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3 | A giant monster film from 1957, directed by Arnold Laven and starring Tim Holt and Audrey Dalton. |
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5 | A string of disappearances happen on a lake in the middle of a desert. The culprits are revealed to be [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever giant mollusks]] that start rising up from the depths, and their upcoming numbers threaten the U.S. Navy base nearby, and everything else beyond it. |
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9 | !!This film has the examples of: |
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11 | * AdorablyPrecociousChild: Little Sandy [[FreeRangeChildren has the run of the lab]], which nearly leads to disaster when she fiddles with the lab equipment to warm up some chilled rabbits. |
12 | * AutopsySnackTime: After Twillinger questions the coroner about what he has learned from the drained corpses, he offers him and the sheriff a sandwich ("It's nice and cold"). Twillinger declines. |
13 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Louis Clark Dobbs, head of the Imperial County Museum. The man has genuinely useful knowledge pertaining to several previously unknown waterways. However, he has a poor way of communicating, which comes across as strange to others. |
14 | * EyeScream: One of the creatures attack Twillinger and company on their boat, and is driven off after it gets its eye poked out. |
15 | * GrievousBottleyHarm: Twillinger tries to get one creature's attention by throwing beakers at it. That fails, so he grabs a fire extinguisher. |
16 | * InformedSpecies: The monsters are given stubby legs and pincer jaws, making them look more like caterpillars with snail shells than like snails. |
17 | * ItsAllMyFault: Upon learning that her daughter Jody is likely dead, Mrs. Simms has a complete breakdown. Crying as she loudly blames herself for her daughters' death. |
18 | * MamaBear: Mrs. Simms is very protective of her daughter Jody. Sadly, this does not prevent Jody from becoming one of the giant mollusk's victims. |
19 | * NightSwimEqualsDeath: Two lovers Morty and Jody go swimming in the moonlight, and they soon disappear beneath the surface. |
20 | * RaceAgainstTheClock: Creatures' eggs are discovered in the bottom of the lake, and they all must be destroyed before they hatch. |
21 | * TouchOfTheMonster: Posters for the film had variations of scantily clad women in peril at the monsters' claws. |
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