a_chinn Poorly made cheap sci-fi horror film about fish-man creature mutated by radiation. There's a ridiculous story involving spies and espionage, but this film is so unbelievably cheap, poorly acted, poorly written, poorly directed, and overall poorly made that there are really no redeeming qualities to recommend watching this film. Overall, "The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues" is a bad creature-feature even by American International Pictures standards. Not even interesting on a so-bad-it's-good level of entertainment.

GL84 After a strange series of deaths around the water, a team's investigation reveals a strange radioactive deposit has grown a vicious radioactive sea creature and must find a way of curtailing both.This is a fairly enjoyable if somewhat problematic creature feature. One of the better elements here is the fact that the relatively simple plot manages to keep things on line to the point of extremely efficient storytelling where there's no real extraneous side-plots or unnecessary ventures. Whether they're enjoyable pieces is another matter, but the fact that it's so streamlined and straightforward keeps this from really going off into pointless territories like it easily could've gone. The whole film really centers on the discovery of the strange radioactive substance in the cove and how the discovery is tied to the institute nearby, and the drive to find it out makes this move along quite well as the mystery slowly comes into focus. After that, there isn't a whole lot here that really works all that well. Despite staying on focus for the duration of time in regards to the investigation, this doesn't really produce a lot of interesting facets due to enlarged amount of time spent on the extraneous facets of the investigation and the different red herrings throughout the story that go nowhere, seeming only to provide enough time to turn this into a feature-length affair while compensating for the atrocious special effects. Those really are that bad with a laughable monster, utterly ridiculous make-up effects on the victims and a rather clumsy nature to the attack scenes that really make for a confusing time with the stiff, immovable costume never making it seem like there's something to fear in the creature which really takes a lot out of the movie when the few times it's on-screen there's not much worth to it. These elements all conspire to keep this down somewhat.Today's Rating-PG: Violence.

daikaiju1954 More like The Phamtom from 15-20 Fathoms. The creature only shows up for about 5-8 minutes combined throughout the entire film. We never even see it go on land or even hear it roar. The rest of the film is a boring mystery-murder story. A few parallels to Godzilla stand out. One, the creature is reptilian, like Godzilla (though man sized). Two, spawned/awakened by radiation. Three, the deadly atomic beam which sinks the ship. Fourth, the genius scientist gives up his life to stop the monster.Fun fact: The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues ended up as the bottom half of a double- bill, below Roger Corman's first science fiction film as director, The Day The World Ended.

Spikeopath The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues is directed by Dan Milner and written by Dorys Lukather and Lou Rusoff. It stars Kent Taylor, Cathy Downs and Michael Whalen. Music is by Ronald Stein and photography by Brydon Baker.Plot, for what it's worth, sees an amphibian like creature suddenly start killing any unfortunate human being that strays near its lair. And just what is that glowing thing down there? An absolute hack job attempting to cash in on the success of far better films of its ilk that were all the rage in the 1950s. It's the sort of Z grade film that gives the fans of creaky creature features and sci-fi schlockers a bad name. Right off the bat the makers commit a big error by introducing us to the man in the rubber suit straight away, a hopeless creation that's about as scary as the insipid dialogue that litters the production. Dialogue that's delivered by a cast of wooden actors who bring laughs on account of the fact they seem to be taking their roles seriously!Milner's direction accounts to being a number of similar scenes strung together at different intervals, with the creature's appearances being as rare as any suspense is. While the 10,000 Leagues aspect is rendered a big joke since the creature is in water that's only about 5 fathoms deep! I wonder if the makers realised that just one league is 3 nautical miles?!Is it in the "so bad it's good" category? Absolutely not! There's a modicum of science interest involving genetic tests and atomic energy dabblings, but this is lost amongst the laborious pacing as the characters do incredibly dumb things. While somewhat surprisingly Ronald Stein's foreboding music is decent and deserves a better movie. It also has a great title, with awesome poster art to match, but all told it's a major "league" clunker and only makes one cherish even more the likes of Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. 2/10