 Who else would have dared?Sometimes his quirky cantos got rewritten, but it was impossible to subvert their essentially subversive character.His zany script for Corman's Puerto Rican lark CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA is the reason why it's the closest thing to a Thomas Pynchon novel ever to appear on the screen... and Griffith pulled it off years before the first edition of V. hit bookstore shelves.