After reading some reviews we decided to watch anyway. Expecting to be bored silly and put to sleep, I was surprised the movie actually was pretty good. It's not overlong. The opening documentary type intro went on a little too long and didn't add much to the movie. Rather than showing an octopus and shark fighting that time would have been better spent on a geology lesson.
We watched this movie with interest the whole way through. The idea is fairly intriguing, it's just not that well crafted and the budget was obviously thin. If they had spent a little more time and money and come up with a neat cave entrance and how it actually was possible, and added some more interesting things inside the caves it would have helped things along. I'm no fan of special effects, but you basically have to use your imagination here. This movie was made in 1959, but it seems more like 1949.
Still, John Carradine is always entertaining just watching him deliver his lines. The casting wasn't the greatest, the four that go down in the craft are a somewhat dubious foursome. I would have liked to see Carradine do more, it seems that's often the case with him- his parts are too limited and don't showcase his unique talent. Let him do his thing. No one is interested in seeing that one guy putting his shirt on and stuffing his shirt tails in his pants. And why is he doing that in two consecutive scenes anyway? The Incredible Petrified World is an enjoyable watch, intriguing and even kind of scary.
We watched this movie with interest the whole way through. The idea is fairly intriguing, it's just not that well crafted and the budget was obviously thin. If they had spent a little more time and money and come up with a neat cave entrance and how it actually was possible, and added some more interesting things inside the caves it would have helped things along. I'm no fan of special effects, but you basically have to use your imagination here. This movie was made in 1959, but it seems more like 1949.
Still, John Carradine is always entertaining just watching him deliver his lines. The casting wasn't the greatest, the four that go down in the craft are a somewhat dubious foursome. I would have liked to see Carradine do more, it seems that's often the case with him- his parts are too limited and don't showcase his unique talent. Let him do his thing. No one is interested in seeing that one guy putting his shirt on and stuffing his shirt tails in his pants. And why is he doing that in two consecutive scenes anyway? The Incredible Petrified World is an enjoyable watch, intriguing and even kind of scary.