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Beast from Haunted Cave
Beast from Haunted Cave is a 1959 horror heist film directed by Monte Hellman and starring Michael Forest, Frank Wolff and Richard Sinatra. It was produced by Gene Corman, Roger Corman's brother. Filmed in South Dakota at the same time as Ski Troop Attack, it tells the story of bank robbers fleeing in the snow who run afoul of a giant spider-like monster in a cave that feeds on humans. The film was released on June 10, 1959 in a double feature with The Wasp Woman (1959).
The movie began an association between Roger Corman and Monte Hellman that lasted for fifteen years. Hellman would work on several of Corman's films and he would finance several movies that Hellman would direct.
A group of criminals, led by ruthless Alexander Ward, hatch a plan to steal gold bars from a bank vault in Deadwood, South Dakota. Ward sends one of his henchmen, Marty Jones, to plant a time bomb in a nearby gold mine. The detonation will occur the next morning and act as a diversion for their heist. Although Marty, accompanied by local barmaid Natalie, succeeds in setting the device, he encounters a huge, hairy beast. It captures Natalie, but Marty escapes. It is later revealed that the beast survives off of the blood of his captives, who eventually experience a slow death. Natalie is only the latest of its many victims.
The next morning, the explosive goes off as planned, and Alex and his gang succeed in stealing gold bars from the bank's vault. Then, led by a local guide named Gil Jackson, they make the trek to a remote cabin, where they hope to be picked up by a plane bound for Canada. Gil is initially unaware of their plans, but he becomes suspicious when he hears reports of the robbery on the radio and then discovers his clients are toting handguns. They reach the cabin without incident but, once there, a violent snowstorm delays the plane's arrival. Alex's "secretary" Gypsy is taken with the young Gil and tells him that Alex plans to kill him once the plane arrives. Thus, Gil and Gypsy split for town.
Marty carries unpleasant memories of the beast. He perpetually senses someone (or something) is watching him. Thus when he reports encountering the beast again, his companions suspect he's becoming delusional. Eventually, however, they are convinced of the beast's existence when they see it attack Alexander's other henchman, Byron. Despite their fear of further attacks, the gang attempt to track down Gil and Gypsy before they reach town. But with the snowstorm approaching, they head for a nearby cave. The weather also forces Gil and Gypsy to take shelter in the same cave. That shelter turns out to be the lair of the beast. In the final struggle, the beast kills the remaining gang members; but before dying, Marty shoots it with a flare gun. Gil and Gypsy are left to watch as the monster burns to death.
"I first met Roger through my wife, Barboura Morris, who had acted in some of his movies. I got him to invest $1,000 in a theater company that we put together. Eventually, we were shut down, and Roger said, 'You should take this as a sign to do something else.' He hired me on the spot to direct Beast from Haunted Cave. [and] He paid me $1,000. We didn't have a contract or anything. Just a handshake. And Roger's handshake was better than most people's contracts".
In the mid-1950s, film producer and director Roger Corman, along with his brother and fellow producer Gene Corman, hired then theatre director Hellman to direct a film from a screenplay by Roger Corman regular Griffith.
According to Griffith, Corman was motived by the success of Naked Paradise. He said "Roger said "I want NAKED PARADISE using a gold mine instead of a pineapple plantation. Put it in South Dakota and add a monster." I didn't know how to add a monster to that script, so I had it all wrapped up in a cocoon in a cave just threatening to break loose all the time. I don't know how it happened That became BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE. "
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Beast from Haunted Cave
Beast from Haunted Cave is a 1959 horror heist film directed by Monte Hellman and starring Michael Forest, Frank Wolff and Richard Sinatra. It was produced by Gene Corman, Roger Corman's brother. Filmed in South Dakota at the same time as Ski Troop Attack, it tells the story of bank robbers fleeing in the snow who run afoul of a giant spider-like monster in a cave that feeds on humans. The film was released on June 10, 1959 in a double feature with The Wasp Woman (1959).
The movie began an association between Roger Corman and Monte Hellman that lasted for fifteen years. Hellman would work on several of Corman's films and he would finance several movies that Hellman would direct.
A group of criminals, led by ruthless Alexander Ward, hatch a plan to steal gold bars from a bank vault in Deadwood, South Dakota. Ward sends one of his henchmen, Marty Jones, to plant a time bomb in a nearby gold mine. The detonation will occur the next morning and act as a diversion for their heist. Although Marty, accompanied by local barmaid Natalie, succeeds in setting the device, he encounters a huge, hairy beast. It captures Natalie, but Marty escapes. It is later revealed that the beast survives off of the blood of his captives, who eventually experience a slow death. Natalie is only the latest of its many victims.
The next morning, the explosive goes off as planned, and Alex and his gang succeed in stealing gold bars from the bank's vault. Then, led by a local guide named Gil Jackson, they make the trek to a remote cabin, where they hope to be picked up by a plane bound for Canada. Gil is initially unaware of their plans, but he becomes suspicious when he hears reports of the robbery on the radio and then discovers his clients are toting handguns. They reach the cabin without incident but, once there, a violent snowstorm delays the plane's arrival. Alex's "secretary" Gypsy is taken with the young Gil and tells him that Alex plans to kill him once the plane arrives. Thus, Gil and Gypsy split for town.
Marty carries unpleasant memories of the beast. He perpetually senses someone (or something) is watching him. Thus when he reports encountering the beast again, his companions suspect he's becoming delusional. Eventually, however, they are convinced of the beast's existence when they see it attack Alexander's other henchman, Byron. Despite their fear of further attacks, the gang attempt to track down Gil and Gypsy before they reach town. But with the snowstorm approaching, they head for a nearby cave. The weather also forces Gil and Gypsy to take shelter in the same cave. That shelter turns out to be the lair of the beast. In the final struggle, the beast kills the remaining gang members; but before dying, Marty shoots it with a flare gun. Gil and Gypsy are left to watch as the monster burns to death.
"I first met Roger through my wife, Barboura Morris, who had acted in some of his movies. I got him to invest $1,000 in a theater company that we put together. Eventually, we were shut down, and Roger said, 'You should take this as a sign to do something else.' He hired me on the spot to direct Beast from Haunted Cave. [and] He paid me $1,000. We didn't have a contract or anything. Just a handshake. And Roger's handshake was better than most people's contracts".
In the mid-1950s, film producer and director Roger Corman, along with his brother and fellow producer Gene Corman, hired then theatre director Hellman to direct a film from a screenplay by Roger Corman regular Griffith.
According to Griffith, Corman was motived by the success of Naked Paradise. He said "Roger said "I want NAKED PARADISE using a gold mine instead of a pineapple plantation. Put it in South Dakota and add a monster." I didn't know how to add a monster to that script, so I had it all wrapped up in a cocoon in a cave just threatening to break loose all the time. I don't know how it happened That became BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE. "