{"id":3135,"date":"2025-10-20T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:28:09","slug":"beast-from-haunted-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=3135","title":{"rendered":"Beast from Haunted Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3141\" src=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beast01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beast01.jpeg 451w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beast01-150x300.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally I watched Beast from Haunted Cave and I have to say I liked it! I am a hugh fan of all things Charles B. Griffith and he wrote the screenplay. There is some great dialog in this film especially a scene between the jaded moll of gangster Frank Wolf and the super straight ski guide. Top Notch. I&#8217;m pretty sure Griffith wrote this but I did hear that Monte Hellman might have done some re-writing. To investigate this further I ordeded a dvd of the unreleased Naked Paradise, that Griffith said was actually an earlier version of this same script. I guess when Griffith wrote something and Roger Corman liked it, the story would get recycled several more times. Anyway I did not ge the dvd as the guy running the site seems to be very ill. I hope he&#8217;s still alive. It sounds bad. I was very impressed with Monte Hellman&#8217;s direction, really just the fact that he pulled off this no budget feature on time and on budget. This had to be very difficult especially because it was Monte&#8217;s first film (he was a theater director) and the story takes place in a very snowy wilderness, difficult place to film! But as I say he did a great job.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3140\" src=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Monte-Hellman-Director.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Monte-Hellman-Director.webp 1000w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Monte-Hellman-Director-300x169.webp 300w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Monte-Hellman-Director-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I met Monte several times back in the day, we have a mutual friend in Rudy Wurlitzer, who wrote Two Lane Blacktop for Monte. Also I was once at his Hollywood Hills Home, he generously let Dennis Bartok have a reading of a script there. Anyway I will track down another copy of Naked Paradise soon and continue the investigation. And if I discover anything noteworthy I will write about it here. Also there are scenes where the Beast of the title captures humans and keeps them alive all glued up in webs in a cave, very effective and I must say a real influence on Ridley Scott&#8217;s Alien. Watch it and see for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3142\" src=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beasthauntedcave05.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1154\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beasthauntedcave05.jpeg 1154w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beasthauntedcave05-300x192.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beasthauntedcave05-1024x655.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beasthauntedcave05-768x491.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1154px) 100vw, 1154px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3144\" src=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beasthauntedcave08.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1023\" srcset=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beasthauntedcave08.jpeg 1600w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beasthauntedcave08-300x192.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beasthauntedcave08-1024x655.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beasthauntedcave08-768x491.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beasthauntedcave08-1536x982.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beast From Haunted Cave (1959) | Full Movie | Michael Forest | Sheila Noonan\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cV8q6ogrmR8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally I watched Beast from Haunted Cave and I have to say I liked it! 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