jacobjohntaylor1 This is a great movie. It is very scary. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It is one of the best movies I have seen. It is scarier then A Nightmare on elm street.

Michael_Elliott The Incredible Petrified World (1959) ** (out of 4)A scientist (John Carradine) creates a diving bell that will allow him to try and get a better understanding of the ocean. On its trial run he lowers it (and several people) into the ocean but it breaks free and falls to the bottom of the ocean. He fears that everyone is dead but in fact they are alive and find a cave that has a strange form of life.If you read the reviews for this Jerry Warren film you'll see many of them calling this one of the worst movie ever made. I very much disagree with that and in fact, for a Warren film, it's actually pretty good. This here was the second film he directed after his debut MAN BEAST and in all honesty these two are the best that he ever would make. I've seen all of the films that Warren directed so perhaps that's why I feel this one here is pretty good considering where he would go from here.Obviously he was working on a very low-budget so instead of any real monsters or special effects we're treated to various bits of stock footage. This was obvious during the opening where the narrator is babbling on about stuff that has nothing to do with what we're seeing! From here the film continues to show its low-budget as we're told about the various dangers facing the people but we never actually see it. Instead we basically watch the actors sit around and talk about various bad things that could happen.Again, there's nothing remotely special about this film but at the same time there's no question that the movie is mildly entertaining if you've just got 66-minutes to kill and want to watch something mindless and rather pointless. For the most part Carradine and Clarke are both fun to watch and the rest of the supporting players at least hit their marks (there's a compliment). THE INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD features nothing scary or even good for that matter. It's a low-budget movie that probably played third or fourth at local drive-ins so go in with that in mind and you might have some mild entertainment.

soulexpress No, this is not about a planet whose entire population is scared. In fact, the title has nothing to do with the movie itself.Two men and two women descend into the sea in a diving bell designed by one Professor Wyman (John Carradine). Its support cable snaps, causing the bell to sink thousands of feet to the bottom (with no pressure problems). The explorers find an underwater world complete with breathable air and caves that glow in the dark (phosphorous, don' cha know). They meet a bug-eyed stranger with a Santa Claus beard, who claims to have been in the caves for 14 years following a shipwreck. The stranger takes a shine to one of the women and decides to kill the others so he can have her to himself. But before he can, the volcano above them erupts, killing the stranger in an avalanche of rock. Luckily, a second diving bell has been dispatched, whisking away the explorers to safety.My plot summary makes THE INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD sound far more interesting than it is. In fact, the movie is 64 minutes of relentless tedium. In between the occasional plot point, we're deluged with meaningless dialogue, a lot of which reflects the sexism and misogyny rampant in 1950s America. For example, when one of the women suggests they could help each other, the other woman says, "We don't need anyone's help—not with two men down here with us." We also get ponderous scenes of walking, fish-eating, water-drinking, and oh so much SCUBA diving. And there's no reason for the stranger to be here at all. His appearance is extraneous at best.Now, on to the technical flaws. What kind of a diving bell takes in no water when you open its hatch under the surface? Why is the bell's ceiling higher than Madison Square Garden's? What type of volcano produces breathable air? How did the stranger get to the underwater caves without diving gear? How did he mark time accurately enough to know he's been there for 14 years? How did the women swim to the second diving bell this far underwater with only street clothes on? And how did they manage to stay dry in the process?Along with Carradine, the other name actor here is Phyllis Coates, the first Lois Lane on the "Superman" TV show. Her character is bitter and angry and spends most of her time trading insults with the other woman. Just what we needed: something to make this an even less pleasant viewing experience.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- The Incredible Petrified World. 1957. Four adventurers descend to the depths of the ocean when the cable on their underwater diving bell snaps. The rest of their expedition, believing them to be lost, abandons hope of finding them. Exiting the diving bell, the party finds themselves in a network of underwater caverns. They encounter a shipwreck survivor. He tells them he has been there for 14 years and that there is no way out. The two men in the exploring party believe him only after a hike to a volcanic vent that supplies the caverns with oxygen. Meanwhile on the surface, Prof. Millard Wyman, (the elder scientist who designed the original failed diving bell) decides to try again to explore the depths of the ocean. He finds out that there is another diving bell in existence that is identical to the one that was lost.*Special Stars- John Carradine, Phyllis Coats, Robert Clarke, Sheila Noonan, Allen Windsor.*Theme- Human nature can conquer problems.*Trivia/location/goofs- B & W. Phyllis 'Superman's Lois Lane' Coates accepted the role of Dale Marshall as a favor to director Jerry Warren, who was a former boyfriend; the actress originally cast in the lead couldn't do it and Warren couldn't find anyone else in time. He convinced Coates to do it by telling her that the film would not be shown in California. However, after it was completed, she found out that Warren did indeed release the film in California, and she was told by at least one studio executive (at Columbia) that the film was so inferior and shoddy that the studio would not be hiring her again. On top of that, Warren never paid her. When the characters are trapped undersea in the diving bell, they simply leave by climbing up to a hatch, supposedly at the top of the bell. Such an action underwater would immediately flood the bell. Yet, not even a drop of water enters the bell when they exit.*Emotion- A waste of the viewer's time due to many problems with this cheap B-Movie. This movie has little to remember for it's lack of good drama, slow and boring pacing, predictable plot and lack of any monster or scenery. Don't bother, it's deadly dull.*Based on- Jules Vern's Journey to the Center of the Earth.