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A group of surface dwellers comes upon an underwater city ruled by a mad scientist and his amphibious servants.A group of surface dwellers comes upon an underwater city ruled by a mad scientist and his amphibious servants.A group of surface dwellers comes upon an underwater city ruled by a mad scientist and his amphibious servants.
Shin'ichi Chiba
- Ken Abe
- (as Sonny Chiba, Shin-ichi Chiba)
Franz Gruber
- Commander Brown
- (as Frank Gruber)
Gunter Braun
- Captain Bob
- (as Gunther Braun)
Erik Neilson
- Dr. Rufus Moore
- (as Enric Nielsen, Erick Nielson)
Mike Danning
- Dr. Josef Heim
- (as Mike Daneen)
Kôji Miemachi
- Chan
- (as Tsuneji Miemachi)
Hans Horneff
- Bill Sirville
- (as Hans Hornef)
John Crane
- Richard
- (as John Kleine)
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I like the simplicity of it. You couldn't intentionally make a movie like this; it's just some kind of magic that falls into place, but the audience has to go along with this kind of accidental wackiness or it will fail to entertain.
In AGENT X-2: OPERATION UNDERWATER, a mad scientist is bent on world domination through his army of cyborg-mutant fish-men. Only Sonny Chiba and his scuba partner can save the Earth from hideous totalitarian control.
They'll have to stay strong as they encounter the scientist's terrible gun-toting sardines!
This movie is loaded with enough cheeeze to fill 10 nuclear submarines! Is it absurd? Of course, but it's also highly entertaining...
They'll have to stay strong as they encounter the scientist's terrible gun-toting sardines!
This movie is loaded with enough cheeeze to fill 10 nuclear submarines! Is it absurd? Of course, but it's also highly entertaining...
1966's "Terror Beneath the Sea" is a forgotten sci-fi from Japan, less surprising once you learn it's from neither Godzilla's Toho, or Gamera's Daiei. It's actually a Toei production, one of three that made it to American shores, with "Magic Serpent" and "The Green Slime" better remembered. Apart from future martial arts star Sonny Chiba, we have teenage blonde Peggy Neal, who went on to star in Shochiku's "The X from Outer Space," who promptly disappeared from the scene. The Gill Man costumes are initially intriguing, but become obvious through repetition, though the prospect of human beings being transformed into amphibian cyborgs manages to produce some effective moments. Director Hajime Sato really struck paydirt with his final film, 1968's "Goke Body Snatcher from Hell" (also from Shochiku), as nightmarish a combination of horror and sci-fi as any made in Japan. "Terror Beneath the Sea" aka "Water Cyborgs" was frequently seen on television through the late 70s (not much since), airing three times on Pittsburgh's Chiller Theater from 1974 to 1978.
While this movie has all the elements that make old sci-fi movies suck,it somehow doesn't suck. The creature from the black lagoon has been cloned and is now in Japan,so of course two reporters must investigate.They immediately go scuba diving because what is a movie without scuba diving?I swear I can't remember the last time I saw a movie without scuba diving.Of course one of the reporters is a woman and wouldn't you know it...she sees the monster first.Two times when the camera cuts to him it's extremely clear that he's not underwater.As the woman swims away they superimpose the monster over her.Not content with nearly being killed, they must investigate further.That's when they discover that a guy has figured out how to transform humans into any form he wants.He explains how but then they just put what looks like a few human organs sewn together into a guy and the transformation begins.It's long,tedious and boring and the woman gasps constantly at the extremely slow process.At one point the guy even gets tiger feet before becoming a CFTBL clone. Did I mention that this guy has made a whole army of these things? And that he calls them cyborgs even though they have nothing robotic about them?And that he controls the entire army with a big knob that has settings like "work" and "fight"?And when he needs them all to stop he has to make a pa announcement so the guy standing next to him can turn the knob. I'm sure I didn't mention that he looks like Kevin Spacey in sunglasses.How do I even know who that is?? You would think that one of the monsters having his armpit "skin" ripped open would be the funniest thing in the movie but you'd be wrong.The funniest, and therefore best part of the movie, is all the underwater fire.What?I didn't mention that most of the movie takes place under water?Or that this guy has built his own Epcot center in the ocean? Doesn't matter. All that matters is this movie has more underwater fire than you will see everywhere else for as long as you live.
Okay Japanese rubber suit/monster flick. Mad scientist plans to rule the world with his fishmen/water cyborgs from his underwater base. Sonny Chiba in an early role is the hero and American Peggy Neal plays the girl in trouble. Best viewed late at night with Attack of the Mushroom People.
Did you know
- TriviaThis was Peggy Neal's motion picture debut.
- GoofsDuring one of the fight scenes (after control of the cyborgs is lost) one of the cyborg costumes is clearly torn below the shoulder, exposing the stuntman's skin.
- Crazy creditsThe American version's opening credits constantly overlap each other and fade in and out.
- Alternate versionsMade in 2 versions with Japanese version having more violence and international version having longer English language performances.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Chiller Theatre: Terror Beneath the Sea (1975)
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- La malédiction des grands fonds
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- 1h 30m(90 min)
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- 1.33 : 1
- 1.66 : 1
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