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Top 20 Craziest Kaiju: Number 13

13

The Deep Sea Alien Creature

from DeepStar Six
(US-1989; dir. Sean S. Cunningham)

Well, at least Snyder will get his name in the Guinness Book of Records. I mean, causing two nuclear explosions in one afternoon has to be some sort of record.

Here’s one of cinema’s most insane-looking scene stealers. It only appears on screen a couple of times and for only a few moments, but the undersea fiend is truly a one-of-a-kind creation — some mutant crab/crustacean hybrid. Its origins are obscure, but the film was one of the rash of “aliens of the deep” movies that appeared around the time of The Abyss — this one from Sean “Friday the 13th” Cunningham.

Trailer:

An attack scene:

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Coming soon: Kaiju Search-Robot Avery’s Top 20 Craziest Kaiju Countdown Number 12!

Top 20 Craziest Kaiju Countdown articles:

Kaiju Search-Robot Avery’s Introduction
Number 20: The Monolith Monsters
Number 19: The Giant Claw
Number 18: Dogora
Number 17: The Trollenberg Terror
Number 16: Rectuma
Number 15: The Outlander
Number 14: The Host

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Published:: Apr 29 2008 / 7:15 am

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Terry Frost 04.29.08 / 10am

Along a similar line, I much prefer the monster in Deep Rising, and that film had an extremely cool ending.

Backbrain 04.29.08 / 10am

“Deep Rising” is a personal favourite of mine, too. Very under-rated, in my opinion. And though I enjoyed Sommers’ Mummy films, it’s been all downhill for him as his budgets got bigger.

But Avery’s feeling was that the “DeepStar Six” critter was more unique, rather than that the film was a better one.

I agree about Sommers. Van Helsing was like a computer game animatic starring Hugh Jackman.

Backbrain 04.29.08 / 11am

“Van Helsing” was a film I should have liked. In principle it was made for someone like me. But I got bored with the endless extremes and tedious escalation of climaxes. It was a case of: “Hey, we’ve still got a few million dollars left. Let’s have the moon falling out of the sky!”

Terry Frost 04.29.08 / 11am

I agree, but I’m much more optimistic about the new Wolf Man movie coming out of Universal starring Benecio Del Toro. Looks like they might be doing it right.

Avery 04.29.08 / 2pm

I really love the design of this creature.It looks pretty bad-ass!! Almost ‘crab-like’.It’s definitely creative and different.

Ben 05.21.08 / 2pm

This movie rocks – two words only – Miguel Ferrer.

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Top 20 Craziest Kaiju: Number 13

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The Deep Sea Alien Creature

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