Varan the Unbelievable (1962) [N/A]
Release Date:
December 7, 1962
Original Title:
Varan the Unbelievable
Alternate Titles:
Varan el increible
Varan the Unbelievable
Varan, le monstre géant
Genres:
Horror | Science Fiction
Production Companies:
Cory Film Corporation
Crown International Pictures
Dallas Production Inc.
TOHO
Production Countries:
Japan | United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 70
From a world below, it came to terrorize - to destroy - to revenge!
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.