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* InformedSpecies: The monsters are given stubby legs and pincer jaws, making them look more like caterpillars with snail shells than like snails.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Louis Clark Dobbs, head of the Imperial County Museum. The man has genuinely useful knowledge pertaining several previously unknown waterways. However, he has a poor way of communicating, which comes across as strange to others.

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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Louis Clark Dobbs, head of the Imperial County Museum. The man has genuinely useful knowledge pertaining to several previously unknown waterways. However, he has a poor way of communicating, which comes across as strange to others.



* NightSwimEqualsDeath: Two lovers Morty and Jodie go swimming in the moonlight, and they soon disappear beneath the surface.

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* NightSwimEqualsDeath: Two lovers Morty and Jodie Jody go swimming in the moonlight, and they soon disappear beneath the surface.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Louis Clark Dobbs, head of the Imperial County Museum. The man has genuinely useful knowledge pertaining several previously unknown waterways. However, he has a poor way of communicating, which comes across as strange to others.
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* ItsAllMyFault: Upon learning that her daughter Jody is likely dead, Mrs. Simms has a complete breakdown. Crying as she loudly blames herself for her daughters' death.


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* MamaBear: Mrs. Simms is very protective of her daughter Jody. Sadly, this does not prevent Jody from becoming one of the giant mollusk's victims.
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** ...after [[IdiotBall reaching past]] a fire axe hanging on the wall shown in closeup. [[WhatAnIdiot Twice]].



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* NauseaFuel: The deaths shown on screen and the corpses they leave are rather sickening for a 50's monster movie.
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Little Sandy [[FreeRangeChildren has the run of the lab]], which nearly leads to disaster when she fiddles with the lab equipment to warm up some chilled rabbits.

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A giant monster film from 1957.

A string of disappearances happen on a lake in the middle of a desert. The culprits are revealed to be [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever giant mollusks]] that start rising up from the depths, and their upcoming numbers threaten the US Navy base nearby, and everything else beyond it.

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A giant monster film from 1957.

1957, directed by Arnold Laven and starring Tim Holt and Audrey Dalton.

A string of disappearances happen on a lake in the middle of a desert. The culprits are revealed to be [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever giant mollusks]] that start rising up from the depths, and their upcoming numbers threaten the US U.S. Navy base nearby, and everything else beyond it.
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A string of disappearances happen on a lake in the middle of a desert. The culprits are revealed to be [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever giant mollusks]] that start rising up from the depths, and their upcoming numbers threaten the US Navy base nearby, and everything else beyond it.

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A string of disappearances happen on a lake in the middle of a desert. The culprits are revealed to be [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever giant mollusks]] that start rising up from the depths, and their upcoming numbers threaten the US Navy base nearby, and everything else beyond it.

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A monster film from 1957.

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A giant monster film from 1957.
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** ...after [[WhatAnIdiot reaching past]] a fire axe hanging on the wall shown in closeup, twice.

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** ...after [[WhatAnIdiot [[IdiotBall reaching past]] a fire axe hanging on the wall shown in closeup, twice.closeup. [[WhatAnIdiot Twice]].
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** ...after [[WhatAnIdiot reaching past]] a fire axe hanging on the wall shown in closeup, twice.
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* NauseaFuel: The deaths shown on screen and the corpses they leave are rather sickening for a 50's monster movie.
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A science fiction film from 1957.

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A science fiction monster film from 1957.
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A science fiction film from 1957.

A string of disappearances happen on a lake in the middle of a desert. The culprits are revealed to be [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever giant mollusks]] that start rising up from the depths, and their upcoming numbers threaten the US Navy base nearby, and everything else beyond it.

!!This film has the examples of:

* AutopsySnackTime: After Twillinger questions the coroner about what he has learned from the drained corpses, he offers him and the sheriff a sandwich ("It's nice and cold"). Twillinger declines.
* EyeScream: One of the creatures attack Twillinger and company on their boat, and is driven off after it gets its eye poked out.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: Twillinger tries to get one creature's attention by throwing beakers at it. That fails, so he grabs a fire extinguisher.
* NightSwimEqualsDeath: Two lovers Morty and Jodie go swimming in the moonlight, and they soon disappear beneath the surface.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: Creatures' eggs are discovered in the bottom of the lake, and they all must be destroyed before they hatch.
* TouchOfTheMonster: Posters for the film had variations of scantily clad women in peril at the monsters' claws.

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