GamerTab
That was an excellent one.
Develiker
terrible... so disappointed.
Ketrivie
It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
Jerrie
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Eric Stevenson
I'm amazed at how prolific Roger Corman was. The only good thing about this was some of the music. The rest of the film seemed too long, even at its short running title. It has an even longer title than "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies??!!"! What makes this underwhelming is how there's a massive amount of padding in this. The title sea serpent only has a minute or two of screen time in total! You're telling me that one of the longest movie titles in history doesn't even feature the title character that much at all?! "Dr. Strangelove" did the same thing but it was actually entertaining.The actual voyage is but a fraction of the full film. At the end, the main characters summon the Gods to help them who kill some enemies. Then what next? The Gods just ignore them and let everything unfold as it should. Why'd they help them that time? Were some of them unbelievers? The characters are obnoxious and whiny. On top of all that, there are very ugly shades of blue, although that might have just been the MST3K version. Either way, this is a huge letdown if only because of its title. *
michaeldukey2000
When you consider that this was the 9th film that Corman produced and directed for AIP in 1957 it's a miracle he didn't have a heart attack on the set and have it turn out as entertaining and semi coherent as it is.Ncholson and Arkoff who were marketing masters basically took the hype from the anticipation of post production Kirk Douglas epic The Vikings and threw in some babes and a monster and beat the big studio release to the punch by almost four months.It's 0bviously Corman's biggest production until that date with extras and horses and matte paintings and you can tell his energy is mainly concerned with just getting it done on time rather than adding his signature quirkiness that you would find in Attack Of The Crab Monsters,Day The World Ended or Bucket Of Blood. COmpared to it's co-feature The Amazing She Monster the proceeding are intricate and lavish.Like most low budget drive-in flicks from AIP you just go with the flow and enjoy the goofs and the good looking dames. ANything else and your just fooling yourself into thinking you're a real film critic. ;-)
mlraymond
Anyone looking for sheer fun with a movie should enjoy this Corman classic. Some of the most unconvincing Viking women ever seen set out on a dangerous voyage to rescue their lost men. Blonde Hollywood starlets like June Kenney and Abby Dalton do their best to portray fierce Viking women. They look great, especially Betsy Jones-Moreland as a stunningly sexy beauty. The always reliable Susan Cabot slinks around amongst the blonde maidens with her unique brand of sexy villainy. She gets to sneer and smirk and raise her eyebrows a lot, and manages to seduce just about any man she meets, with her come-hither eyes and menacing purr. She steals the picture from all the " good girls". In the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 version, one of the robots remarks that : "You can tell she's the bad one, 'cause she's got black hair!"Richard Devon is fairly impressive as the warrior king, though his palace suggests a high school cafeteria with a few strategic wall hangings for atmosphere. Jay Sayer, who was a total creep as one of the gang members in Corman's Teenage Doll, plays another total creep here, as the obnoxious son of the king. Jonathan Haze gets to display plenty of virile vigor, as he continually leaps on the bad guys ,and wrestles everyone in sight. The title sea serpent isn't really that bad, considering the extremely low budget. Overall, this movie is quite enjoyable, if you like Fifties drive-in flicks and Corman movies. The Viking women are a really foxy bunch of gals, too!
JohnHowardReid
Despite a meager $65,000 budget, and thanks to Corman's skill in making a little money go a long way, the film looks far more expensive than its actual cost. True, despite his co-star status in the movie's title, the serpent figures very little in the film's action, most of the heavy's duties being taken over by the fascinatingly treacherous Richard Devon and the equally charming Susan Cabot (the Wasp Woman herself). Lithe Abby Dalton plays the Viking leader with appropriate girlish gusto, while twisted but surprisingly ungrateful Jay Sayer has his menacing moments as a petulant prince. The story is absolute nonsense from first to last, but Corman keeps the action moving at such a commendably fast clip from go to whoa, a total lack of conviction doesn't really amount to a factor that will upset rabid American-International fans.
