OK, we all know about “North By Northwest,” “Dances With Wolves,” and “National Treasure: Book of Secrets.” They were all filmed in the Black Hills and went on to critical acclaim and/or box office success.

But what about “Beast From Haunted Cave”?

Never heard of it? Neither had I. But the classic creature feature was filmed in Deadwood and at Terry Peak back in 1959. The beast’s cave is actually the Broken Boot Gold Mine between Deadwood and Central City.

You can see “Beast From Haunted Cave,” this weekend at the Homestake Opera House in Lead. Friday’s showing is at 7 p.m., and Saturday’s showing is 8 p.m. (I’m told costumes are encouraged.)

“Beast From Haunted Cave” is a low-budget B movie horror film. It was the directorial debut of Monte Hellman, who went on to direct such classics as “Silent Night, Deadly Night III” — about a knife-wielding psychopathic Santa Claus — and “Back Door to Hell,” starring his friend and collaborator Jack Nicholson.

And according to the IMDb website, Monte Hellman is still making movies. He’s currently working on “Road to Nowhere,” due out in 2010.

“Beast” is a horror/gangster/heist film starring Michael Forest, Frank Wolff, Richard Sinatra, and Sheila Carroll. It tells the story of bank robbers fleeing in the snow who run afoul of a beast that feeds on humans. The plot was recycled in Creature from the Haunted Sea released two years later.

While filming at Terry Peak, Hellman put uniforms and skis on the actors to shoot footage of skiing that was used in the television version of Roger Corman’s 1960 “Ski Patrol Attack.”

The tagline: “They Turned a White Hell Red with Enemy Blood!”

It’s possible that the tagline is better than the movie.