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The Crater Lake Monster

A beast more frightening than your most terrifying nightmare!

3.9(37)19771h 25m2

The heat of a meteor crashing into the lake incubates a prehistoric egg, which grows into a plesiosaur-like monster that terrifies the community.

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Language
English
  • lake
  • robbery
  • monster
  • animal attack
  • giant monster
  • meteor
  • water monster
  • woods
  • revenge
  • redneck
  • lake monster
  • plesiosaur

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG1 Mar 1977

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The Crater Lake Monster was released on 1 March 1977.

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  • W

    Wuchak

    3/4/2018

    5/10

    RELEASED IN 1977 and written & directed by William R. Stromberg, “The Crater Lake Monster” details events in the high country of central California after a meteor strikes the eponymous (fictitious) lake and incubates a prehistoric egg, which hatches a plesiosaur-like creature that terrorizes the locals. Despite the title, the story does not take place in Crater Lake, Oregon, and the filmmakers don’t hide this fac…

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    CinemaSerf

    6/4/2023

    4/10

    Now then - where to start. It would be easy to just rip it to shreds. It's rubbish - on just about every level. For reasons that are not immediately clear, it was digitally remastered (if, indeed, it was ever "mastered" in the first place) in 2011 which, if anything, seems to have merely exacerbated the already dreadful production standards. A meteor lands in the remote "Crater Lake" and before we know it, "Nessie" a…

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