History Film / TheLochNessHorror

Spencer and Sanderson's efforts to locate Nessie only yield the sunken plane, which causes a bit of a stiry, because it was supposed to have been shot down by a knighted M.P. back when he was a private DuringTheWar. He's concerned that the discovery of the intact bomber (which actually crashed due to engine failure) will ruin his political career, and so he sends Colonel Laughton of the British Army to institute a lockdown ([[IncrediblyLamePun Lochdown]]?) and destroy the evidence (i.e. the plane) via underwater demolition.

''The Loch Ness Horror'' is a 1981 horror film directed by Texan filmmaker Creator/LarryBuchanan (''Film/AttackOfTheTheEyeCreatures'').

* AnAxeToGrind: The Mad Scotsman doesn't like people bothering him on his island, and has a tendency to try and murder them with a medieval battleaxe if they do.

* AnAxeToGrind: The Mad Scotsman doesn't like people bothering him on his island, and has a tendency to try and murder them with a medieval battle axe if they do.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Ouch...

* BloodFromTheMouth: When Nessie attacks Pratt.

* {{MacGuffin}}: Nessie's egg.
* MadScientist: Pratt has some traits of one.

* StockNessMonster

''The Loch Ness Horror'' is a 1981 horror film directed by Texan filmmaker Larry Buchanan (''Film/AttackOfTheTheEyeCreatures'').

''The Loch Ness Horror'' is a 1981 horror film directed by Texan filmmaker Larry Buchanan (''Film/AttackOfTheEyeCreatures'').

Scottish scientist Professor George Sanderson obtains the help of [[EagleLand American]] sonic expert Spencer Dean to hunt for the legendary Loch Ness Monster. Spencer ends up falling for Kathleen Stuart, the daughter of irritable local nobleman Jack Stuart, who claims to have taken the very first photo of Nessie and has it mounted on his wall. Meanwhile, rival scientist Professor Pratt and his men are also hunting for Nessie. They find a sunken WorldWarII German bomber in the Loch before retrieving Nessie's egg. Although Nessie kills both of Pratt's assistants, he manages to abscond with the egg in his Volkswagen van.

* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII: When the prologue is set.

The film is infamous for its poor special effects, meandering story, awful use of CaliforniaDoubling and the fact that, as with almost all of his films, Larry Buchanan uses members of his family both in front of the camera and behind it, whether they're suited to the task or not. The Nessie puppet (just a head on a stick) was later used as [[ItMakesSenseInContext Jack the Ripper]] in one of the "''Bullshit or Not?''" segments in ''Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon''.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Lake Tahoe doubles for Loch Ness. Poorly.
** Also a bit of "Austria doubling," as scenes of the German bomber flying over snowy mountains are shots of a plane flying over mountains in Austria from ''Film/WhereEaglesDare'' (where they themselves were doubling for Bavarian mountains!).

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[[caption-width-right:327:For once, not a case of CoversAlwaysLie; it may not look as impressive, but this ''does'' happen in the movie.]]

* StockSoundEffects: Nessie's roar sound familiar? It's a TIE Fighter from ''Film/StarWars''!

* WorldWarII: When the prologue is set.