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The Haunted Sea

  • 1997
  • R
  • 1h 13m
IMDb RATING
3.3/10
459
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The Haunted Sea (1997)
ActionHorror

A ship with Aztec treasure is found adrift. Captain Ramsey's crew battles a creature guarding the cursed treasure as greed and paranoia spread among them.A ship with Aztec treasure is found adrift. Captain Ramsey's crew battles a creature guarding the cursed treasure as greed and paranoia spread among them.A ship with Aztec treasure is found adrift. Captain Ramsey's crew battles a creature guarding the cursed treasure as greed and paranoia spread among them.

  • Director
    • Dan Golden
  • Writer
    • Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
  • Stars
    • Krista Allen
    • Don Stroud
    • Duane Whitaker
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    3.3/10
    459
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Dan Golden
    • Writer
      • Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
    • Stars
      • Krista Allen
      • Don Stroud
      • Duane Whitaker
    • 12User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Krista Allen
    Krista Allen
    • 2nd Mate Johnson
    Don Stroud
    Don Stroud
    • Chief Foster
    Duane Whitaker
    Duane Whitaker
    • Andy Delgado
    Jeff Phillips
    • Charlie Lane
    James Brolin
    James Brolin
    • Captain Ramsey
    Joanna Pacula
    Joanna Pacula
    • 1st Mate Bergren
    Ronald William Lawrence
    Ronald William Lawrence
    • Marcus Talbot
    Eb Lottimer
    Eb Lottimer
    • Doug Ward
    Leonard Donato
    • Chief Engineer Anderson
    • (as Len Donato)
    Horacio Le Don
    • Randall Fisher
    Cole S. McKay
    Cole S. McKay
    • Captain Jameson
    • (as Cole McKay)
    Brendon Crigler
    • Queztacoatl
    • Director
      • Dan Golden
    • Writer
      • Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
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    2capkronos

    Waterlogged ALIEN rip-off.

    Most low budget ALIEN copies try to camouflage the fact they're copies by setting them in some exotic locale. We have gotten ALIEN underwater (LEVIATHAN, DEEPSTAR SIX, etc.), underground (MIND RIPPER), in a jungle (PREDATOR), on post-holocaust earth (CREEPOZOIDS), in skyscrapers (PROJECT: METALBEAST) and basically anywhere where people in a confined space are stalked and killed off by a big FX monster. It's all the same. Some are good, some are OK and some are terrible. This one (set on an abandoned boat) falls into the latter category, but gets some major unintentional laughs thanks mainly to the awful creature design.

    Here (in case anyone cares), an ancient Aztec statue turns a guy into a terrible looking, floppy-handed lizard creature who attacks and kills off most of the cast. Flashbacks to an Aztec temple (using badly incorporated stock footage) are just an excuse to get big-breasted star Krista Allen out of her clothes (not a bad thing). Joanna Pacula deserves to be in better movies. James Brolin deserves his eventual fate (marriage to *ARGHHH!* Barbra Streisand!)

    Score: 2 out of 10
    2HumanoidOfFlesh

    Incredibly awful.

    Along with "Grim" this is possibly the worst monster-on-the-loose horror film I have ever seen.James Brolin and Joanna Pacula are completely wasted in this piece of crap.As for Pacula,she is my favourite Polish actress but why she was involved in this disaster is beyond me.The plot is obnoxious and stupid,the monster looks incredibly fake and the special effects are mostly made up of splattering red paint/blood on the wall when someone gets hacked up.The lead actress Krista Allen is extremely annoying and incredibly wooden.To sum up,if you enjoy lame acting,cheesy gore effects and an implausible plot,then this is the film for you.If not,avoid it like the plague.
    Memlets

    "Aztec" silliness

    The other user comment for this movie says it all, except that Barbra Streisand should forbid hubby James Brolin from ever again attempting an Irish accent.

    And then there's that gimme cap on the noggin of the usually glamorous, decidedly non-butch Joanna Pacula.

    MST3K is gone, sad to say. This would have been perfect fodder.
    3Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki

    Only good for unintended laughs and plentiful nudity.

    The sea isn't *haunted*, so much as it is inhabited by an abandoned ship home to a gassy-sounding, rubbery, dinosaur-looking creature who is supposed to be the feathered, winged serpent known as Quetzacoatl. Apparently, the filmmakers didn't do their homework on that one, because its physical description, as well as the spelling of its name, are incorrect herein. Eventually, a small crew board the ship and discover a crate filled with a curiously lightweight gold statue. Several times, top-heavy Krista Allen imagines herself jiggling and bouncing topless during some sort of sacrificial offering, before the statue shock/ possesses one of their number, who turns into a fanged, belching, slobbering demon, and rips them to shreds, eventually turning into what this film calls "Queztacoatl".

    Lengthy tracking shots during opening credits only serve to pad out the film's brief run time, as does Krista Allen's shower scene and plentiful nude scenes (I counted three in the first fifteen minutes) . Krista has a great body, but should either stick to doing porn, or at least get better screenplays to work with. The camera jiggles almost as much as her huge rack does, which makes it difficult to figure out what little is happening on-screen.

    The final shot is intended to be a shock twist ending, but it only made me groan. Furthermore, it is held for such a long time that any surprise which might have been is slowly driven away by boredom.
    BruceMc

    Large breasts, not-too-special-effects

    "The Haunted Sea" is an incredibly bad, cheap movie, noteworthy only for its short length and gratuitous nudity. Krista Allen-Morritt's so-big-they-won't-fit-in-a-football-helmet breasts are the true stars of this "Aliens", "Q, The Winged Serpent", and "Leviathan" rip-off, as she's topless at every possible occasion, including dream sequences and a shower scene.

    Casting borders on the ridiculous: extraordinarily beautiful Joanna Pacula is the freighter's 2nd-in-command, and James Brolin (Barbra Streisand's paramour) is the ship's captain who uses such nautical terms as "left" and "right."

    Special effects are ridiculous: the monster looks like a cheap Godilla (think of "Godzookie" on the old cartoon); animated "lightning" jumps off ancient Aztec statues; the assorted killings are amateurish at best.

    See it only if you have nothing better to do for it's 84 minute running time.

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    • Trivia
      Like his other films, producer Roger Corman wanted scenes with naked women included. When they approached Krista Allen, she wanted the role, but was in no mood to do any nudity. She had just finished spending several years making seven Emmanuelle films where she spent most of her time stark naked and having simulated sex. Director Dan Golden told her the nudity was non negotiable and she finally but reluctantly agreed. Golden then shot too long scenes of her totally naked in a shower and a fantasy scene of her topless being sacrificed by some ancient Aztecs first because he didn't want to risk her changing her mind later.
    • Goofs
      The correct spelling is Quetzalcoatl, not Queztacoatl.
    • Quotes

      Andy Delgado: Hades? Ain't that an old timey word for hell?

    • Connections
      Referenced in Best of the Worst: Our VHS Collection (2019)

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    • Release date
      • November 11, 1997 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Ghost Ship
    • Production companies
      • Concorde Pictures
      • Concorde-New Horizons
      • The Pacific Trust
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 13m(73 min)
    • Color
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