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A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Blistering performances.

A group of scientists working in an undersea station discover an alien spacecraft. They, quite naturally, investigate. They discover a cylinder shaped object and bring it to their station for further testing. Before you can say "guy in a rubber suit", the thing hatches an amphibious type creature who immediately goes on a rampage. The good guys must try to stay alive and destroy the alien craft before any more of these things show up.Admittedly, there are a lot of problems with Destination Inner Space. It's goofy, features from ridiculous acting, and has obvious budgetary limitations. But despite all that, there is a good deal of fun to be had. Fans of monster romps should find something to enjoy. I found the monster suit surprisingly effective. It's a unique design quite a bit different form what I've seen before. I especially enjoyed the use of color. Makes it look a bit like the sunfish I used to catch as a child when I went fishing with my grandfather. A decent amount of action, some scientific mumbo-jumbo, and some cheap, but fun miniatures are other highlights. Overall, a decent amount of entertainment despite the weaknesses.Two other things worth mentioning:1. I got a real unintended laugh out of star Scott Brady. First, he's a complete fish out of water. He has no business being in this movie. Second, just watching him try to buckle his diving vest over his pooch is a hoot. 2. I'm not sure I've ever actually seen Mike Road in a movie, but I knew that voice as soon as I heard it - Race Bannon. Too cool!

9/10 - Brilliant B-Movie; engaging, charismatic and influential.This is a fun film with genuine thrills to offer. We have a range of stock characters, acted out professionally by a cast battling with the pitfalls of low-production values, working through a simple yet imaginatively dealt with plot, and a monster that gets a lot of screen-time- and deservedly so.The music, composed by veteran composer Paul Dunlap, serves up an aquatic creepiness as well as an effective aid to the shock moments in the film. It is an original and memorable score that has since been echoed in later films.An amphibious monster terrorises the crew of a submerged marine research base. It was clearly inspired by Millicent Patrick's design for the Creature in "The Creature From The Black Lagoon" (Jack Arnold, 1954), but with more ferocious features and a determination for cold blooded murder as opposed to love and self-defence. With regards the monster suit the attention to detail is astounding and almost unbelievable considering some of the models and sets and Ron Burke plays the creature well.The cast of this film do very well considering the dysfunctional props and aforementioned low production values all round. Scott Brady and Gary Merrill deliver every line with the gusto expected from an old horror and Sheree North plays an able and confident member of the crew. The supporting performances from Mike Road, Wende Wagner and John Howard (to name a few) are ably done and James Hong has an early role as the chef – watch Deep Blue Sea (Renny Harlin, 1999) and compare LL Cool J and his parrot to him.This film is compared – often unfavourably- with Howard Hawks' The Thing From Another World (1951) but I would argue that Destination Inner Space is a far more entertaining feature despite its flaws. Lyon's film is ridden with hilarious onset problems that are made entertaining by the cast's refusal to acknowledge any of them, such as Scott Brady's first attempt at getting into his diving gear. These little problems, in my opinion, make the film endearing.It was fashionable in the late 80's to work on underwater films. The figurehead of these films was James Cameron's "The Abyss" (1989); others include "Leviathan" (George P Cosmatos, 1989), "Deepstar Six" (Sean S Cunningham, 1989), Lords of the Deep (Mary Ann Fisher, 1989) and The Rift (Juan Piquer Simon, 1990), as well as later films such as Creatures From The Abyss (Al Passeri, 1994), Proteus (Bob Keen, 1995) and Deep Blue See (Renny Harlin, 1999). Destination Inner Space is, to my knowledge, the earliest horror film to take place in the desolate surroundings of the deep sea, particularly with a scientific/military theme and I would argue that there are elements of this film in the later films.I thoroughly enjoyed what I thought would be a cringe-worthy low budget 60's cheese-fest and came to the conclusion that it is a very entertaining film that harks back to the black and white horrors of the 1950's. It's a shame that this film had such a small budget in a way as it could have been a big success.Well worth a watch and I think in need of a clean-up and subsequent blu-ray release.

Watching this film always reminds me of the much superior "The Thing (from Another World)", the wonderful 1951 Howard Hawks movie about an alien terrorizing an Arctic base. Here, the setting is an underwater research lab, staffed by naive scientists and accompanied by the steel-jawed Commander Wayne (Scott Brady).The gill-man alien does a great job of menacing the crew throughout the whole movie. Naturally, Commander Wayne knows it's a kill-or-be-killed situation, while the befuddled scientists sort of stand around. The alien tries to duplicate itself (a la "The Thing") but the Commander of course saves the day at the end.The shopworn script borrows heavily from "The Thing", the gill-man is less than convincing (you can see where the air tank is hidden), and the special effects--if you want to call them that--are just horrible. The miniatures are among the most unconvincing in movie history.Besides Brady, well-known stars Gary Merrill and Sheree North are among the cast, along with several unknowns. The stars must have needed the money, I guess. Watching this film is better than a trip to the dentist, but that's about it.

This isn't a B-flick. It's worse, it's a C-flick. Sea-flick? See?Now that my really bad joke is out of the way, I can say this movie is one really bad joke on the audience. To say that the science is flawed is an understatement. (The specimens in the biology lab will die without air?!? They're a sealab; their purpose is to study water-breathing life!) The bombast-filled score is nothing more than stale leftovers from the 1950s, straining at almost every moment to add suspense where none exists. The sets are among the least convincing I've ever seen and the special effects are laughable. The "giant" spaceship and the sealab look like the 12-inch miniatures they probably were. The rubber-suited monster is not scary at all even when poor bluescreen matting makes it look several times larger that life. Worst of all, it commits the cardinal sin that distinguishes truly bad movies from the classics like "Plan 9 from Outer Space," it's no fun. It makes Irwin Allen's "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" series look like "Star Wars." Even the eminently forgettable "DeepStar Six" and "Leviathan" were an order of magnitude better than this. It's almost enough to make me rent "Sphere" and finally see the second half. Almost, but nothing's quite that bad.