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* Release Date:  1964
 
* Release Date:  1964
 
* Country/Language:  Spain, Spanish
 
* Country/Language:  Spain, Spanish
* Genres/Technical:  Horror, Sci-fi, Fantasy
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* Genres/Technical:  Horror, Sci-fi, Fantasy, black-and-white
 
* Runtime:  1 hr 31 min
 
* Runtime:  1 hr 31 min
 
* Starring:  James Philbrook, Arturo Fernández, Soledad Miranda
 
* Starring:  James Philbrook, Arturo Fernández, Soledad Miranda

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Scene from The Sound of Horror (1964 film)...

The Sound of Horror, AKA El Sonido de la Muerte, Sound of Death, Sound from a Million Years Ago, The Prehistoric Sound, El Sonido Prehistórico (1964)

Summary

"Shiver and shake!" Members of a Greek treasure-hunting expedition are horrified to discover prehistoric eggs containing a powerful force.

Details

  • Release Date: 1964
  • Country/Language: Spain, Spanish
  • Genres/Technical: Horror, Sci-fi, Fantasy, black-and-white
  • Runtime: 1 hr 31 min
  • Starring: James Philbrook, Arturo Fernández, Soledad Miranda
  • Director: José Antonio Nieves Conde
  • Writer: Sam X. Abarbanel (screenplay), Sam X. Abarbanel (story)
  • Producer/Production Co: Zurbano Films
  • View Trailer: (link)

Ratings

MPAA Ratings

  • Rated: (not rated) (probably equivalent to a G or PG for 1950s monster film Violence)

Tentacle Ratings

A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:

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

I've not seen this film yet, but apparently the so-called "screaming dinosaur" actually appears to be some sort of elemental spirit or ghost; some reviewers remark on some similarity to a reference in Lovecraft's "History of the Necronomicon" to the fate of a character being ripped apart by an invisible Old One. This film does not otherwise seem to be especially Lovecraftian compared to many other 1950s monster movies.

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

Reviews

Review Links:

  • (review needed)


Synopsis

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When a group of isolated people in the Greek mountains set off a cave explosion, they are menaced by an invisible shrieking dinosaur that had been buried for eons.


Notes

Comments, Trivia, Dedication

Associated Mythos Elements

  • TO DO
  • race: "invisible shrieking dinosaur" (at a distance, it seems to be closer to the subterranean elemental creatures found in some early Weird fiction by Arthur Machen or Algernon Blackwood)


Keeper Notes