July 2, 2024

This Day in Halloween: Early Cold War monster movie "It Came from Beneath The Sea" opens across the U.S. in 1955. / Illustration by Wynter Malone

It Came from Beneath The Sea opens across the U.S. in 1955. The film, designed as a showcase for Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion animation, is a box office success and remains one of the better 1950s cold war monster movies.

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