ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Idiot-Deluxe Fellow film-buff's, let me provide you with a sampling of some of the dialog you can expect to hear, just to give you an idea of what your delving into. "How long's he been out of oxygen? - Only a few minutes. - I'll get him some coffee."Veteran hack film-maker Jerry Warren brings us.......The Incredible Petrified World.......though don't be fooled by the title, because there's absolutely NOTHING "incredible" about it, not even close. Never does it build up (let alone sustain) any real action, suspense, excitement or even a modicum of interest - just pure boredom all the way through. The trials and tribulations one would expect to experience when trapped inside a cavernous underwater cave, lifelessly limps to the big screen! With all the excitement of (insert your phrase here).Jerry-boy must have cranked this one out in a week or less, because it looks and sounds painfully cheap and it's so antiquated it creaks, but above all else, is it's over-powering boredom, like few other movies can do. Which is entirely consistent with the two other "Jerry Flicks" I've seen over the years (The Wild, Wild World of Bat-Woman and Frankenstein Island). And with "The Incredible Petrified World" once again I find myself watching (for the LAST time) yet another pale and lifeless Jerry Warren.......action movie - fasten your seat-belt's everyone, the excitement will be historically epic.Here's the general set of events: We start with an angry sea for the opening titles, followed by 4 minutes of underwater photography - fish and octopus's' mostly, which turns out to be part of a lecture on marine biology and diving bells, wasting no time were then off to a ship that has a diving bell and down they ( 2 guys 2 gals) go, the cable breaks, their sh** out of luck, or so they think, dawning SCUBA-gear they escape the bell and swim into a cave that somehow is filled with air instead of water, it's here where the movie is at its most boring and pointless, just 4 people farting around in a cave for the last 35 to 40 minutes of the movie. Expect to suffer through several long and dull scenes of people constantly talking about the lamest things, these horrendously tedious scenes equal up to absolutely nothing, however, they just might lull you to sleep - pity their audience. At the half-way point, this movie features one of the lamest cave-dwelling villains you'll ever see, complete with a flagrantly fake-looking beard, his very existence there is completely ludicrous. Who claim's he got there "the same way you did" - not likely, for such a misplaced simpleton. After a cave-in or two all 4 luckily escape the cave and scuba to another diving bell (John Caradine and his top-side team were looking for them) and live happily ever after. Pure dreck - at least this movie is fairly short, barely an hour. One gets the notion that they needed: 1 - a better director, 2 - a completely different cast, 3 - at least twice the budget, THEN this limp, so-called adventure film might have been something worth watching. My DVD copy of The Incredible Petrified World is part of a cheap collection called "The Best of the Worst". What does that tell you. The sound is bassy and muffled and the picture was equally hideous, with an overall very poorly preserved gray-scale and there's lots of scratches and speckling, plus the picture and sound "jumps" at least twice a minute. This cheap Jerry-Flick is simply a thing of pure wretchedness.Ultimately just a dismal, dismal, dismal excuse of an adventure film, by one of cinema's all-time least talented directors, Jerry Warren. *People stay away from this man's movies* Re-organizing your sock draw will provide you with more entertainment. If you're ever unfortunate enough to encounter this movie, alcohol would certainly improve the situation or at least help you get through it. I bet watching a static-filled, 12th generation VHS copy, dubbed in Portuguese, episode of My Little Pony would probably be less painful and less boring. Not that I've ever watched such a thing. No Bronie's here, thank you very much.

Rainey Dawn Mildly entertaining film. This is not a horror film so I don't know why this one has been added to the "Legends of Horror 50 Movie Pack". I guess the pack title does imply what the title says "Legends of Horror" - and John Carradine is famous for playing and starring in horror films so I guess the it might be appropriate this film is included in the pack. Good to have another Carradine film in my collection.The film is OK - it does have entertainment value in a way. The ship lost one of it's bells and four divers enter into another bell to retrieve the lost bell of course their bell also breaks leaving them stranded in the waters. They end up somehow in an underground volcano where they meet a man who claims to have lived there for 14 years in the caves of the volcano. Carradine and others are working on a rescue topside but things look grim but, as luck would have it, the volcano erupts and sets the four free of the volcano while the old man that's been there 14 years dies. The four people are now rescued - the end.It's not a film I would recommend but it's an OK film - nothing special.4/10

kai ringler this wasn't a bad movie at all, although I wouldn't have put it in the horror packaging as Wal Mart did. starring John Carradine who didn't have a lot of screen times.. this movie is about a diving bell that breaks loose from the chains, and falls to the bottom of the sea, but as luck would have it ,, it got stuck on a shelf of some sorts, in a deep dark dank cave with a volcano not to far from it,, 2 men and 2 women must fight to stay alive and find a way out,, an old man shows up about half way thru the picture claiming to have been living there now for 14 years,, he takes a liking to one of the women, just as the action is starting to heat up with a volcano exploding,, interesting movie,, I love the opening credits where all you see is the monstrous waves from the ocean,, but I didn't care for the narration at the beginning of the film.

sddavis63 To be kind, I would give writer John Steiner and director Jerry Warren credit for playing this very "straight." Considering that it was made in the 1950's, this movie was tailor made for the use of undersea monsters and all sorts of creepy life forms. There really weren't any - aside from the man living in the underground caves, who wasn't a monster but was just an unfortunate soul who got trapped there 14 years earlier. So, whatever else you might say about this, it doesn't fall into the "hokey" category that so many B-grade (or worse) 50's films fall into. I can respect the effort to take the story seriously. It revolves around 4 people who, because of a diving bell accident, become trapped in dry caverns deep under the ocean with no apparent way of escape. But, having watched it, as much as I give credit to the effort to take this seriously, maybe a little bit of "hoke" would have helped!The end result was that nothing - absolutely nothing - especially interesting happened in this until the last 5 minutes or so. Otherwise, you get some dreary narration to open, some discussion of the diving bell experiment, a depiction of the accident, and then a lot of shots of people wandering through caves and periodically going back into the water. (YAWN!!!!) It really hardly seemed worth the effort. The only member of the cast who I recognized was John Carradine. Otherwise you had a cast made up either of unknowns who barely acted, or of those (like Robert Clarke or Phyllis Coates) who made acting careers out of guest shots on various TV shows but never really reached any heights. I honestly wouldn't recommend wasting your time with this. It gets a couple of points for the effort to take the story seriously, but in return it loses a lot of points for being just so plain dull! (3/10)