Up from the Depths
“Your vacation is about to end!!!”
1979•R•1h 25m•3.7•Released
Horror
The staff and vacationers at a first-class resort on the island of Maui are beginning to mysteriously disappear. A biologist believes that an underwater earthquake has caused a giant and very hungry dormant prehistoric fish to be released from its slumber. The fish voraciously helps itself to a tourist buffet. Now it is open season for the local fishermen to find and kill the creature.
Director
Charles B. Griffith
Writer
Alfred M. Sweeney, Anne Dyer
Languages
English
Studio
New World Pictures
Cast
Sam Bottoms
Greg Oliver
Susanne Reed
Rachel McNamara
Virgil Frye
Earl Sullivan
Kedric Wolfe
Oscar Forbes
Charles Howerton
Dr. David Whiting
Denise Hayes
Iris Lee
Chuck Doherty
Ed Bennett
Helen McNeely
Louellen Bennett
Ken Metcalfe
Mr. Holland
Randy Taylor
Jimmy
Dave D'Martyn
Tourist #1
Clem Persons
Maintenance Man (as Clem Parsons)
Peter Cooper
Nieberg
Katherine Scholy
Darleen
Ken Petruic
Harry
Production
Company
New World Pictures
Producer
Cirio H. Santiago
Producer
Roger Corman
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