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.

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.

kai ringler this wasn't a bad movie at all, although I wouldn't have put it in the horror packaging as Wal Mart did. starring John Carradine who didn't have a lot of screen times.. this movie is about a diving bell that breaks loose from the chains, and falls to the bottom of the sea, but as luck would have it ,, it got stuck on a shelf of some sorts, in a deep dark dank cave with a volcano not to far from it,, 2 men and 2 women must fight to stay alive and find a way out,, an old man shows up about half way thru the picture claiming to have been living there now for 14 years,, he takes a liking to one of the women, just as the action is starting to heat up with a volcano exploding,, interesting movie,, I love the opening credits where all you see is the monstrous waves from the ocean,, but I didn't care for the narration at the beginning of the film.

bkoganbing The Incredible Petrified World is a place where four undersea explorers find themselves when their diving bell cable snaps and the bell is dragged into an undersea cavern which is lit by phosphorous and the pressure is tolerable. What to do the four which consist of Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates, Allen Windsor and Sheila Noonan, but make the best of it and look for a way out. Fresh air is coming in from somewhere.It turns out they're not alone, there's 3/4 crazy hermit down there played by Maurice Bernard who has plans, especially for Coates. Not that he would want her for long because the former Lois Lane from Superman is acting like a real diva.Getting first billing in this film is John Carradine and the producers and Carradine missed a bet here. Carradine who with his classical stage training enlivened many a ghastly bad horror film with that fabulous speaking voice should have played the hermit. He has a few scenes as the inventor of the diving bell in which the four were exploring in. By not doing that casting, The Incredible Petrified World was left just crashingly boring instead of being camp.