Highly Overrated But Still Good

Good concept, poorly executed.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

In a remote part of Greece, treasure hunters set off an explosion in a cave that rouses a huge invisible dinosaur, which had lain dormant for eons. Now it's awake, angry, and thinks nothing of using its claws to slash to death any person who crosses its path. The only warning its victims have is an eerie screech the monster emits (hence the title). It sounds like the set-up for a really stupid film, but SOUND OF HORROR confounded my expectations by not being all that bad. It's no classic, but given its obviously small budget and its very limited sets and costuming, the film could have been a whole lot worse.The set-up takes entirely too long (about a half-hour), to a point at which I repeatedly muttered, "Get on with it already." However, once the dinosaur got loose and began its rampage, I became genuinely curious as to how these people would defend themselves against an unseen enemy. They came up with some pretty creative ways, one of which involved emptying huge sacks of flour outside their house. Once the dinosaur made a footprint, the men threw hatchets at it, resulting in a shot of the weapons hanging in mid- air once they had hit their target.While the characters were as one-dimensional as you might expect, the actors who played them worked admirably with what little the script had given them. The dubbing was also reasonably well done, and I liked the plot twist at the end.When all is said and done, SOUND OF HORROR is the best invisible- dinosaur film I've ever seen.

The Sound of Horror is a mid-60s Spanish horror film set in Greece. Some men are looking for buried treasure after obtaining both halves of a secret treasure map which leads them to an old cave. After blowing up portions of the cave, they discover a mummy, a skeleton, and some semi-petrified dinosaur eggs. One of the eggs hatches to produce a transparent dinosaur-like monster which terrorizes the men and the ladies. Not content to stay in its cave, the monster roams around and attacks the cabin where the people are staying.The suspense factor is actually not bad, I'll give the suspense factor a six. The special effects are awful though. There are a couple of brief flashes of the monster (it looks like a plastic Godzilla model picked up at a discount toy store) and stop-motion effects to show the footprints of the monster walking through the flour. Finally, the monster shrieks sound like a person going "AAAAAHEEEAAAAAHH" and nothing more. Anyway the monster gets one star.The stunningly beautiful Soledad Miranda, however, gets a solid eight just for the Greek dancing and standing around looking so pretty. Overall, not bad, I give it a four.

I liked this movie although its not really scary at all, potentially it should have been. In some ways this movie reminded me a bit of the Kurt Russel version of the Thing. It has some of the same "what the heck is going on?" vibe that gradually overwhelms the characters. I really liked the originality of the screaming yet invisible monster. You hear it coming as it stomp stomp stomps along, then it makes these weird grunting noises and finally screams like a banshee...cool! There are some ideas here that could have really pushed this movie over the top...unfortunately the direction is really pretty weak and the cast brings nothing to their roles with the exception of hottie horror honey Ingrid Pitt, looking all sexy and sassy in her teased up hair and short shorts.It still manages to be interesting despite the shortcomings. One wonders though what might have been with more skillful direction, a little more money, and a couple of well known stars. Still, I'm not really complaining, I was digging this offbeat movie anyhow. I give it a six for the nice writing and Ingrid Pitt!! Lots of blood for an early sixties movie.

Professor Andre and a bunch of friends are searching a cave for a treasure from the days of Ancient Greece. What they find is much older than even that: a prehistoric monster, invisible (!) but stalking them day and night, uttering a horrible scream (see movie title). Everybody in this movie is heroic (although one coward type is what you'd expect for the genre), so the rest is almost a competition who can sacrifice himself first for the escape of the others.Even if it began a bit silly - I mean, the actors stand 5 meters away from the dynamite explosion and don't bother to take cover - it got better and better! The invisible enemy is quite effective, and the movie is old-fashioned in a positive sense, more like a horror classic from the 1930s than the 1960s. Good cast including the one and only Soledad Miranda, Ingrid Pitt of Hammer fame, plus experienced character actors such as Jose Bodalo ("Django") and Antonio Casas ("A Gun For Ringo").