It’s difficult to know where to begin with this. It would be simple to dismiss it entirely; frankly, it's terrible – pretty much across the board. For reasons that aren’t obvious, it received a digital restoration in 2011, although whether it was ever properly “mastered” initially is questionable, and the process seems only to have worsened the already poor quality of production. A meteor crashes into the isolated ar…

William R. Stromberg wrote and directed “The Crater Lake Monster,” which came out in 1977, and it tells a story about what happens in the mountains of central California after a meteor hits a lake—a made-up one—and a prehistoric egg starts to grow there. That egg then hatches into something like a plesiosaur that causes problems for the people who live nearby. The movie’s name is misleading, because it doesn't act…