Ready?

This is the first disk in the series. It is possibly one of the worst movies ever made. There are two possible reasons for this choice:

They believe that everything that follows, which isn’t as dreadful, will seem better when compared to this stinking bag of cinematic offal, or

The rest of the disks in the series are blank, because they believe that everyone will simply give up on the entire package.

Or they don’t care. Yes, that’s it. They don’t care. This is the sort of movie you slip in the end of the series, or the middle, not RIGHT UP FARGIN’ FRONT.

Maybe they think people will assume it must be good, because it contains a Carradine:

John Carradine did over 225 movies - or, to put it another way, he made 224 movies better than this one. He plays a scientist who's developed a new kind of diving bell.

It's really high-tech:

I should add that before we get to the exciting diving sequence, there'a about five minutes of stock footage of underwater life forms, while a voice-over describes the strange marvels of the deep. Has nothing to do with the film. Well, the bell is lost, and this leads to a grim scene on the ship:

You can tell it's a ship because it has a porhole. One of those high-ceiling ships, it seems. Anyway, the people from the diving sphere get out and find a big cave. It's filled with monsters. Horrible, horrible monsters! (Video; mouse over for controls if not apparent.)

That's about all you need to know, right there. Well, it goes on and on, as the explorers walk through caves somehow bright enough to cast shadows:

Nice hair; I guess wearing a scuba cap doesn't give you hat-hair, as some insist. What's the letter say?

You really hope the plot isn't going to turn on that letter. Eventually, they find there's someone else down there, a moment of such unimaginable horror it seems to drive the leader of the expedition mad with fear.

Just kidding: he think's it's hilarious!

Back on land, the perfesser goes to a rival diving bell company, which has designs based on the perfesser's brother's work, which is based on - oh, never mind. You can tell these are complex matters of the highest technological levels:

Another diving bell is sent down to rescue them - after the longest montage of "guys in the lab staring at test tubes" in movie history - then a volcano explodes, and they're safe.

Things that are not in the Incredible Petrified World:

A petrified world

Anything incredible

An incredible world

An incredible petrified world

And that's the start of the list.

Hey, it can only get better! See you next week.