Cheryl Ladd in Evil in the Deep (1976)

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Alright. Which of the following two movies would you want to see?

Movie 1: A group of bungling idiots (although they’re most certainly not supposed to be bungling idiots…) goes in search of a sunken Spanish galleon (how many of those things sank, anyhow?) which is supposedly loaded with gold. Naturally, in spite of the fact that they’re in the open ocean, they have a map (turn left at that next wave?) which doesn’t help them much, yet they fight with “The Bad Guys” for it. Everyone is pretty and spends their entire time in bathing suits of some ilk. The Good Guys win the day.

Movie 2: Cheryl Ladd gets naked.

Seeing as the second movie doesn’t fucking exist, you’re just going to have to settle on the first one, which just-so-happens to be Evil in the Deep. I think this might be the worst movie of all time… really!

The plot is ridiculous, so I won’t go into it much other than to say that it’s completely trite and predictable. The movie is from 1976, so I guess audiences back then wanted such mindless fare… there seemed to be a lot of that sort of thing going around back in the day. The direction by Virginia L. Stone (who went on to a whole Hell of a lot of nothing…) is completely uninspired, to the point where I don’t even think she yelled “Action.” I seriously doubt that she was even there.

And the acting? Don’t even get me started… Ladd, who shows up here as Cheryl Stoppelmoor (why, I don’t know… Her husband David Ladd is also a major player in the film… didn’t she want to be associated with him?) is about as convincing as “Zappy” as anyone, I suppose, if “Zappy” is supposed to be a completely lifeless, emotion-free being, sort of like “Spock” on Star Trek… Stephen Boyd is equally-awful, as is everyone else in the cast. And no one gets naked. No one. Talk about a waste of celluloid. This movie is simply awful. I think an “F--” would be generous…

Nudity Report: NONE

IMDb Summary: 2.7/10


Written by: Vance Moravian