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Released
1962 · FILM

Varan the Unbelievable

“From a world below, it came to terrorize - to destroy - to revenge!”

Directed by
Jerry A Baerwitz
Written by
Sid Harris
Runtime
70 min
HorrorSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.

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Principal cast & crew: 15

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Rudolph CusumanoShot by Jacques R MarquetteScored by Akira Ifukube

Also known as

  • Varan – Das Monster aus der Urzeitde
  • Daikaijū Varanes
  • Varan, le monstre géantfr
  • Daikaijū Baranit

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