The Unknown Terror

The Unknown Terror

Theatrical poster.
Directed by Charles Marquis Warren
Produced by Charles Marquis Warren
Written by Kenneth Higgins
Starring John Howard
Mala Powers
Music by Raoul Kraushaar
Cinematography Joseph F. Biroc
Edited by Michael Luciano
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Release dates
  • August 12, 1957 (1957-08-12)
Country United States
Language English

The Unknown Terror is a 1957 American science fiction/horror film. The film was written by Kenneth Higgins and directed by Charles Marquis Warren. (The original working title was Beyond Terror.) The film was theatrically released in 1957 on a double bill with Back from the Dead.

Plot

The mysterious disappearance of Jim Wheatley, while exploring the "cave of the dead" near a Mexican village, brings his sister, Gina, and her husband, Dan Matthews, to the territory to search for him. Embittered, crippled Pete Morgan insists on going along and reminds Dan that his condition is Dan's fault since it happened in an accident in which Pete saved Dan's life. Plus, Gina was Pete's sweetheart before the accident.

Things become tense when native wife Concha arranges for the men to be led to a place where they can hear the voices of the dead crying from beneath the earth. While they are gone, a grotesque, demented man apparently covered with a foamy fungus attacks Gina and chases her into the jungle.

This creature is run off, but the party determines to find a way to the source of the underground sounds. They do, and find a cave filled with a fast-growing parasitic fungus, some humans who come into contact with it and been turned into monsters, and a stairwell leading to the house of the thuggish researcher, who in fact has created this monster-making fungus artificially and does not plan to stop experimenting with it.

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