that.

Order your men back to the town.

Where's Diana?

She was in there with Sharon for the whole kingdom.

You all right, Billy?

Yes, I'm all right.

Let's find Diana Here she is!

You should Oh know I remember one of the pillars started to fall.

Right?

Crash.

I think he's dead.

Nothing we can do for him now.

This entire city is in ruins.

Councilman, all the way back to the tower.

Would you press the Norton again and compound, then never get back to the upper world alive.

Don't forget, we still have the submarine.

We better get down there right away in case we have to make a quick getaway.

But what are we going to do about that?

If Bobby, we take care of him right away.

As soon as the submarine is set to go.

Your Imperial Majesty, the sacred city is wiped out.

What of Sharon and the strangers from the upper world?

They all live buried beneath the wreckage.

Bring Professor Norton here to meet him you.

Send for me, master.

Are all the rocket motors attached to the base of the tower?

Yes, master.

How long will it take us to reach the upper world?

If we can strike the Gulfstream, we should be within reaching distance of the coast within 2 hours.

You mean you have no accurate calculations as to where we would emerge?

Only my charts and compass can give me that information.

My chart Compass.

I have the will.

My submarine hidden in the inland sea.

Captain Hacker Detection boat Guide and escort Professor Norton to the inland sea at once.

I'll wait here.

Hurry.

We have no time to wait.

I'd only be a moment Corrigan.

They're headed this way.

No doubt they're going to try to get back to the upper world on this submarine.

They'll never expect to find any bulkheads in the submarine beyond the hill along the next bend But I'll wait here while I raise the submarine.

I'll go with your crash.

Someone's been here.

What do you think it was?

I don't know.

We better take a look in the submarine.

I'll speak to the safety Board and take a peek around, just in case you stall around here and make a noise as if you're coming aboard.

Gee Crash, I thought you were a goner.

And so did I.

For a minute, Billy.

Come on down.

You and Diana stay with the submarine.

Wallach and I are going back to the town.

Rescue your father.

If the tower rises here, you'll be in a commanding position to start your conquest of the other world.

Are you rocket motors ready?

Yes, master.

They're primed for the final test.

Start the test.

These rocket motors, they'll bring you to a cinder Start the motor.

But be ready to cut it off before it goes full blast.

Now I'm satisfied my plans are complete.

I came with all the men on the boat.

Right.

We leave for the upper level immediately.

They're all checked, Your Majesty.

Except prepare sent to the inland sea.

Send those Duvall Braxton with the others.

You got to control what is Crash Corrigan checking on out of our crew to attack them?

No hunger con.

We're going to bring Professor Norton back to his normal senses.

My supreme account will do as you direct.

I wouldn't trust them too.

Ha!

I'm not trusting them at all.

Not so fast, Mark.

Get in there.

You'll have nothing to fear.

As long as I get my does what he has told.

I'm here at work.

These controls.

You better not make any mistakes.

Keep an eye on Bitmart.

I can hardly blame you for not recognizing me in this outfit, Lieutenant Corrigan.

That's right.

What are you doing here?

Where's my son and Diana?

They're safe in the submarine.

Bring that over here.

You'd better smash that thing quick.

Let's get down to the base of the tower.

Destroy those rocket motors.

What do you read?

The tower is ready to take off Erika Motors before Crash gets down there and destroys them.

Your Imperial Majesty.

They've broken the control.

It gets to the master Control and start the rocket motors behind.

But the strange is from the upper world.

Your Imperial Majesty.

Aren't you going to make any effort to stop them?

They won't get far.

Once the rocket motors are started.

The planes, when they exhaust, will take care of them.

No!

It's too late!

We've got to get out of here!

My God, I can't make it!

Well, hello and welcome back.

That was Chapter 11, The Flaming Death.

And boy, that was a flaming death.

We saw all those guys stuck under the rocket motors and their geese have got to be cook.

I hear rocket jets get very hot.

There's no way they're still alive.

There is dead is fried chicken.

What?

What?

I do put some money on it.

Do you really think I would bet on a cereal?

You might be able to pull that trick on our Sapo, But give me a little credit.

Speaking of that, I wonder where he's at.

Here I am, boys.

Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo!

That water was cold.

Oh, What.

Water?

Why do you have a towel wrapped around your head?

See, I was looking for a movie, right?

And I was way out there on the pigeon part of the 113th floor.

Did the pigeons have a movie?

Did you think birds store movies in their nests nowadays?

Or I can admit when I am wrong and I will say, not anymore.

Well, guys, one of the pigeons took exception to my rooting around and she started flapping and flying around in my head and I think I think a passing blue Jamie have given her a hand.

You know, I always thought those two kinds of birds didn't get along.

I thought they were natural enemies, but they got along a few minutes ago when they work together, one of them sort of picking up my fingers and I slipped off the roof and I fell 113 stories into the freezing water.

In a mood, huh?

Laugh it up, Mittens.

It's hilarious, man.

I wish I installed one of those security.

And I landed in a moat, and it was a pretty good layer of ice, but I busted right through it.

Since I'm 100% muscle.

I'm going to need to see the paperwork on that.

And I think right to the bottom of the moat, You know, I did not know alligators lived in cold water, but one of them saw me and started nipping at me and I was fighting him off.

I was fighting for my life.

It was a fight for survival.

And I almost didn't make it out of there.

But at the bottom of the moat, I found this film card.

Luckily, I was away, were able to get away with this Can't end with my life.

Let me see.

Oh, no.

I knew you would be happy.

I knew you would be happy.

If I am happy.

And that's a big if I'm happy because you fell off a perch and into the moat.

I'm also happy that a pigeon attacked you.

And an alligator tried to also.

But I didn't even get to tell you about the turtle that latched onto one of my feet.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's hilarious.

Won't make anyone happy, but I'm not happy about this film.

Well, what is wrong with the boss?

Tell me what?

You should even look at this.

Know when I was underwater, I had my eyes closed most of the time.

And since the pigeons on that turncoat Blue Jay were still patrolling the surface, I couldn't pop up for air.

Birds carry grudges, boss.

They carry grudges.

Let me tell you, there were some ducks up there, and they were still mad at me for stealing their bread and corn that time.

And I had a turtle clamped onto my foot, so I really couldn't climb out of the moat to the glorious dry land.

So I had to swim through the drainage tube in Section G. I really wish that tube had been locked.

Sapo This movie, this movie is Monster from the Ocean Floor, but.

That's a great title, boss.

I bet it's a great movie.

I bet this monster is one rough customer.

It's going to be scary.

I bet it's going to be a good movie.

And I already.

It's a bad movie and I hate.

It, but there's got to be something good in it.

Though.

That's not true.

There's doesn't have to be something.

Come on, boss.

I know I'm not the sharpest knife in the fruit desk.

That's for sure.

But I know when you are keeping something from me.

There must be something good in this movie.

Nope.

Not one thing.

Did I stutter?

There is nothing good.

Well, I guess in an alternate universe, maybe.

I got you.

I knew there was something.

Floyd Crosby was a cinematographer for this movie.

Yes, yes, yes.

Do you know who that is?

No.

I didn't think so.

Floyd Crosby was a decent cinematographer.

Well, he did turn out some bad movies.

For example, in 1965, he did How to Stuff a Wild Bikini.

I stuff a pretty wild bikini myself.

Yeah, that's a horrible image.

He also did The Yellow Canary in 1963, but believe it or not, he won an Oscar in 1931.

He was the cinematographer for a movie called Taboo A Story of the South Seas, which was directed by the great F.W.

Murnau.

Crosby also did High Noon in 1952, so he did do some good things.

So there is something good in this.

Movie I can grant.

Cosby did some good work and still not like the movie.

I like the title.

Tell me about this ocean floor, boss.

Because, you know, I was down just down here on the moat floor.

I think the same thing.

You should conduct a field experiment at the bottom of the ocean floor and report back to me.

After escaping the jaws of a gator or a turtle, a duck, a pigeon and a blue jay.

It's going to be quite some time before I go back or even near the water.

I mean, you will be, though, right?

That will be a game time decision, boss.

It'll be called an audible.

I can't make any promises.

I'll get to the edge of the pond and we'll see what happens.

I'll just have Mittens turn the fire hose on you again.

How was good for a laugh, folks.

Let's get right into Monster from the Ocean Floor with cinematography done by a real life bona fide Oscar winner.

Although you'd never know it to look at it here on Nightmare Theatre.

The tropical waters of the Pacific Ocean, along with shore native villages, have existed for thousands of years.

But where the white man is a newcomer for all its beauty, little is known about the land near the water's edge.

And less is known about what lies beneath the water's surface.

The natives tell strange stories about these stories, which to this day not been disproved.

The above water portions of this motion picture were photographed along this coast.

The underwater sequences were actually filmed off insurers at the bottom of the ocean.

You like it?

See, my father.

He wasn't really the kind of person he didn't know.

He don't know nothing.

He is dead.

I'm sorry.

How can you capture the strength of the sea with paint and a brush?

I do not blame you.

See, it makes motion happen.

It took my father.

Was he drowned?

No.

The thing that got him this thing.

What was it?

A big devil.

Some kind of a sea monster.

Much worse.

You must let your imagination run away with you.

I speak only the truth.

And the call was a terrible thing.

That my father.

He is no longer here.

I'm sorry about your father, but we've got to be realistic.

I've been swimming in that cove every day of my vacation, and I've yet to see anything any larger than a plastic.

You have your Billy.

I have mine.

Hello.

Can I give you a lift?

Very funny.

Look, I'm sorry, sir.

I just didn't get here.

Let me help.

Hey, that's good.

You really love that, don't you?

You think you know I'm a marine biologist, Steve.

Nothing's my name.

What's yours?

Julie.

Blanche.

You do this kind of painting for a living, Julie?

No, I'm a merchandise illustrator.

well, that's where you paint.

Washing machines, vacuum cleaners, pots and pans Takes talent.

Marine biologist.

I'm on the staff.

Stanford.

I was assigned, along with Dr. Walden, to do some research down here along the coast.

Nice work.

Didn't get it.

Did you know that over 70% of the Earth's surface is covered with water?

I think alone here has an area of over 73 million square miles.

The Atlantic.

I'm sorry.

There I go.

Making noises like a biologist again.

All right.

I've enjoyed hearing you.

So how would you like to be able to greet Dr. Baldwin and see the kind of work we do?

No.

Hi.

Come on.

It'll be fun.

Do you think both of us could fit into that?

How do you call that thing, anyway?

That's my submarine.

Come on, I'll show you.

All right.

No engine.

I furnished the power.

It'll do anything An airplane can do!

Will it fly?

Underwater.

How about you?

Ready?

What do I do?

Well, you can help me get into the water.

You hang on.

I'll stay on the surface.

Dr. Rollins, likely to be human player.

Welcome aboard.

Thank you.

Watch it now.

It's slippery.

it is.

And this is Tommy, our one man.

Hello.

Would you like a towel?

Wow.

Care to see some of the work we do, Julie?

I'd love to hear it back down here.

I'll fix this for you.

Now, take a look inside.

You're looking at diatoms, Julie.

single celled algae encased in glass like boxes.

Well, they're stunning.

Yeah.

Let me show you another.

There.

those tiny, active particles are various forms of protozoa for their size.

The most deadly in the world.

Lucky for us, they never grew any larger than this.

It's unbelievable.

You know, the ocean's unbelievable, too, by the living matter.

And it is enough to stagger the mind.

Think of it.

One female cod alone place over 8 million eggs in the North Sea.

We have more than 67,000.

Easy, easy, easy.

Everyone doesn't share our enthusiasm.

I do take over Dr. BOLLEN, and I share some pretty strong theories.

We feel the time is running out on the human race.

In what way?

Well, our population is growing too fast for our limited farmland.

The soil is beginning to lose its vigor.

We feel that unless a new food sources are found pretty soon, mankind is headed for a slow extinction.

But as far Steve and I both feel that the future food supply will have to come from the city itself.

If we don't like this, then what?

Well, we aren't talking about seafood alone.

I would you think, for instance, of growing crops on the floor of the ocean?

How long do you think it will be before we can look to the states for this fast?

not for a few years.

What's wrong?

You probably.

Well, what's the problem?

I put up a lot of my practice.

I'm just going to die 5 minutes, right?

Just say nothing but fire.

I'm going over the following foods.

No sign of consciousness.

You must be down there thoroughly.

Not a sun.

Well, it's cold.

How we get out of soup that afternoon.

So best.

No, man.

Get through that.

Then what happened to him?

Well, hello and welcome back.

Let me recap so far.

Get this, there's a lady and there's an ocean that has an ocean floor.

That's where we are up to now.

It's very thrilling and exciting, isn't it?

No, I kind of like it.

And I'm sure you do.

Hey, can you tell me anything about the people in this movie?

Why would you want to know anything about these people?

Me, student of my fellow man, I want to know everything about everybody.

So you're saying you're nosy?

That is one way to put it.

I like to think I'm just naturally curious.

I'm like.

Cats are notoriously clean.

You're nothing like a cat.

A shed Like a cat.

That's true.

I have the attention span of a cat.

That's true.

I like balls of yarn and sleeping out in the yard in the sunlight like a cat.

I guess you got that.

I hate water.

Just like a cat.

That's true.

I get stuck up in trees all the time, just like a cat.

Stop talking about cats.

Why do you care about the people in this movie?

I just always want to know things.

Can you tell me who directed this movie.

Wyott Ordung.

That's a name you just made up!

No, no, I didn't.

The man's name was really Wyott Ordung.

Whyot Ordone -Wyacht Ordun- Wyatt Ordoing.

Look, it's a weird name, but the man didn't name himself.

It's not like he woke up one morning and told everyone to start calling him Wyott Ordung instead of Herb Applebaum.

A man can't help it if his folks gave him a silly name.

But you know what?

He's known as Wyott Ordung Director, What's your claim to fame?

I took third runner up in the Vuyani sausage eating contest in Waycross, Georgia, in 1962.

That's some claim to fame.

How many people were in the contest, by the way?

Four?

Is that third runner up, really Fourth place?

That's what some people call it, I guess.

Dead last.

This guy, on the other hand, is a director, a Hollywood director.

Well, did he direct anything else?

As a matter of fact, he did.

He directed a film called Walk the Dark Street in 1956.

Only two films.

Well, he was an assistant director on the Navy versus the Night Monster's in 1966, A Whale of a Tale in 1976.

And I swear I'm not making this up.

The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals in 1969.

Ooh, that's not a whole lot of movies.

I guess he wasn't that good of a director, was he?

How many movies have you directed, Sapo?

Not as many as what, I guess.

Nope, not as many as Wyott.

Did you know why he was a you know, he was a writer, too.

If, for example, he wrote the screenplay for Robot Monster in 1953.

Well, I guess he was a man of many talents.

Compared to you.

He was.

He was an actor as well.

Probably best known as Babies on the Dick Tracy TV show in the fifties.

Here's something he's even in this movie.

I'll let you guess who he is.

Oh, that'll be fine.

Who else is in this movie?

Who else?

Before I get to that, I got to tell everyone at home something.

This was the first film Roger Corman produced.

Now I know that name, boss.

I've heard you talk about him before.

I'm sure you do.

And I'm sure we will talk about him more later on.

Okay.

Well, who else is in this.

Movie other than Wyott Ordung?

Stuart Wade, Dick Pinner, Inez Palange and Corman mainstay.

Jonathan Haze round out the cast.

That sounds like a great cast.

It isn't, folks.

Let's get back to Monster from the Ocean Floor, by the way.

Sapo Do you know what the original name for this movie was?

The the pasty man fights the sea Monsters.

No, but that's a good try.

The original title was its Stalked The Ocean Floor.

But industry types thought the word stalked was too fancy and highfalutin for movie audiences, so they changed it.

So, folks, let's get back to the movie whose original title confounded and befuddled audiences here on Nightmare Theatre.

Joe, I'd like to talk to you about what happened yesterday.

I've heard that there's some kind of devil down in the coast.

Do you know anything about.

There is some truth.

Do you know what?

Whatever it is, it looks like.

I do not know.

But whatever it is, it is not like anything we have ever seen.

When did the first stories about this thing start?

I remember my sister.

She was married.

That's what year?

1946 from 1940.

Soon after the end of the war.

Don't you know anything else about this?

I want every fact I can uncover.

I know nothing more, Alan.

He was here all his life.

Perhaps he can help because this is home.

Wait.

See?

It's a gift.

No, it's for you.

You, You've lived here a long time.

Haven't you seen so many stories about your home?

They say that the devil is these days.

One believes many things.

I'm just telling people you do damage.

Of course.

And you either the ocean shows many forms of life.

There are many stand stories.

So there is reason.

With my own eyes, I have seen a shark weighing over 60 feet.

The scientific world say that no shark was more than 40 feet or so, they say.

So it is to be by soft nature, senorita.

Nature, in her way, does many strange things.

Sometimes she knows not want to start and sometimes does not know when to stop.

Then you think there is a chance of what I'm saying.

Have you ever seen anything strange done on the coast?

any time I see something.

Once I see tracks.

Not from turtles, not from seals made from some strange, shapeless things that come from water on ice cold.

But sap, how large was all?

Well, bigger than wider than in house.

Do you have any idea what collapse of trees?

Have you ever seen anything else?

One night.

One night in the surf, for instance.

Deep.

I see something.

First I think it would last for.

I see.

And there's nothing with nothing like mother reveals how much anything I ever see.

The lantern was one of red eyes.

Only one not only lost its blood, stared at me and panicked.

It slowly went and went down into the sea again.

Could you make out the shape?

I thought, like a bastard.

All I say to him I had no problem.

I believe he saw it.

One more question.

A kind of a night.

La la la la.

She was.

It was a full moon.

Hello, and welcome back.

Well, this is some movie, huh?

Lots of shots of water out there.

The sea sure looks interesting, but yeah, I like them underwater scenes.

Oh, do you?

Yeah, I like it.

It looks like there are a lot of neat things beneath the surface of the waves.

Well, I bet there's a whole world down there.

The sea is a magical wonderland.

And I would like to go to the sea.

I've heard the sea builds character.

I think a sea voyage will be fun.

Might make a man out of me.

There's probably a lot of opportunities out there, too.

I Wait.

I thought you said you were never getting near the water again.

Didn't you have a run in with an otter or something earlier?

Was it a duck billed platypus or.

Now I have had my differences with some creatures in them.

That is the truth.

But seeing all this underwater stuff, all this ocean stuff has made me realize there's a lot out there to see.

There's a lot to see out there, and there's a lot to see down there, too.

All right, Gilligan, you can have at it.

But I'm telling you this, if you plan on booking us on some excursion with a boat with scuba diving side trips, you can count me out.

Yeah, he said.

He says you can count him out, too.

If you want to paddle out to sea, you can go by yourself.

Oh, I won't be alone.

Well, neither of us is going with you.

And I'm pretty sure that man down there in the sub sub sub basement doesn't want to get on a boat with you.

Oh, that's okay, boss, because I am just about to start a fabulous new club.

Get all the cool kids out there.

Want to join?

Kids love the ocean open, boss.

They love the waves, the saltier the seagulls.

My club members will head out to sea with me.

All right.

Here we go.

I'd like to take.

I'd like to take a brief moment to talk to all the kids out there.

Kids?

Whatever he says, do not listen to him.

Are you bored?

Do you feel the need for adventure on the high seas?

Are you willing to sign a liability for form?

Do you have five books?

Do you like to sing Sea Chanties?

No kid likes to sing Sea Chanties.

Answered yes to any of those questions that this is your golden ticket to high adventure.

There's a.

Stop kid.

You can be the first on your block to join every sailor supposed sea scouts.

You're not a sailor.

And what kids would want to join your club?

Who will?

Kids to sweet kids to happen to kids.

Fat kids, Skinny kids, kids.

You throw big rocks.

Tough kids, Lazy kids, Even kids.

Probably in old red socks.

The daredevils and I suppose kids with nothing better to do.

Probably want to join as well.

And you will probably get a few delinquents in troubled teens, but the sea will turn them into good people just like it did to me.

And do you know a lot about the sea, Sapo?

What's there to know?

I'll figure it out.

I'll get me a mess of boats and maybe some oars.

And maybe a sailor too.

I'll get one of them.

Kayaks and things will be fine.

I mean, what about life vests for the kids who can't swim?

Ooh, that is too expensive.

Plus, the waiver will cover us.

Their kids.

If you join sailor supplies sea scouts today, you'll get it.

All you see here, you'll get a seashell.

Good Lord.

Is that a pasta show?

You'll get a pirate hat, you'll get a pipe, you'll get a list of cheap defense attorneys working in your town.

You'll get a cool membership card signed by your old pal Sailor sample or by his designated representative.

In the Navy sign and.

Nothing.

And you'll also get a handcuff key.

And kids, I can't stress this enough.

Keep this key on you at all times.

24 hours a day, eight days a week.

It will definitely come in handy if you are in this club.

Believe me, By the way, this key works on cuffs used in 48 states.

So if you are in Utah or Montana, you're out of luck.

And this club is not for you.

Are Utah and Montana even close to the sea?

I think so.

But I'll leave that to the boys down in the map division.

So what will kids do in this club, Sapo?

Oh, they'll do all sorts of things.

Such as?

Will go on sea bass adventures where life and limb are constantly at risk.

And the only thing standing between a man or a woman and certain death is his faith in his teammates and the strength of the nuts he can tie.

I'll teach kids to be a reliable, dependable, to be trustworthy, and to never, ever, ever lie unless he's absolutely sure he can get away with it.

And they'll also sing Sea Chanties like this one.

Yo, ho, ho, ho!

I suppose life for me.

Oh, gather around.

I don't think you a song about a man who could do no wrong.

He was a cool guy and he wore a black mask, and he could do about any time.

All right, that's enough of that.

Who is the guy in the Black Mask you're singing about?

The Zorro.

Join.

Oh, it's me.

I'm talking about me.

I'm talking about me.

No, Sapo, no kid is going to join the club when they go out on a boat and sing songs about you.

With you?

Oh, they might, but.

They won't leave the sea alone.

Sapo Sure.

The sea is a wonderful, magical place full of interesting things.

I'm sure there are things down there we can't imagine.

Truly glorious sights to behold.

The one thing the sea doesn't need is you and your gang of.

Hooligans, sea scouts, posse.

Whatever.

The sea doesn't need someone like you befalling it.

It's bad enough there are rumors of sea monsters out there.

We don't need you.

Add to it, folks.

Let's get back to Monster from the Ocean Floor.

And by the way, if Sapo does go out to sea, I hope he meets the monster.

I truly do.

Joe, I'd like to talk to you about what happened yesterday.

I've heard that there's some kind of devil down in the coast.

Do you know anything about.

There is some truth.

Do you know what?

Whatever it is, it looks like.

I do not know.

But whatever it is, it is not like anything we have ever seen.

When did the first stories about this thing start?

I remember my sister.

She was married.

That's what year?

1946 from 1940.

Soon after the end of the war.

Don't you know anything else about this?

I want every fact I can uncover.

I know nothing more, Alan.

He was here all his life.

Perhaps he can help because this is home.

Wait.

See?

It's a gift.

No, it's for you.

You, You've lived here a long time.

Haven't you seen so many stories about your home?

They say that the devil is these days.

One believes many things.

I'm just telling people you do damage.

Of course.

And you either the ocean shows many forms of life.

There are many stand stories.

So there is reason.

With my own eyes, I have seen a shark weighing over 60 feet.

The scientific world say that no shark was more than 40 feet or so, they say.

So it is to be by soft nature, senorita.

Nature, in her way, does many strange things.

Sometimes she knows not want to start and sometimes does not know when to stop.

Then you think there is a chance of what I'm saying.

Have you ever seen anything strange done on the coast?

any time I see something.

Once I see tracks.

Not from turtles, not from seals made from some strange, shapeless things that come from water on ice cold.

But sap, how large was all?

Well, bigger than wider than in house.

Do you have any idea what collapse of trees?

Have you ever seen anything else?

One night.

One night in the surf, for instance.

Deep.

I see something.

First I think it would last for.

I see.

And there's nothing with nothing like mother reveals how much anything I ever see.

The lantern was one of red eyes.

Only one not only lost its blood, stared at me and panicked.

It slowly went and went down into the sea again.

Could you make out the shape?

I thought, like a bastard.

All I say to him I had no problem.

I believe he saw it.

One more question.

A kind of a night.

La la la la.

She was.

It was a full moon.

Well, hello and welcome back.

So far, this movie is living up to Wyott Ordung's reputation, isn't it?

You said he was in this movie.

Is he the guy in the sub?

Nope.

The guy in the boat?

Nope.

Well, he certainly isn't that lady, is he?

No, but that lady is a very special character.

Was she in the movie because she won a contest or she was the only one who showed up at the casting call?

No, but she's very unique.

So is this movie in a way?

How so?

Somehow this movie is unique in that Julie Blair, the female lead character.

Who will slow down, professor who played.

Her as she was played by Anne Kimble.

What else was she And.

Can you let me finish my train of thought?

I was making a very important point here.

But I can't wait.

I can't wait.

I can't wait.

All right, calm down.

She was, wasn't she?

Wouldn't make a lot of movies.

In fact, she retired from the movie business.

She married a Foreign Service officer and traveled all over the world with them.

She became very active in women's issues, running programs, encouraging women to start their own businesses and helping them obtain their own advanced degree so they can provide for themselves without having to rely on a man.

She was a dynamic, independent lady.

Later in life, she wrote a series of spy novels focused on international espionage, which interestingly feeds the point I was.

Made that you you want me to write spy novels way ahead of you.

The first chapter of the super spy novel will come out in a few weeks.

All I need, all I need is an idea, a title, and someone to write it and type it up for me.

I don't want you to write Spy.

I got it, I got it.

I can.

Maybe I could write about that time.

I figured out that that beer company was spiking beer with drugs so that when that evil man could control their mind, when certain musical notes were played.

Remember that, boss?

Remember how I foiled that guy's plan?

By drinking that huge tank of beer?

You know, Sapo, I can.

I can really let a lot of things slide around here.

A lot of things.

But you're not going to steal the plot of one of the greatest movies ever made and claim it as your own.

I'll change it to a soda company.

No one will ever notice.

You are not stealing from Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis just let me finish what I was saying.

Just shut up and listen.

I'll be as quiet as the audience at a Dane Cook show.

Good.

That's very quiet.

See Sapo in most movies made in the fifties and sixties, the female characters were just there as the type of eye candy, something pretty for the audience to gawk at.

That's why we got Mittens, right?

You damn right.

But back to my point.

In most movies of the time, especially those in sci fi or horror genre, the male leads were always running around, barking out orders, claiming they were in control, spouting one stupid idea.

After another and behaving like jackasses.

The female characters just brought coffee or made sandwiches.

What kind of sandwiches?

All kinds.

Whatever the men wanted.

But in this movie, it's different.

No sandwiches, no coffee?

Nope.

No sandwiches, no coffee, no snacks.

Nope.

Here's how this movie is a little different.

See, in this movie, the female lead is the center of the action.

She figures out the link between the boy's dead father and the abalone diver who gets sucked right through the mask.

All of his dive suit long before anyone else.

She knows there's something out there, but the men doubt and discount her.

In a perfect world, one of those doubting men would have been killed by the monster.

In his dying words to Julie would have been.

You are right about that monster, dear.

I'm sorry I ever doubted you.

Do you forgive me?

And then she would have looked him in his dying eyes and said, No, I don't know.

I would like to see that happen just once in one of these old movies.

Well, you won't.

But like I was saying, this movie is a bit different than the ten zillion other sci fi movies made that year.

Julie is quite possibly the most sympathetic portrait of a woman in a leading role in a fifties B-movie.

She's like Ellen Ripley from Aliens decades before that movie was made.

She knows something is wrong, but none of the men will listen to it.

Well, if she's so smart and why is she hanging around with that Steve guy.

That is the greatest unsolved mystery in movie history.

But to be fair, there really weren't a lot of suitable single men in that town.

Steve was the pick of the litter.

But that's not the issue.

This is the issue strong female characters were few and far between.

Sapo and this movie has won.

Corman, despite his many flaws, apparently had very strong feminist leanings when it came to how he cast his early films.

What does that mean?

Corman?

Corman was no dummy.

He knew that if you put a pretty lady in a bikini or a skimpy costume.

Hey, if that's what drives up the viewers to say the word, you want me to wear a one piece or a two piece.

I am completely ignoring that comment.

Back to my point.

See, Corman knew teenage boys would show up to watch the movie just to see the female in her bathing suit.

But many times Corman made those same female, strong, self-sufficient characters.

He made movies like Swamp Women and Apache Woman in 1955 and the Oklahoma Woman in 1956.

In each of these movies, he assigned the major action roles to a dynamic female protagonist rather than the typically generic, chauvinistic, leading man.

Here's something you can take to the bank.

Sapo Women are generally, and in your case, specifically, smarter than men.

If you're ever thinking about doing something and the lady, you know, says, I don't think that's a good idea, you should listen to that woman.

I know.

I should have listened to that lady at the temp agency when she told me not to hire you.

But no, no, I had to do things my way.

Always listen to the women.

Sapo.

Wait, wait, wait.

What was that?

That little boy she was talking to?

That is why I don't know, folks.

I just.

Let's get back to the movie starring Wyott or Dong in a role Sapo is yet to guess.

Monster from the Ocean Floor here on Nightmare Theatre.

Beautiful morning, isn't it?

The thing you did, it is wasted on me.

My girlfriend.

He's gone for freedom.

For 12 years we have been together.

Now he is no longer with me.

Do you have any idea where he could have gone now, senorita?

One night he was here.

Next morning, no sign.

Has he ever done this before?

No.

See you later.

Perhaps you better report it.

I did.

They said they would see.

I'm sure they will.

Maybe.

Maybe not.

Why should anyone get excited or go?

Freedom is nothing but an old dog.

A dog?

I thought that it was your.

Never mind one.

Get accustomed to a dog.

Cowboy?

Perhaps he just wandered off on a little excursion of his own.

No, no.

I had in fact, dog house with collar and chain.

The collar is still locked.

My girlfriend is no longer in it, but attracts a strange trek from beach to color.

What did this track look like?

Rough.

Very rough.

Like something very, very heavy.

Black boyfriend.

Would you say that it was as large as a wagon?

Bigger, bigger two even three wagons.

La, la la.

Cabrera.

no.

I knew it from.

And you?

La la la la.

A melody We play in the tune.

Something else in a minute.

Wow.

Clouds are opening up.

Look at that moon fall and rounder.

And any moon has a right to be.

The moon is full granted.

But why the big reaction?

Hey, what is this?

Pablo told me that something in the cold comes out on moonlight night.

Julie, if a man had enough tequila liable to see a lot of things, I believe it.

Okay.

tell me, what exactly was this thing looked like?

Pablo said that he couldn't make out the shape, but that it was a huge mess with a red eye.

The bright red brother.

I knew you wouldn't believe me.

Listen, Pablo isn't the only one who is seeing the monster.

I talked to Job too.

And he told me something, Joe.

You know the man whose partner disappeared from his dive?

Joe told me that the stories about this thing all began back in the summer of 1946.

Why do you suppose there were no reports about this thing until 1946?

What could have happened then to start the story?

1946.

Well, the the bikini underwater experiments were set off, and maybe that started something.

Maybe it did stay in the radiation that that bomb could have reached the spot.

They could have called something in that code to grow into a monster.

Julie, look, you're a lovely girl, but lovely girls just don't run around worrying about non-existent sea monsters.

Promise me you'll get off this thing once and for all.

I'm going to prove to you that I'm right.

They knew they could do it.

Dr. Beaumont just received this wire from the university confirming our funds for the experiment.

Good.

Now we can move on down the coast.

I'm very glad for you.

it'll just be a few weeks, Julie.

And we'll be back.

How soon you leaving?

First thing in the morning.

We've got a lot of things to do tonight, Stevi.

I guess you better go help Dr. Bolton with the packing.

Look, come back to the hotel with us.

No, I just be in the way.

I think I'll stay here for a while.

Well, all right.

We'll be getting our mail at the Paz.

You write to me there.

If anything important turns up, I'll write to you.

Write to me.

If only to tell me what you had for breakfast.

We'll be looking forward to seeing you again, Julie.

Goodbye for now.

Goodbye.

See you later, Steve.

Goodbye, Julie.

Goodbye.

You know, I could fall in love with you, Julie.

You've only known me a few hours.

Goodbye.

Julie I'll be back.

Hey Pablo!

And I said we can the moon future the You're not set for what it brings.

I do not understand you.

You're not a good deceiver.

You know what I think?

Superstition.

What is it?

Superstition.

That sounds.

It should.

I don't know.

Evil God has plagued our people before.

Only in one way can they be appeased.

The fairies must be sacrificed to this thing better.

That would be the younger Americano.

Full face in the cold.

Such things cannot be.

Someone must make certain she fulfills her destiny.

I you.

You.

You have the blood of young people in your veins.

You will do it.

No, I cannot do such a thing.

No one believes the sacrifices anymore.

The new generation, the people in cities, they do not believe.

But do you?

Will I.

We have the belief of our fathers.

Our fathers alone.

This to who is your God?

We have to confess.

Are there no one but the partner?

So shall do as I say.

What is one life?

When it will save many, It is simply a shackle as seen in the cold.

Early today.

Tomorrow the girl shall be taken to the cold and the shock will do the rest.

And you will carry out my command.

Hello, and welcome back.

Okay, we have to address something that happened earlier.

But are you okay, boss?

What's matter?

I'm fine.

I just think it's high time we dealt with something we talked about earlier.

We need to handle it.

Oh, wait.

Are you talking about how you guys laughed at me when I fell off of that perch and into the moat?

There's no need to apologize.

We're good.

No, no, that's not what I'm talking about at all.

I want to apologize for laughing at something that was extremely hilarious.

And neither will you.

William Mittens.

What I want to talk about is Roger Corman.

This was the very first film he produced, the one that started it all.

And get this, Corman himself is in the movie.

I'll let you guess what role he plays.

He's in the movie.

He played that little kid the lady was talking to, right?

He is that little boy.

No, he didn't.

He's a grown man.

Did not play a small child gang.

And folks, while he may not be a great actor, he did manage to get this movie made as well as about a billion other movies.

Corman was a very smart man.

He didn't go to college to learn how to make movies.

Neither did I.

He went to school to be an engineer who.

I always wanted to drive a train myself.

Oh, rail yard supply.

They call me the pappy of the rails, The old Kremlin hobo and a singing brakeman.

Not that kind of engineer.

He went to the elite Stanford University to study industrial engineering.

He eventually got a job at a company called US Electrical Motors, but his career in engineering only lasted four days.

I've had a lot of jobs like that.

Yeah, he started.

Yeah.

Uh huh.

He started on Monday and quit the following Thursday.

I never quit a job.

I was usually fired.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

His brother Gene was already in the movie business.

Corman got a job in the mailroom of a studio, and he worked his way up the corporate ladder.

My corporate is always go the other direction.

They go down?

Yeah.

He eventually sold a script he wrote, and then he raised enough additional money to make this movie.

Like I said, he was trained to be an engineer, so he decided to look at moviemaking as an engineering problem, how to get the maximum output through the most efficient methods.

What does that even mean?

He followed a process.

He saved money whenever and wherever he could.

He streamlined operations, used sets again and again and materials.

He reused music.

He set up the cameras himself.

He learned when to borrow and when to steal ideas to avoid union contracts.

He drove vehicles himself.

Trains?

He never drove a train.

The point is, he understood moviemaking as a process, and he looked at it in terms of problem solution.

Making the movie was the problem, and he his engineer brain to the solution.

He also followed a simple formula Don't be first, pay attention to what is popular cash in on that wave and make his version for much cheaper.

He made a lot of movies and he did fairly well.

His movies might not have won him any fancy awards, but he sure made a lot of them.

So he saved money.

But he must have had a lot of expenses.

Like how much did he have to pay that guy to direct this movie?

Or suppose you might not believe this, but he actually talked all into paying him $500 in order to direct this film.

Seriously, The director paid him to be in the movie.

That's a pretty good scam, getting people to pay you to be in their movie.

While raising money for projects is hard work.

Can you imagine what it must be like to have to raise all your own money for your project yourself?

Raising the money was hard, but he gave a lot of people to start in the movies.

Most of them didn't have to pay for him for the opportunity.

Who else did he work with?

Any big shot, Any big names, Any big guys?

Any big shots?

Any big star?

I mean, just about everyone.

Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Joe Dante and even James Cameron all worked with Corman in the early days.

He had an eye for talent and he knew how to get the best and most out of people.

Wow.

Just imagine what a man like that could have done with a man like me.

Yeah, well, I guess suppose there are sharks in this movie, so you would have made great shark bait Corman still around making movies.

Maybe he needs shark bait.

Boy, you should give him a call, folks.

Let's get back to Monster from the Ocean Floor here on Nightmare Theatre.

Yes.

Exactly.

Where do you think the solidarity bonds for the rock?

I see it late last night.

The water flow ramp.

We're on the trail now.

Only one thing, senorita.

Do not take a risk.

I wonder how Julia is.

I am girl.

Julie.

Pretty good with a head on her shoulders to, among other things.

Only if it wasn't for that which child of hers?

Lots of people suffer that way.

What sort of beasts does she fear?

Well, she's firmly convinced that some sort of horrible monster is lurking in the cold, devouring every living thing that crosses its path.

Any basis for abuse?

None.

Don't be so smug, Steve.

no, You too.

Lots of intelligent people suffer from things like that.

Come on now, Doctor.

You're a man of science.

You know as well as I that these things usually turn out to be an overgrown sperm whale or something similar.

I noticed you said.

Usually you seem be making exceptions.

All right, Don't change my statement.

They always turn out to be some simple form of life.

I disagree.

Lots of times nature plays tricks on us.

Like the one you're playing now.

no.

Let me tell you a story of my own experience.

I was working down in South America a few years ago for an oil company.

We kept hearing stories of people disappearing just like in the comic books.

Exactly.

Only the stories the natives told them.

It was a huge flying reptiles.

Are you sure it wasn't a flying red horse?

No.

It seems this monster originated from the depths of the ocean to soar landward in search of warm blooded victims.

The description led me to believe it was a random winged reptile with a wingspan of 30 feet.

He was extinct after the Stone Age.

Well, I found it hard to believe, too, until one day a severe storm struck our area.

It lasted about a week, and when it was over, I was taking a stroll on the beach.

That's when I found it.

Found what?

A large leathery object the size of a watermelon.

I took it to the lab and dissected it, and it turned out to be a reptilian egg.

It had the embryonic structure of a torrent.

And while that sort of finding has happened before, I know, but this egg wasn't fossilized.

The egg was still alive.

Soon that egg would have had released a monstrous form of life that supposedly has been extinct for hundreds of centuries.

Hello, and welcome back.

Monster from the Ocean Floor is chugging right along in it.

Boss, one thing in this movie really confuses me.

Oh, really?

Just one thing.

Is it about who Wyott or Dong is playing?

No, I haven't figured that out yet.

And I think you made that whole thing up.

Sapo.

I never make things.

I always tell the unvarnished truth.

Okay, okay, but here's my question.

What is the deal with that submarine thing?

That dumb guy is always driving around.

Was that a real thing?

Sapper, That's an arrow Jet submarine.

Really?

Yep.

They were made in the fifties and they ran on pedal power.

Paddle power.

What is that, boss?

Think of it like an undersea bicycle.

He basically had pedals that moves the propellers on the back of the sub and inside the sub that controls that would make the sub dive or climb.

It was a really interesting piece of machinery.

Well, that's not been my experience, and my feet would tell another tale.

Still, I bet it would have been fun to be in that.

So it looks kind of fun.

Oh yeah.

Suppo I think pedaling for hours and hours in 500 feet of shark infested water until my lungs explode.

Sounds like a dream come true.

Did I mention you had to wear an air tank and a subject cabin filled with water?

That sub combines all the fun of extremely vigorous exercise, restricted and limited air supplies, and the deep, dark terrors of the ocean.

Where do I sign up?

I bet something like that was very expensive.

It was.

In fact, it cost over $10,000 and far beyond the means of most people back then.

So getting one would have been very hard, very expensive.

Yeah, unless you're made of money.

I had been waiting for this moment for a very long time.

I finally have you trapped in a lie.

You are making all this stuff up.

You just said this thing was $10,000.

And earlier you said Corman was a cheapskate who had no money.

So how did he afford one of these?

Where did he get the money for the sword?

Huh?

He did steal one like I would have done You.

Are you, sir, are stuck in the liars web.

Sapo Sapo Sapo.

I have never told a lie.

Not even once.

The sub company let Corman use it for free.

No.

Corman saw an article about the submarine in the L.A. newspaper.

He had a brilliant idea.

He called the sub company and asked if he could borrow one for his movie.

And they fell for it.

Hook, line and sinker.

Corman was able to secure one of the subs for his movie for nothing at all.

Not a penny.

He told them he would give them a credit in the movie.

It was an early example of product placement.

The movie would market the sub to sub buying public.

Who went to see Corman's movies?

Corman's pitch was that after people saw the movie, they would be the blazing path to the sub shop door, cash in hand.

And did they?

Of course.

Not.

But it just illustrates Corman's ability to get what he wanted without having to pay for it.

I get what I want all the time without paying for it.

Yeah, but he did it legally.

He got a free sub to use in his movie and it didn't cost him a said.

I got to admit, Corman knew how to get things done.

Folks, let's get back to Monster from the Ocean Floor, featuring the Aero jet submarine and a cameo by Roger Corman himself here on Nightmare Theatre.

For a pretty century, we who live in San Vicente.

I have meeting with him for supper.

something is wrong.

I'm going to ask you to throw me out of the colony.

manana, perhaps, but not today.

Besides, you think it wise after your meeting with the shark?

I'm not afraid.

Hey, why don't I take my boat?

Kill it when you don't bothers me.

Come permit me.

I put your things in the boat.

Would you please look at my back door to see if it is locked?

good.

I couldn't figure it out.

Now, they look like they were doing the same thing.

But I couldn't.

They were worlds apart.

See, one guy was pickin and the other guy, well, he was grinning.

What no one guy was picking and one guy was grinning.

Yeah, but.

How did they feel about spreading gossip?

Oh, I don't spread it.

You got to listen close the first time I say.

Oh, okay.

Oh, here we are again.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back.

We're in the sub sub, sub sub basement of the television studio with the mysterious curator, once again from the Marrow Movie Museum.

And he seems to have brought us the catch of the day.

To the days.

Where people are going to get their fish today.

But we have one here, Sushi, probably some fried fish.

Maybe grill it later.

What is this one of them?

Once you push a button and it sings, I get down to the river.

No, but I think it might eat your face if you're not too careful.

This a too late.

A piranha from piranha three double the.

Three.

The cleverly named four on a three double to.

The to order the double.

Number.

We're not talking about that.

Well let's talk about the other let's let's talk about the piranha movie serials and series in general because it is a long running series.

Yeah.

So so started out much like today's film, an underwater film produced by Roger Corman.

Yeah.

The original Piranha was also an underwater film produced by Roger Corman, kind of a in the in the aftermath of Jaws, there was a lot of, well, what other creatures can we stick under the water.

And scare an elephant?

Because that was Roger Corman's way.

What's popular right now?

How can we a movie that's going to sort of pick up on that, that audience that's already interested in that sort of film and make our own film that we can make, you know, not as much as Jaws, but we'll make money on it.

All right.

So we had Piranha directed by the great Joe Dante.

Yes.

One of his earlier films.

And again, something Roger Corman was famous for was finding these young directors of their up and coming and kind of giving them their first.

Breaks and written by the incredible John Sayles, who, if you've not watched John Sayles films, make sure you do such a favor and go find those.

Even if we're talking about something like Alligator, which is, you know, seems like a crazy film or another Jaws kind of rip off of great film.

But also, you know, his his more serious works like eight men now and things like that that came along later.

So yeah, that that was the original Piranha, right?

So that film was successful.

They made a sequel, Piranha to the Spawning.

Yes.

And that is the first film directed by James Cameron and Academy Award winning director and yeah, cinematic legend, who is still making 947 Avatar films as we speak.

That's right.

Yeah.

So and again, still making underwater films, apparently, too.

So there seems to be something in the blood there.

In the blood.

But yeah, we had these two films many, many years later.

There was the decision that there were going to, you know, look back at those films with some fondness and do a remake of the original Piranha.

A more comical remake of.

Right and Do it in 3D and kind of play up the campy factor of it all and brought in, you know, over the years a number of well-known actors to play, you know, small parts in these films and just really kind of have fun with that.

There's a sequence in Piranha 3D with Richard Dreyfus, the star of Jobs, parodying the parodying his role in Jaws.

And in fact, the character is named Matt Hooper.

Whom I.

Hope can be seen as well.

Remember, we don't know.

So so be.

Once again, we had a successful film that really played up on the 3D, played up on some of the prurient opportunities that 3D allows for.

A good word.

For it.

And so the sequel naturally became Piranha three Double.

D What does that stand for?

You don't need to.

When you're older, all.

That vast tracts of land.

Yes.

Let's talk about that.

Huge tracts.

Land Yeah, but but so this this particular fish was made for that film.

This was a hero piece.

This was a piece that was made to be seen up close on screen.

So at some point in the film, you are seeing this particular piece very up close on camera.

So it's made with extra detail and over time it's had some wear and tear.

So, you know, you've got to kind of excuse that it's got some pieces falling apart, but it still has a lot of the mechanisms attached to it.

Again, something they'd use air bladders to control that attach airport or hydraulic hoses.

Yeah, could be double detail.

Double detail.

We'll talk about it later.

I think you're just you're not ready for that talking.

All right.

And you're saying go ahead.

Yes.

But, you know, again, the directors that went on to do these these later remakes and sequels have had great success or two now.

ALEXANDER Yeah, And I believe Father Alvarez, I remember this one.

Yeah.

And, you know, for some reason they only made two more of those.

So maybe in another 20 or 30 years we're going to get another piranha.

Yeah.

And it'll probably be all CGI piranhas at that point though, so maybe not.

Maybe we'll go back to the.

I think the balance of CG and practical effects is finally starting to come into its own.

You know, we after after well, we're not going to talk about George, our banks.

We're just not going to talk about it.

Instead, let's get back to our film here on Nightmare Theatre.

I'm to go look up what double D means.

It was going to work.

Well, he ought to be here a few days, senor.

Well, Carlos, we're afraid you weren't going to get him some.

Really?

Nevertheless, if he said that, Congressman Mendez may have to complete a mission.

That was everything on the mainland.

Pretty good.

Thank you.

It's fine.

Thanks for the quick delivery, Carlos.

I'm hungry.

Let's sleep.

Good idea.

A bit of Charles Darwin.

Thanks, but I must complete my other assignment.

This is for you.

thank you, Carl.

Adios!

Adios.

those?

Very bad habits Why can't I think things like that.

Julie is fine.

I hope.

Yes, Except for that obsession she has about a sea monster.

Well, I certainly give her credit.

She's really persistent cookies from home.

Worse, conclusive evidence that Julie's sea monster .

it seems she went prowling in the cold with a grappling hook smack down to the mysterious mass, and a fierce struggle ensued.

Well, after the Titanic struggle was over, she managed to salvage a grappling hook here.

Thanks to the end of it were a bit of the mysterious monster.

You know, it's a pretty good sized fish drain of those coves.

My guess is she snagged on to an irate stingray.

Doesn't look like the flesh of a stingray or any other fish I've ever seen.

Here, Take a look.

Very strange.

Very strange.

I've got an idea.

Let's see what some of us can meet.

We'll do that.

This stuff.

Why?

It's disintegrating.

Intracellular absorption, why it's assimilating the meat, organic life of some sort.

But.

But what?

It could be an amoeba.

But I've only seen it in the most minute size that could cause it to grow out of proportion.

This way.

It could be one of many things some freak accident dietary supplement.

It even could be caused by the radiation from the bikini explosion.

It could absorb a man or a woman.

I can't all.

I'm the devil.

Let's go.

The divorce.

Read out of it We're going full speed now.

Hello and welcome back.

So, Sapa, what do you think of the movie so far?

Do you like the monster?

I think that monster is pretty scary.

Are all sea monsters like this?

Are they always scary?

I guess they can be to some people.

I mean, I'm not afraid of them.

Some of them are not that bad.

You mean there are good ones?

Oh, yeah.

They're sweet mama ooze and big daddy ooze.

And in fact, the whole ooze family were pretty good sea monsters.

You knew a whole family of sea monsters.

Oh, yeah.

Big Daddy shoes.

And I had a charter fishing boat business back in the day.

We made a lot of money.

Scared a lot of people.

Really?

Of course not, Sapo.

Good gravy.

Sea monsters don't exist.

Big Daddy Ooze was a character in Sigmund and the Sea Monster.

Oh, I could not watch that show, which scared the heck out of me.

Sigmund Scared.

You know, I was scared of that creepy, red headed kid.

I'm with you there.

Are you sure sea monsters ain't real?

Box of positive sea suppo sea monsters can be looked at as symbols that represent the fear of the unknown.

Fear of the unknown.

Whether you call it the Leviathan, like in the Bible or the Kraken in mythology, the Lusk of Caribbean folklore, Johnny Whitaker's hairdo, or even Cthulhu, the monster is just a symbol that represents fear and nothing more.

See, the ocean can be a scary place.

Nothing but water in all directions.

Miles of water underneath.

It's only natural to expect ancient mariners to have been scared.

So naturally they created images in their heads to describe what was lurking below them.

That Sapo is where sea come from.

So they eat real.

For the last time.

No.

Anyone who claims there's a sea monster stuck in a beach or a cove is probably just a greedy land developer to drive off other buyers so we can get the land on the cheap, like, you know, like on Scooby Doo.

Nine times out of ten, the sea monster tracks people find on the beach are just the result of a guy putting on big fake feet and stomping the night away.

So I guess I'm just brainstorming here.

I guess there will be no need for, like, a modern sea monster trapped in.

No, there would be no need at all.

But Justin just got curious.

Let's just brainstorm here.

What if someone invented some kind of non spring loaded, non-lethal trap that was guaranteed to catch whatever sea monster you had bedeviling your waterfront?

Do you think that would sell?

No.

And I see what you're trying to do here.

We are not marketing some kind of sea monster trap.

Only idiots believe in sea monsters.

Okay.

Okay.

I just thought there might be money in sea.

Well, if you own a resort, something and people think there's a monster in your lake or one around your beachfront hotel, then yeah, people will show up to get a look at the monster.

Yeah, exactly.

Oh, here we go.

Oh, no.

And that's why we.

Are very.

Proud to present Van Doren as an official monster hoax Kit.

Mittens, just.

Just to let you know, you have my permission to tear his arms off and stuff them in his mouth in order to shut them up.

What are your kit today?

And you will get you get two pair of giant monster feet.

Yes, the Monster feet shoes come in both three and four toed versions Simply strap them on and parade up and down the beach.

Rubes and slack jawed gawkers like you will think we'll see tracks and think a monster walk past their cabin in the middle of the night.

They will stay an extra week just to catch a glimpse of the sea monster.

You'll also get some matted monster to drop all over the place.

Where are you going to get all this hair?

I got it from Mittens.

You'll also get some bones to scatter around so folks will think a monster climbed out of the scene of the dead of night and eat a goat or something.

In your kit also includes a series of blurry photographs for you to hang up in your bait shop or your hotel lobby.

You could point to the blurry photo and say, Yes, sir, that's the only known photo of insert your monster's name, right?

No, no, no.

Listen, you just stop.

We shouldn't be.

We we can't do this.

We can't encourage hotels and resorts to lie in order to drum up business a bonus.

Remember, we own pieces of several chanties and cottages up in the Pacific Northwest and on the East Coast.

Tourist season is coming up.

It might be good for business.

Hmm.

Yeah.

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Folks, let's get back to the thrilling conclusion of Monster from the ocean floor here on Nightmare Theatre.

He's the boat.

I'm going down here.

no.

Not even.

The waters are too dangerous.

I. I cannot do it.

Do what our legends say.

If the third one is sacrificed, the monster will leave in peace.

But that's ridiculous.

You don't believe a thing like that.

Fear.

It sure can do many things if you let the air out of the oxygen container any day.

Even when I do it, I. I know it will not work, but.

But I must do something.

forgive me.

If I can't, I would not harm you.

It's all right if you'll help me now, Tommy, get the Southern water She's coming to Darling, You all right?

Well, I guess we'd better get under way.

But you were right all the time.

I like that.

I'm sorry.

It's all right.

That's.

Doesn't it?

Well, folks, that's the end of the movie.

We made it.

All the mysteries have been solved and all the questions have been answered.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Boss, you never told me who y or Dong played.

No, I didn't.

I was waiting for you to guess.

Have you given.

Up?

Yes, I have.

He played the town drunk and wide eyed lunatic.

Pablo.

I never would have guessed that.

And I should have, because Pablo looks exactly like my sister Lupita.

It is uncanny.

Yikes.

At any rate, I guess all the questions have been answered and we can close the book on.

No, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Who did this Robert Kaufman guy.

Player.

You said he was in the movie, too.

Yes, I did.

Roger Corman played Tommy who?

I don't remember.

Anyone named Tommy was Tommy.

The name of the monster was Monster Winning Tommy.

Tommy was the guy who helped out on the boat near the end of the movie.

Corman probably figured if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.

That was an interesting movie.

I liked all that underwater stuff and that bit with the shark.

Oh boy.

Sharks are neat.

I guess it was.

I mean, sharks are neat.

I'm thinking they get a few of getting a few for the boat down there.

You know where you fell in earlier just in case, you know, you know, in case you fall in.

Oh, there is absolutely no chance that.

There's always a chance you could get shoved in some some roughnecks might break in and tie you up and roll you up in a sheet and toss in while you sleep.

Who knows.

Say, by the way, what movie do you have on tap for next week?

We have this boss.

no one will ever love you more than I do.

Can a man step away from his past into a future free from fear, almost at that past return making of every living moment in time, tortured, tormented, Tormented, holding you spellbound for the she-ghost of haunted island.

Their dreams of desire overshadowed by nightmares Can a dead love's lust destroy a man?

Or can a man defy the she-ghost of haunted island You belong to me, Tom.

you belong to a ghost Tom Stewart killed me!

Tom Stewart killed me!

Oh, my goodness.

Sapo.

Those alligators still out there in that boat?

I think so, boss.

Hopefully they've calmed down by now because they were mad.

Mittens, grab him and toss him in the moat, folks.

That's all for tonight.

Mittens and I will be back next week.

And Sapo will be if he can beat that gator.

My money's on the gator in case you like to place bets.

So until next time, may all your dreams be nightmares.