Monster That Challenged The World, The (Full Frame)

VHS, 83 minutes, MGM

It was just another routine Navy experiment on the placid waters of California's Salton Sea. Or was it? When a trio of researchers disappear, the Naval base's head of intelligence and his assistant rush out in a patrol boat to investigate. What they discover terrifies and confounds them: a boat, adrift, with one man scared to death - literally - and two others dead, mysteriously drained of body fluids. There are no clues, save for an inexplicable, jelly-like substance found near the bodies. Suspecting radioactivity in the water, they send the gel in for analysis, and divers conduct a sea-floor investigation. What they discover is a giant, radioactive, prehistoric monster bearing eggs...and the terrifying possibility of thousands more. The trouble really begins when an earthquake stimulates the slimy sea monsters to life. The edge-of-your-seat thriller, featuring Hans Conried ("The Danny Thomas Show") and Tim Holt ("Treasure of the Sierra Madre") blend drama, romance and tension for a totally terrifying scenario. As the Los Angeles Times aptly notes, "it turns our very familiar Imperial Valley into a land of literally creeping terror.".