A futuristic underwater sea-lab is having problems with a UFO that's parked between them and a nearby deep ocean trench. As they investigate, they attract the unwanted attention of a dangerous creature who puts the scientists and crew in danger.
Terror of the Deep, L'Invasione - Marte Attacca La Terra, Der Schrecken aus der Meerestiefe, L'invasione - Marte attacca Terra
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Oh boy. What it lacks in production values, excitement and talent it somewhat makes up for in charm. Destination Inner Space boldly attempts an underwater alien encounter story with just a few bare rooms, a decent latex monster suit, and lots of stock footage of underwater stuff. Take THAT, The Abyss!
The most perplexing dramatic element is the escalating conflict between two military guys, Maddox and Wayne. Maddox has this chip on his shoulder about an old mission where he continuously blames Wayne for letting the crew drown. It’s later revealed and admitted by Maddox that it was Maddox’ fault. I MEAN WHY EVEN BRING IT UP, GUY.
Ambitious but pretty boring and lacking anything you’d remember about it.
A futuristic sealab runs across a strange vessel, and it's only a matter of time before its alien fishman occupant is terrorizing the locals. Outside of our creature attacks, the bulk of the film deals with a new commander taking charge of the station (Scott Brady) who has a sordid history with head diver (Mike Road), and the two posturing in between romancing Sheree North and Wende Wagner respectively. Gary Merrill rounds out our principles as a researcher who puts scientific pursuits ahead of the crew's safety.
One of two horror features directed by academy award winner Francis D. Lyon in 1966 starring Scott Brady (along with Castle of Evil), the production values are substantially better than the other 60s…
Full disclosure, I had to talk myself out of giving this a half a star rating. I had to tell myself things like "any movie from the early 60s that shoots underwater deserves at least a little credit". Plus I like that they made middle-aged, paunchy Scott Brady the lead over Mike Road. Unfortunately this probably deserves a half a star. After the twentieth SCUBA prep scene I gave up any hope of this movie attaining any merit whatsoever. Destination Inner Space is a dull slog that can't even be saved by a rubber see monster that looks like Edward G. Robinson. As of this review I am just able to conjure a full star simply because it is nice to see a young James Hong. Might edit this back down to a half star after thinking about it for a while. We'll see.
Four and a half stars for the Rifftrax.
I've got a soft spot for movies where "Dammit, we're gonna get our money's worth out of this underwater camera rental" was clearly a prevailing directorial motivation, and also movies where "Better kill these things we don't understand just to be on the safe side" is presented as a genuinely heroic philosophy. By those tokens, I should've loved this underwater Thing from Another World knock-off, but the thing is just too draggy and padded to earn my heart.
I do give it props for its endearingly goofy alien invader, who rather resembles the Creature from the Black Lagoon's cuter, dumber cousin, and for a damn-the-torpedoes musical score that plays up scenes like "guys change into wetsuits" and "guys walk into an adjoining room" as if they were the goddamned burning of Tara.
This patience-testing ripoff of The Thing from Another World was late to the dance by about 15 years, and can only compensate with a change of scenery. An important Navy guy (Scott Brady from Gremlins and Bonnie's Kids) goes to a crucifix-shaped undersea lab with his pants pulled up too high and his shirt unbuttoned too low. He's been asked to help investigate a strange object the scientists picked up on sonar, which turns out to be an alien craft. A team investigates it, finding a round chamber with a bunch of little triangular doors, which occasionally open so that a mechanism can push out a capsule encased in what looks like a triangular block of ice. The capsule they…
Commander Wayne (Scott Brady) is sent by the government to investigate an intriguing new finding by a privately funded team aboard a sealab. It's a massive ship that appears to be almost the same volume as the sealab itself. He initially figures it's just a new type of submarine, but once they board it and take a strange cylinder they find on it back to the sealab, they soon realize it's not of this world. (see poster for a clue)
To be honest, I watched this for the cast. If it had been a bunch of unknowns, I may not have bothered, but here we have good ol' Scott Brady, good ol' Sheree North, good ol' Gary Merrill, and the…
If your thing is watching pudgy middle-aged men squeeze into wetsuits that are clearly several sizes too small for them, then this movie is for you, because there's a lot of that going on here in what is basically an underwater version of The Thing from Another World..
The setting is a privately run sealab which receives a visit from a naval officer at just the moment they encounter a flying saucer. Naturally they investigate, finding the vehicle to be unmanned but with what turns out to be what can best be described as an egg, which they haul back to the lab where it hatches.
How this saucer has made it to Earth is never made clear, neither is…
Move The Thing From Another World to an underwater base rather than an arctic one, throw in some more personal conflict between the male leads, apply 3 metric tons of pomade, include plenty of unflattering ass shots of the back half of Scott Brady in wet suits, and make sure your monster suit recalls but fails to live up to the one from Creature From the Black Lagoon and you have this overly familiar creature feature. Seems to have partly inspired the spate of late 80s undersea monster flicks and would probably be more watchable if we found out more about the alien or, especially if the characters were more enjoyable to hang out with.
Low-budget monster movie is basically an underwater riff on IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE. Scott Brady, who looks uncomfortable in a wet suit, leads the cast as Wayne, a Naval commander who is summoned to an undersea base to investigate a mysterious craft. He takes crew members Hugh (Mike Road, whose voice is immediately recognizable from Hanna-Barbera cartoons like JONNY QUEST) and Sandra (the gorgeous Wende Wagner, a regular on THE GREEN HORNET) over to investigate the spaceship, where they find some small cylinders about the size of scuba tanks.
Of course the dingbats bring one back to the sealab, of course it breaks open, and of course a man-sized amphibian that walks on two legs bursts out of…
Weird combo of deep sea adventure / alien invasion… as a deep sea monster. Love the sea monster too! It’s like a bigger more hulky Creature kinda like Slithis. And for that I support this flick even though it’s not great at all. Just a little slow at times. But I’d watch it again.
In director Francis D. Lyon(CULT OF THE COBRA,THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH)'s science fiction orientated companion piece to his horror film CASTLE OF EVIL,a visiting military commander(Scott Brady[GREMLINS,BONNIE'S KIDS]) arrives at an underwater sea lab in time to aid its crew when a mysterious UFO lands near them as its unleashes an intergalactic amphibian gillman that terrorize the lab as the crew figures out how to stop its rampage. DESTINATION INNER SPACE pretty much flows like a vintage 50s monster mash as it allows Lyon and the cast to have fun with the material they're given to work it and make the most out of it as they pretty much help make it into a pretty fun film that…
Actors in a 1960’s underwater film are viciously attacked by a 1950s monster movie and must overcome rampant sexism, misguided scientists, and rubber suits in order to survive. About the most fun you could expect from this sort of thing.
