In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.
Unfortunately the movie Varan the Unbelievable is not yet available on Disney Plus.
| Visual Effects | Eiji Tsuburaya | Visual Effects |
| Directing | Jerry A. Baerwitz | Director |
| Directing | Koji Kajita | Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Robert O'Dell | Costumer |
| Sound | Peter Zinner | Music Editor |
| Directing | Leonard Kunody | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Margaret Lawrence | Script Supervisor |
| Crew | Eiji Tsuburaya | Special Effects |
| Editing | Jack Ruggiero | Supervising Film Editor |
| Sound | Victor B. Appel | Sound Mixer |
| Production | Tomoyuki Tanaka | Producer |
| Writing | Ken Kuronuma | Story |
| Writing | Sid Harris | Screenplay |
| Sound | Kurt Hernfeld | Sound Effects Editor |
| Writing | Shinichi Sekizawa | Screenplay |
| Art | Sam Harris | Property Master |
| Costume & Make-Up | Robert Cowan | Makeup Artist |
| Camera | Jacques R. Marquette | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Rudolph Cusumano | Editor |
| Production | Jerry A. Baerwitz | Producer |
| Directing | Ishirō Honda | Director |
| Sound | Albert Glasser | Music |
| Sound | Akira Ifukube | Music |