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Varan the Unbelievable
“From a world below, it came to terrorize - to destroy - to revenge!”
4.5 / 10• 1962• 1h 10m•NR• English
HorrorScience Fiction
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Myron Healey
Cmdr. James Bradley
Lead
Tsuruko Kobayashi
Anna
Clifford Kawada
Capt. Kishi
Derick Shimatsu
Matsu, the boy
Koreya Senda
Dr. Sugimoto
Kōzō Nomura
Paul Isoh
Ayumi Sonoda
Shidori Isoh
FM
Fumito Matsuo
Paul's Friend
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Jerry A. Baerwitz's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Varan the Unbelievable is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
