semi-annual "name that movie" dilema

[ctc]

So....

There's amovie that I've been looking for, but don't know the name of; and every so often I bring it up hoping someone's seen it. It's not "The Bermuda Depths," but it DOES feature a weird girl/ghost/giant turtle plot. This one takes place on an oil drilling rig, where the crew finds a woman floating in the sea. They take her on board and she turns out to be a weird turtle/lycanthrope sort of thing. The scene I remember best is at the end: the rig is wrecked, and there are two characters left, the hero and his sidekick. She transforms and eats the sidekick, and I remember the transitional phase of the transformation. For a second they show her with heavy Aztec/Egyptian looking makeup and weird eyes.

Anyone seen this one?

Don C.

[Meule]

Nope, but it sure sounds like a cool movie

[thunderbolt]

Cool, a were-turtle. This I gotta see.

[ramsey37]

Any idea who any of the stars were? I'm stumped.
George

[palitoy]

YouTube - Proteus (1995) Final Monster Great White Shark Transformation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeL-YTAvNbE)

Proteus?

[Gorn Captain]

So....

There's amovie that I've been looking for, but don't know the name of; and every so often I bring it up hoping someone's seen it. It's not "The Bermuda Depths," but it DOES feature a weird girl/ghost/giant turtle plot. This one takes place on an oil drilling rig, where the crew finds a woman floating in the sea. They take her on board and she turns out to be a weird turtle/lycanthrope sort of thing. The scene I remember best is at the end: the rig is wrecked, and there are two characters left, the hero and his sidekick. She transforms and eats the sidekick, and I remember the transitional phase of the transformation. For a second they show her with heavy Aztec/Egyptian looking makeup and weird eyes.

Anyone seen this one?

Don C.

Actually, I had that happen to me on a vacation....

Man, sounds like weird movie....

[ctc]

>Proteus?

Nope, but that's pretty close. This one was from the very early 80's. (Similar enough it might have been "inspired" by the film I'm thinking of.) I don't remember anybody who was in it, and it might have been one of them "movie of the week" deals.

The last scene has the hero and his bud hanging on to the rapidly sinking ruins of the oil rig, and it's raining really hard. The girl shows up and the sidekick goes off 'cos he'd suspected her of being evil right from the start. There's a bit of talking, she smiles and transforms, eats buddy and leaves. The Proteus scene is very similar, but in the one I'm thinking of the hero is already in the water at this point, and the transformation is ony a second or two.

>Cool, a were-turtle. This I gotta see.

I can't attest to how cool it was, since I haven't seen it for 28 years. I remember it was early 80's 'cos it would have come out just after "Empire Strikes Back."

Don C.

[ramsey37]

I took the liberty of posting about this thread over at the UMA. It's possible someone there might have a better idea of what the title of this film is.
George

[SUP-Ronin]

The Intruder Within (1981) (TV) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082565/#comment)

MonsterHunter The Intruder Within (1981) (http://monsterhunter.coldfusionvideo.com/2008/07/the-intruder-within-1981/)

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d54/slasherman1971/dask/vlcsnap-462026.png

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I don't know if "The Intruder Within" is the film. It fits the criteria, but I remember the woman being the monster, and them finding her at sea. Don't remember the eggs. It COULD be the same, but I can't find a really good description of this film.

....but there CAN'T be that many "evil oil rig" films out here. Can there....?

Don C.

[SUP-Ronin]

...but there CAN'T be that many "evil oil rig" films out here. Can there....?

Don C.


No you wouldn't think so, especially not in that time frame, but who knows?

[palitoy]

Intruder within was my second guess but it doesn't have any transformation

[kryptosmaster]

Sounds like a typical Sci-Fi Channel movie of the week. :smiley1::smiley1:

Rich

[ctc]

So;

I e-mailed the guy who runs the second site and he confirmed it's NOT "The Intruder Within." So.... how many giant turtle/woman/monster movies ARE there?!?!?! Was this a popular genre in the early 80's?

I'd almost think I'd imagined the film, but I have a friend who remembers the last scene too; with the transformation. I remember it vividly 'cos I had a toy rubber turtle that I couldn't play with in the bathtub for months after seeing that scene. When "The Bermuda Depths" was shown a few years ago, we both thought that was the film, but it wasn't.

I'm surprised at how similar that scene in "Proteus" is to this film. Except the giant turtlewoman eats buddy, then stares down the hero and eventually leaves. As I recall they had feelings for each other by the end of the film. It's a very short scene; maybe a minute or two. Maybe I should track down the producers of "Proteus" and ask if they'd seen the film I'm looking for.

Don C.

[palitoy]

Intruder Within, the monster is some sort of prehistoric monster, it scared the living hell out of me at eleven.

[trekman101]

this sounds like a TV movie I saw.The movies last scene had one of the characters (I think he was Carl Weathers)shoot the turtle with a harpoon gun,get his leg caught in the harpoons line and get pulled under water with the last image of the film being the turtle dragging him through the water as it swam away.

[ramsey37]

this sounds like a TV movie I saw.The movies last scene had one of the characters (I think he was Carl Weathers)shoot the turtle with a harpoon gun,get his leg caught in the harpoons line and get pulled under water with the last image of the film being the turtle dragging him through the water as it swam away.
I believe that's a scene from "The Bermuda Depths".
George

[ctc]

>I believe that's a scene from "The Bermuda Depths".

Yeah, that's it. I thought "The Bermuda Depths" was the movie I was looking for, until I saw it a few years ago. It's kinda similar, except in it the woman is a ghost who sold her soul to the devil. (Played by a giant turtle monster.) In the one I'm thinking of the woman IS the monster; but you don't find out definitively 'til the end.

The Bermuda Depths is an interesting film, if you like B-Movies. The effects are kinda cheap, but the idea is really weird.

Don C.

[Meule]

YouTube - Proteus (1995) Final Monster Great White Shark Transformation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeL-YTAvNbE)

Proteus?

Oh man, I soooo wanna see this movie now

[Meule]

And looks like The Bermuda Depths is another one I need to check out :grin:

[thunderbolt]

There was also Devil Fish that was sorta like this except for the transformation bit.

[Vortigern99]

Is it possible you're combining your memories of two or three different movies into one imaginary movie? Bermuda Depths (which I love and own the DVD of), Proteus and/or The Intruder Within?

Memory, especially childhood memory, can be a tricky thing.

[MysteryWho]

It actually sounds a little like Destination: Inner space, a movie that scared me as a kid.
It's really easy to combine stuff or imagine stuff is real or vice versa.
I saw Hammer's The Lost Continent when I was small and it freaked me out so much that
later I figured it was just a really bad dream. I was surprised when it came out on video,
I really believed it was a nightmare.
Some of these other movies sound pretty interesting too.

[palitoy]

Oh man, I think I saw Destination Inner Space once a month as a kid. It's amazing to watch it now and see the "incredible" models of the undersea lab.

[ctc]

>Is it possible you're combining your memories of two or three different movies into one imaginary movie?

It's always possible, but I got pretty vivid memories of that last scene. And "Proteus" is WAY too late for when I would have seen it. (Actually, I don't think I've EVER seen "Proteus.")

Don C.

[mazinz]

I never say never, but it does seem like you might be combining a few different films. I cannot tell you how many vivid memories I have had from when I was very young at what I thought I saw, only to be proven that years later, I was truly remembering it wrong