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'Beast from Haunted Cave'

'59 Hills-filmed movie to be shown at Homestake Opera House

LEAD, S.D. (10/26/09) -- The classic Black Hills-filmed horror movie, "The Beast From Haunted Cave," will have a speical showing Friday and Saturday at the Homestake Opera House in Lead. Costumes are encouraged, organizers said.

This movie was made in 1959 and was filmed in Deadwood and at Terry Peak. The "Cave" is actually the Broken Boot Gold Mine. "Beast" is a "B" and "low budget" movie, and it's fun to see the footage of Deadwood and Terry Peak from 1959.

The movie is a horror/gangster/heist film directed by Monte Hellman and starring Michael Forest, Frank Wolff, Richard Sinatra, and Sheila Carroll. It tells the story of bank robbers fleeing in the snow who run afoul of a beast that feeds on humans. The plot was recycled in Creature from the Haunted Sea released two years later.

The film crew also used leftover footage from "Beast" and simultaneously filmed the same cast for another film, "Ski Troop Attack," which features a battalion of American soldiers battling Nazis in the snow-covered mountains of Germany.
 
"Beast From Haunted Cave" will be shown Halloween weekend at the Historic Homestake Opera House on Friday, Oct. 30, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 31, at 8 p.m. Cost is $5 for adults and $3 for students under 12.

The event is sponsored by the Historic Homestake Opera House, Historic Deadwood-Lead Arts Council and the Deadwood Historic Preservation Office. For more information, please contact 584-1461.

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