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Varan the Unbelievable

Varan the Unbelievable

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 7, 1962

Runtime

1h 10m

Genres

Horror, Science Fiction

User Score

42%

Original Title

Varan the Unbelievable

Production Companies

Cory Film Corporation, Dallas Production Inc., Crown International Pictures, TOHO

Director

Jerry A. Baerwitz

Description

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.