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Up from the Depths

3.8 (34 votes)• 1979• 85m•Released

Horror

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The staff and vacationers at a first-class resort on the island of Maui are beginning to mysteriously disappear. A biologist believes that an underwater earthquake has caused a giant and very hungry dormant prehistoric fish to be released from its slumber. The fish voraciously helps itself to a tourist buffet. Now it is open season for the local fishermen to find and kill the creature.

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Production Details

Languages: English

Director: Charles B. Griffith

Starring Cast: Sam Bottoms, Susanne Reed, Virgil Frye, Kedric Wolfe, Charles Howerton, Denise Hayes

Cast

Sam Bottoms

Greg Oliver

Susanne Reed

Rachel McNamara

Virgil Frye

Earl Sullivan

Kedric Wolfe

Oscar Forbes

Charles Howerton

Dr. David Whiting

Denise Hayes

Iris Lee

Chuck Doherty

Ed Bennett

Helen McNeely

Louellen Bennett

Ken Metcalfe

Mr. Holland

Randy Taylor

Jimmy

Dave D'Martyn

Tourist #1

Clem Persons

Maintenance Man (as Clem Parsons)

Peter Cooper

Nieberg

Katherine Scholy

Darleen

Ken Petruic

Harry

Bobby Greenwood

Tourist #2

R. Lee Ermey

Arnold (uncredited)

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