a meteor hit crater lake ( hence our title ) and awaken a plesiosaur and who proceed to snack on the hick population ( in california and that hick capital of the world . ) there bad movie and and then there the crater lake monster and which somehow manage to escape mst3k . feature grate acting and a decent stop motion beast and and more and this be a dreadful piece of 1970 low budget exploitation or monster movie dreck . while the movie be guilty of many crime and the big one be arnie and mitch and two obnoxious redneck who serve a our comic relief . they bumble around and fight to stock banjo music and ogle woman and and act like pathetic excuse of humanity . the character be so bad and they should count a a crime against humanity .