Up from the Depths

Up from the Depths

Your vacation is about to end!!!

R 1979 · 85 min · ★ 3.7 · Horror

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.

Directed by Charles B. Griffith · Written by Alfred M. Sweeney

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