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[[File:Monsterthatchallenged 1957film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The Monster that Challenged the World]]

''The Monster that Challenged the World'', AKA ''The Jagged Edge'', (1957)

==Summary==
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"Crawling up from the depths... to terrify and torture!"  An earthquake doesn't just shake up Southern California -- it awakens a nest of monsters lurking in the Salton Sea. These bloodthirsty sea snails are gobbling up anyone who sets foot in the water. And when the creatures move on to land in search of wider hunting grounds, they launch a reign of terror that threatens to spread across the whole country. Humanity's only hope rests on a crew of intrepid scientists and Lt. Cmdr. John Twillinger.

==Details==

* Release Date:  1957
* Country/Language:  US, English
* Genres/Technical:  Horror, Sci-Fi, black-and-white
* Setting:  [[1950s]] ocean near [[California]]
* Runtime:  1 hr 24 min
* Starring:  Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried
* Director:  Arnold Laven
* Writer:  David Duncan (story), Pat Fielder (screenplay)
* Producer/Production Co:  Gramercy Pictures (II)
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWRi23-r6p8 link])

==Ratings==
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* Rated:  approved (roughly equivalent to a PG for mild 1950s violence)

===Tentacle Ratings===
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* S____ (One Tentacle:  Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)

Not very "Lovecraftian", except for the presence of soggy tentacle-monsters....

''Note:  This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

===Reviews===
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==Synopsis==
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An earthquake doesn't just shake up Southern California -- it awakens a nest of monsters lurking in the Salton Sea. These bloodthirsty sea snails are gobbling up anyone who sets foot in the water. And when the creatures move on to land in search of wider hunting grounds, they launch a reign of terror that threatens to spread across the whole country. Humanity's only hope rests on a crew of intrepid scientists and Lt. Cmdr. John Twillinger.
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==Notes==

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===Associated Mythos Elements===
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===Keeper Notes===
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===External links, See Also===
For more soggy deep-sea tentacle horror movies, see:
* ''[[The Abyss (1989 film)]]''
* ''[[Leviathan (1989 film)]]''
* ''[[Deep Star Six (1989 film)]]''
* ''[[The Rift (1990 film)]]'' AKA Endless Descent
* ''[[Sphere (1998 film)]]''
* ''[[Deep Rising (1998 film)]]''
* ''[[Dagon (2001 film)]]''


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