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Tim Smyth	the crater lake monster	Lead	[-]
Nov 5 08 9:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hey everyone, A few of us mentioned this movie on another thread. I looked to see if this movie had it's own folder and could not find one. So hopefully this is not a duplicate. I just think that this one deserves it's own place on the boards, to go with it's own place in cinematic history. It also has a cool stop motion Plesiosaur in it. Just wanted to know if there are any more fans out there. Tim Tim Last Edited By: Tim Smyth Nov 5 08 9:06 PM. Edited 2 times.
Rakshasa		#1	[-]
Nov 5 08 9:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I used to own this on VHS. I think I sold it for drug money. Kidding. I loved the monster stuff, but I found the rest of it tough to sit through. The sub-plot about the sheriff chasing the killer endlessly around the lake put me to sleep. Links To All The Classic Monster Stills I've Posted: http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/30758
Zombie Dad		#2	[-]
Nov 5 08 9:53 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This is a bad movie favorite in the Zombie household. Hardly a year goes by without at least one showing. ZD Zombie Dad's Online Art Store www.zazzle.com/zombiedad
timothymayer		#3	[-]
Nov 5 08 11:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I actually tried to see this one in a theater. It was playing at the old Southern Hotel Theater in Columbus, OH, in the late 70's. "It's alive!" Z7 Headquarters
M F Berry		#4	[-]
Nov 5 08 11:15 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I love the stop-motion work in The Crater Lake Monster, but otherwise it struggles. The actors who play the sheriff and the doctor give off a nice 50s B-movie stiff-acting vibe, but oh, man ... Mitch 'n Arnie* ... please make them go away! Back to the stop-motion, it's no wonder that it's good -- it was done principally by Dave Allen, with some shots animated by Randy Cook, Phil Tippett, and Jim Danforth. What a line-up! (* For the uninitiated, Mitch and Arnie are the redneck Laurel and Hardy that provide "comedy relief" more hives-inducing that that of Paul Gilbert in Women of the Prehistoric Planet!) "They'll throw us s' far back in the jug they'll have to shoot our breakfast to us with a cannon!"
Tim Smyth		#5	[-]
Nov 6 08 12:38 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Rakshasa, you sold it for drug money? I bet you didn't get much. Zombie Dad, same here, maybe even twice a year. Always embarassing when someone calls in the middle and they discover what I am watching. timothymayer, Too bad you missed it, I wish that I could have seen it at the theatre, but I am not sure it even played in the Boston area. M F Berry, I love the stop motion as well, and that is the best part of the movie, I wish it had more. I wish dino scenes were more thought out like O'Bie's or Ray's stuff. And Mitch and Arnie............ what more can you say, and he music is.... interesting. Bill Stromberg who directed the movie also made a short film, A Sound of Thunder, based on the Ray Bradbury short story, with dinosaurs by Phil Tippet. Phil also sculpted the body of the Crater Lake Monster, and David Allen sculpted the head, for anyone who is interested. Tim Tim
Rakshasa		#6	[-]
Nov 6 08 7:14 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tim Smyth wrote: Rakshasa, you sold it for drug money? I bet you didn't get much. Bill Stromberg who directed the movie also made a short film, A Sound of Thunder, based on the Ray Bradbury short story, with dinosaurs by Phil Tippet. Phil also sculpted the body of the Crater Lake Monster, and David Allen sculpted the head, for anyone who is interested. Ha! You're right Tim, I bought the VHS new in the early 90's for $7.99, so the resale value was very low. Yes, I'm interested! I didn't know there was a short film of A Sound Of Thunder with a dinosaurs by Tippet. What year was this and is it available? That's one of my favorite Bradbury stories! Links To All The Classic Monster Stills I've Posted: http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/30758
Tim Smyth		#7	[-]
Nov 6 08 12:12 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Rakshasa, Unfortunately the film is not available at this time. It was shot silent on 16mm. The voices and sounds were added later. Forry I believe did supply a voice to one of the actors who could not be there for the sound recording. Ray Bradbury is said to have been pleased by the effort.That is all I remeber for right now. There is an article on this in Famous Monsters. I do not know which issue, and I am 3000 miles away from my collection, but I will be willingto bet that it is in issues between the years 1975-1976. I am going to do more research on this film, and I will post my findings here. Tim Tim
killer meteor		#8	[-]
Nov 6 08 2:00 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Crater Lake was funded with someone's inheritance money right?
luisj40		#9	[-]
Nov 6 08 2:35 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Zombie Dad wrote: This is a bad movie favorite in the Zombie household. Hardly a year goes by without at least one showing. ZD You have a brave household I could only take watching this every 10 or so years. Luis
MYST0		#10	[-]
Nov 7 08 1:19 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I was at Crater Lake National Park in the early '80s and this was playing in a drive-in just outside of the park somewhere. I don't know why I had to relate that, but I thought it was relevant when I started typing. I have always liked this dopey film..
gfanikf		#11	[-]
Nov 7 08 2:47 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	killer meteor wrote: Crater Lake was funded with someone's inheritance money right? I thought that was Sleepaway Camp? HK AND CULT FILM NEWS Your source for all the latest Hong Kong and Cult Films DVD News and Reviews! I actually said he was da bomb but my main man Dennis didn't peep me right.- Tom "Big Daddy" Weaver.
APE		#12	[-]
Nov 7 08 6:30 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I remember seeing a movie about a plesiosaur late at night, many years ago. Is this the one where a comet splashes into the lake early into the film?
ejazzyjeff		#13	[-]
Nov 7 08 8:45 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I remember seeing this movie when it came out. Don't remember most of the plot, but I do remember seeing it with my friend and there was this girl that went to school with us was there, she didn't want to see the movie by herself so she joined us. She sat between us and each time something scary happened she would grab us or bury her head on your shoulder. I was 13 years old and probably reaching puberty, so I was kind of distracted. But I do remember the fisherman's head floating in the water and the "Laurel and Hardy" actors, and I think one dies.
Rakshasa		#14	[-]
Nov 7 08 9:09 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	APE wrote: I remember seeing a movie about a plesiosaur late at night, many years ago. Is this the one where a comet splashes into the lake early into the film? Well let's see, there are countless dozens of movies about plesiosaurs, so I'll have to think about this a while.... That's the one, APE! Links To All The Classic Monster Stills I've Posted: http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/30758
rvoyttbots		#15	[-]
Nov 8 08 8:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The blade of the tractor only seems to lift 6 inches off the ground yet the monster manages to stick its head under the thing. Saw this in a theater when first released.
CarcharodonKong		#16	[-]
Nov 18 08 2:27 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tim Smyth wrote: Hey everyone, A few of us mentioned this movie on another thread. I looked to see if this movie had it's own folder and could not find one. So hopefully this is not a duplicate. I just think that this one deserves it's own place on the boards, to go with it's own place in cinematic history. It also has a cool stop motion Plesiosaur in it. Just wanted to know if there are any more fans out there. Tim I still have on VHS my version I taped from the t.v back in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Despite the low budget I find this film kind of enjoyable. I actually like the sheriff in it plus the two bumbling fools and it does have somewhat of an atmospheric vibe going on. Lake Placid is obviously a nod towards Crater Lake.
Bill Warren	I	#17	[-]
Nov 18 08 6:12 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Other than the title, there's no connection between this movie and the National Park in Oregon. (Which is so spectacular someone should make SOME kind of monster movie associated with it.)
CarcharodonKong		#18	[-]
Nov 19 08 2:05 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yes, the movie was actually filmed at Huntington Lake, California and not Crater Lake, Oregon.
Rakshasa		#19	[-]
May 23 11 8:45 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	THE CRATER LAKE MONSTER is being added as a RIFFTRAX VOD (video on demand) this Wednesday, May 25th, 2011, which means you can download the movie with the MST3K-esque riff. In the past, these VOD have been released as DVDs as well, as was the case with VOODOO MAN, which came with a non-riffed version of the film. http://www.rifftrax.com/ Uploaded with ImageShack.us Links To All The Classic Monster Stills I've Posted: http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/30758
bobzilla		#20	[-]
May 24 11 7:50 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	If you want just the monster bits, it looks like someone posted them on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzFlYJIObYw Very smooth animation. Love the inside of the mouth. Never saw the whole movie.

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