WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Bezenby Upon visiting Greece, I'd imagine most folk would expect Mediterranean charm, olives, very hairy men, white buildings and loads of islands. What you probably wouldn't expect is to be attacked by an invisible screaming dinosaur, I'd imagine. This is what happens to Antonio Casas and his group when they think they've located a stash of hidden gold in the hills of Greece. Antonio and his two ex-war buddies are refreshingly honest and honourable with each other despite the stash being worth millions, and everyone here involved seems to be genuinely nice people, including Antonio's daughter Soleded Miranda, and some other guy's girl Ingrid Pitt. The only person slightly off mood wise is the maid of the house they are staying at, who is all doom and gloom about the cave they think the gold is in.Very soon the team discover an ancient mummy, and two seemingly petrified eggs. One egg breaks open in the case (and what's inside vanishes) while the other, rather unwisely, is left on a mantelpiece above a roaring fire. Not the best idea that. While most of the group are at the house eating dinner or whatever, something very loud and invisible carves up the guy studying the mummy. People soon twig very quickly to what's going on (except the maid, strangely), so soon we have a situation where the house is under siege from an unseen deadly foe. How do you take on something you can't see? The group here, for the most part, actually don't act that stupid for a horror film and are really supportive with each other. There's no back stabbing or double crossing about the gold either which makes the characters more likeable.It's slow to get going, but there's a lot of atmosphere in the first half of the film as the maid goes on about the cursed cave and we see locals standing at the top of hills way off in the distance, too scared to come any closer. You do get some rough special effects but this is a cheap Euro horror film, but then again the ending seem to me to be more like something out of the eighties. Future tragic Jess Franco star Soledad Miranda does a bit of Greek dancing for the lads too, and Ingrid Pitt does some sixties dancing, which leads one of the older men to remark about how it's good that the young can be free and happy, when they in their youth were 'dancing around bullets'. What's with the mature, likeable characters?

mastertech48 I saw this film in the early seventies, on TV, on a Saturday afternoon. I missed the beginning of the film but VERY shortly got hooked on the storyline. What I saw I LIKED! The movie's simplicity, it being in black and white, and some surprisingly good acting, make this one slick little film! As far as "B" movies are looked upon, this one actually is extremely good!!PLOT SPOILERS AHEAD!!! DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU WANT TO WATCH A REALLY SUSPENSEFUL MOVIE!! As stated, the film is about a group of treasure hunters who unwittingly release a terrible, screeching, invisible, dinosaur from inside a cave they were exploring. This beast is large, utterly ferocious, and has long claws.It exudes an animal scream that'll make your skin crawl! It's totally invisible, too--and this low-budget film makes the most of it. The hapless prospectors have only a small house for refuge. They also have an old, broken-down four-wheel drive vehicle parked a medium distance from the house with which to escape. Most of the movie deals with the people trying to devise a way to either kill the beast or escape. You find out later the dinosaur is female and that one of the folks inadvertently took an egg for a souvenir. The egg eventually just begins to hatch, the baby inside, not yet able to achieve invisibility, is smashed to death by the frightened people. The mother creature is constantly prowling around outside, completely unseen. Finally, one of the people devises an ingenious plan to spread flour all around the house so they can have some short warning and know the whereabouts of the animal. BIG SPOILER TO ENDING HERE--DO NOT READ FURTHER!! They eventually conjure up a plan to attract the creature to the vehicle and set the gasoline tank ablaze. This burns the screaming beast to death but, in the sooty smoke, you finally get to see the raptor-like dinosaur revealed. This is a popcorn munching movie, containing constant suspense, very passable acting, a simple plot that WORKS, and very real danger. If you want to kill some time and watch a good film from yesteryear, this is definitely worth your time!

altair42002 This was included in the "tales of terror" box set so I wasn't expecting anything fantastic. I was not disappointed. The director was clearly trying to save money on the fx by making the monster invisible and by filming in the middle of nowhere and claiming they were in Greece. Judging by the locations, this could have been filmed in Arizona or Mexico. On another subject, who in there right mind would name their child Caliope?? Not only did she have a stupid name, she has to be one of the ugliest women I've ever seen (could she be Keith Richards sister??). I had to cheer the monster when he found her as his next victim. One funny line is before they try to leave one guy says "I put Calliope in her bed, we can send someone to bury her when we get to town".

winner55 The producers of "night of the Demon" have long been blasted for inserting the image of the monster at the end of that film, thus deflating some of its rich suspense. Yet the makers of the present film have been equally blasted for not providing more than a few brief glimpses of the monster from the cave on the Greek island explored here. Ya jus' can't win.Noramally, I would also be upset with the lack of visual monster, but here, it is quite clear that insisting on the monster's visibility misses the whole point of the movie. First the movie is about the people trapped by the monster, and is really a suspense film, not a monster movie. Second the whole gist of the movie is that the origins of the monster are unclear - it is not really a 'dinosaur,' as critics claim, but a residual creature from the mythic period of ancient Greece. If the audience doesn't catch that, the movie is lost - yet, it is hard to see how this could be missed - the archaeologists are not searching for remnants of the past or simply gold, they seek the stolen treasure of Troy - cursed since first buried.Granting this premise lifts the film considerably. There are gaffes along the way, to be sure, and it's never more than a B-movie - but taken on its own terms, its an OK B-movie, and certainly one of the best to be produced by the Spanish cinema of its day.