Varan The Unbelievable (1962)

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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. Also Known As: The Monster Varan Title: Varan The Unbelievable Release Date: December 07, 1962 Runtime: 70 mins Genre: Horror All Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi Languages: English Country: USA Colors: Black and White Sound: Mono IMDB Rating: 5.2 Brimstone Pit Rating: 6.2 - (Rate This Horror Movie) Category: Horror Movies Starting With V MPAA Rating: Unrated Director(s): Jerry A. Baerwitz Ishiro Honda Cast: Myron Healey ...Cmdr. James Bradley Tsuruko Kobayashi ...Anna Clifford Kawada ...Capt,. Kishi Derick Shimatsu ...Matsu, the boy Kozo Nomura ...Paul Isoh Ayumi Sonoda ...Shidori Isoh Fumito Matsuo ...Paul's Friend Hiroshi Hisasume ...Pvt. Seki yoneo Iguchi ...Radio Operator Hideo Inamura ...Doomed Soldier Roy K. Ogata ...Extra George Sasaki ...Extra Michael Sung ...Extra yoshio Tsuchiya ...Soldier Akio Kusama ...Soldier yoshifumi Tajima ...Captain Koreya Senda ...Observer Akihiko Hirata ...Observer Minosuke yamada ...Secretary of Defense Akira Sera ...Worshipper Hisaya Ito ...Surveyor Nadao Kirino ...Surveyor Noriko Honma ...Screaming Woman (as Fumiko Honma) Katsumi Tezuka ...Varan (archive footage) Remaining Cast: Producer(s): Jerry A. Baerwitz Writer(s): Sid Harris Ken Kuronuma Shinichi Sekizawa Trailer(s): Varan The Unbelievable Horror Film Trailer 1 Varan The Unbelievable Horror Film Trailer 2 Movie Trivia: Although most of Akira Ifukube's score is replaced in the American version, if you listen closely enough you can her a version of what would become the familiar "March of the Monsters" theme from many of the mid-sixties Godzilla films. This was originally supposed to be a co-production between A.B.C. and Toho. However, A.B.C. backed out just before production began. IMDB Links: » User Comments at imdb.com » More information at imdb.com Keywords: Lake, Monster, Monster Terrorizes City, Kaiju, Giant Monster  ...[more] Keywords All: Loss Of Brother, Death Of Title Character, Independent Film Seen it? Rate it Currently 6.19/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rating: 6.2 out of 10.0 - 52 votes cast total buy movie on dvd del.icio.us  |  digg  |  reddit Enter your zipcode for movie listings: » BACK TO HORROR MOVIES LIST