THE CRATER LAKE MONSTER-1977-At Crater Lake in Northern California, archaeologist Dan Turner (Richard Garrison) and his girlfriend Sue (Kacey Cobb) show a professor some cave drawings they discovered. There's a cave-in but they escape just as a meteor falls into the lake. The trio along with Sheriff Steve Hanson (co-screenwriter Richard Carella) go to investigate. They find the meteor but it's too hot.
Later a giant
(stop motion) dinosaur emerges from the lake and kills a hiker and
eats a rancher's cattle. Someone calls to report seeing a monster
but the sheriff doesn't believe it. When two hillbillies have a fight
in the lake they discover the severed head of a guy they rented a
boat to. A side story involving a robber who kills two people just
seems to be filler. Somehow Steve kills the monster using a
bulldozer. The monster and the stop motion (by Dave Allen) isn't bad
but the acting is terrible and the music seems out of place.
Co-screenwriter/director William R. Stromberg never made another
movie.
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