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She turned a corner and decided to try her luck on a different floor. She climbed up the stairs and paused once she reached the top. Her ears perked up as she heard footsteps approaching. Karen turned in shock, her heart nearly jumping out of her chest. She breathed a sigh of relief as she saw Jane, the tall red head standing in front of her. These… these pig-men, they were all over Ann, that poor girl.
Considering that this film is considered a trend-setter, it's amazing how many rules this film BREAKS by today's standards. It breaks the notion that full shots of the creature and lots of blood and violence are needed to create a scare.
In this film, all you need is a shot of the creature's hand and that piercing three-note musical motive played by brass instruments, and let the imagination fill in the blanks. And it proves that black-and-white photography can be just as rich as color photography.
The underwater sequences especially are both beautiful almost surreal and eerie at the same time. And then there is the Gill Man himself. It's as if the writers took the best qualities of his predecessors and combined them into the last and best IMHO of the Universal monsters. Like The Mummy, he has lived long after he technically should have died; like Frankenstein's monster, he appears to be savage, yet shows intelligence and appreciates beauty; like Dracula, he is seductive. Just check out the scene where he swims with Julie Adams unbeknownst to her, of course. I believe this is why he has achieved the status of a genuine icon, and deservedly so.
Here's hoping he swims the waters for a long time. A classic for its day. Plot concerns a rouge swamp beast Ricou Browning and Ben Chapman sweating it out in the decent monster suit who falls for what else? Those who remember stepping into the drive-way while the weird eerie music played on the opening black-and-white titles brings a sudden memory of being a wee bit scared if that rubber monster you now find cheesy so much nowadays. Originally released in a 3-D. There are Spoilers Finding embedded in a rock, along the Amazon River in Brazil, what looks like a over-sized catchers mitt Prof.
Carl Maia, Antono Morero, feels that he made the rock-hard discovery or the century: This discovery can be the the very first link to what turned out to become the human race. Getting an expiation together and going into the uncharted, and undiscovered, Amazon Basin Prof. Maia together with a crew of scientists lead by Dr. Mark Williams, Richard Dennings,get to his campsite. There they find that his two Indian guides were butchered by some strange monster from the deep.
It turns out that this creature has been living in the lagoon for millions of years without any contact with the outside world. Now that his domain had been invaded and disturbed he's out for blood and won't stop until all those who trespassed into his kingdom, the Black Lagoon, are eliminated. The "Gillman" at first is a bit confused of what's happening and just goes out in the water to observe what the humans are doing. When it becomes obvious that their out to get him,dead or alive, and bring him back to civilization, as the scientific find of the century, he goes bananas and sets out to attack and kill everyone on board the science ship Rtia.
The Gillman has just one weakness, he gets distracted by the beautiful assistant of Dr. Williams Kay Julie Adams whom the Gillman, or creature, wants to keep alive all for himself as a playmate as well as a mate. Williams wants to go as far as killing the creature the sensitive second-in-command of the expiation Dr.
David Reed, Richard Carlson, is dead set against it. Reed wants to leave the creature alone and just bring back photographic proof that he exists. This causes great friction between the two explorers. The creature meanwhile barricades the Rita into the Black Lagoon by blocking the exit route ,with logs and tree branches. Setting up the movie's finale conflict between man and beast or creature. The creature goes on the attack killing a number of Rita crewmen and almost rips Dr. Thompson's Whit Bissell , another member of the expiation, face off Later the creature is put to sleep with the underwater knock-out drug Rotenone that Dr.
Reed sprays in his face in a tense and deadly underwater encounter. Put in an underwater cage, on the Rita, the creature easily breaks out, after the effects of the drug wears off. Goes back into attack mode the creature has it out in an underwater battle royal with both Dr. Williams who he ends up killing. By dragging him down to the bottom of the lagoon and cutting off his air supply.
The creature finally gets what he's been after all along, Julie, by boarding the Rita and snatching her up, while everyone else on board is looking the other way. In the end the effects of the Rotenone and a number of spear-gun wounds have taken the wind out of "The Gillman", or creature. After taking Julie to his secret hideout or "pad", an underground cave, the creature just about had it staggering along the shore, like a drunk, and plopping into the river with David and the crew of the Rita letting him get away.
Eye-popping underwater photography makes the movie "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" one of the best horror films released in the 's. The Gillman does return in two more sequels, " Revenge of the Creature" in and "The Creature Walks Among Us" in , until he was finally put out to pasture, or sea, by the Universal Pictures Studios. Coventry 18 August I think the creature movies from the 30's and 40's were absolutely great, but the 50's have something extra in my humble opinion.
The most lovable monster movies were made during this decade and Creature from the Black Lagoon belongs to the absolute top! My father keeps asking me why I show so much interest in movies that were made before even HE was born.
Every single monster movie from this period gives me the shivers. Creature from the Black Lagoon is part of the great Universal collection. It's almost half a century old, but it still hasn't lost a single bit of magic and the impression that it makes on people is still amazing. Carl Maia is on a scientific expedition somewhere deep in the jungle, near the Amazone river.
He and his team find a fossil of something that appears to be a man-fish. The thing is a hand with gills. To find the rest of this extraordinary body he seeks help and finds it by other respected scientists: Mark Williams and Kay Lawrence. Together the travel to the place where Dr. Maia found the fossil. It seems that his crew got killed and it looks like they're about to find much more than just a fossil! There still is a living fish-creature living in the legendary Black Lagoon.
Soon the scientific expedition changes into a battle to come out alive of the Black Lagoon The location of the Black Lagoon really is one of the most breath-taking settings I've ever seen. The images of the wild, unknown jungle and the horrible noises of the animals makes you feel like your in the jungle yourself. The acting performances are outstanding and there's even a little room for comedy in this film.
The character of Lucas captain of the ship "Rita" breaks the tension from time to time by saying very funny things. The actress who plays Kay is one of the most beautiful woman who ever came on the black and white screen Her name is Julie Adams and she played in a lot of good old-fashioned westerns like "The man from the Alamo" I recommend you check her out This guy certainly knows what he's doing. He's also the one who gave us "Tarantula", another great 50's monster film worth checking out. This film received 2 sequels. I haven't seen the second one the Creature walks among us but I can surely recommend the first sequel, which was also directed by Arnold.
The only think that got lost was the tense atmosphere. I was thrilled by this movie as a kid, and still love it today. It's well paced, well acted, has great music to accompany the action, and Bud Westmore's Gill Man is a marvel to enjoy. Originally this was a 3-D movie, and thankfully, it looks so much better in regular flat screen. I never really did catch the 3-D craze. This is a terrific adventure of Man out of his element fighting a Monster in his element. The Gill Man is a thinking being, but, still a monster, who remembers the injuries done him by man and seeks retribution. If the scientists had left him alone, he'd have left them alone.
They were the invaders. And, thank goodness that they didn't have a scene of the kidnapped Julia making friends with the now "peaceful" Gill Man to show his human side , only to have the heroes show up and kill him. She was taken as "bait" to lure the humans into the Gill Man's lair. It spawned two sequels yes, there were sequels even back then , and both are good in their own right, they just didn't achieve what the original did all the way around. MisterWhiplash 28 October Creature from the Black Lagoon is an example of a genre picture that is considered part of the Universal Monsters canon, and hey, it's the studio, it's their monster, they can do what they will though to me it's akin to Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction being considered as part of the 'Movie Brats' pack of movies, it's a little too after-the-fact but I can see why they fit, but I digress.
It's actually the movie that bridges those two seminal "creature" features, though what it does have in common with the other Universal films is that it is immeasurably influential. Not simply to Jaws, but to so many, many B monster movies Corman certainly produced a few, with titles that seem like Mad Libs from this one , and while so many of them are crap that's not Jack Arnold's fault.
He and his crew and cast made an above average, at times even moving, story of an exploratory group looking for fossils going to the Amazon jungle and, after finding a couple of people have already been killed, go a little further to find the Lagoon of the title I think the 'Black' part makes the whole title, without it it doesn't pop out I should add.
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What everyone else did after the fact was to either do less, on par, or, in Spielberg's case, better. But the original is still a very good example of what can be done with a script that doesn't treat its audience like total idiots - or, to put it another way, it may primarily be of entertainment for kids and younger viewers, or those simply looking for an adventure story that has major horror and fantasy overtones no, not overtones, it's submerged like we're IN the water, aren't we - and the actors aren't all stiff boards like in other 50's sci-fi schlock.
I might have a slight fault in how Carlson and Denning David and Mark respectively, our two main male characters look too much alike and that it's not until halfway through the film that I could tell them apart, but they are both good actors performing as well as they can, and Julie Adams, aside from also being convincing and a good screamer, is a sensational sight frankly hey, I'm a warm-blooded guy, she's gorgeous, especially in the bathing suit, albeit that is one of the few moments logic seems to be not there, like, why is she even swimming after they've already seen those other guys dead in the tent but, eh, whatever.
What matters just as much as the players, if not more, is the underwater photography which was, I'd have to think, fairly revolutionary for the time there's a separate unit credited for directing and shooting it , and the Creature itself. If any performer should have ever received a special Oscar or something for simply stunt-swimming, Ricou Browning would be that performer. I give a little extra boost to this rating, perhaps nearing classic status, for the final five minutes.
What seems to already be wrapping up in a satisfying way - we have to think the Creature will make one final stand against this band of people, and he does, despite being pumped through the gills no pun intended of some substance that's supposed to make him tired it doesn't, but oh well - turns into something Gothic and terrifying and the cinematography gets amped with darker contours and imagery Adams on the rock layed out by the monster laying in wait that is wholly striking and heart-racing.
It's the kind of ending that I wish more filmmakers took to heart as a way to take what is already a strong story and characters and atmosphere and take it to iconic status. I've noticed that some of the reviewers that hated this actually love to watch it. I have to separate the different levels of like and dislike with a film like this.
That's a word that popped up several times, Yes it was cheesy, but lovable. Less than stellar acting? Like one reviewer said, "They don't make em like this any more". I'm glad they don't.
It was an era in film making that has passed and I appreciate films like this because they exemplified a time when we weren't very sophisticated. I'm happy to have grown up in a time like that, and that's why I watch movies like this one. Sophistication isn't all it's cracked up to be. A group of scientists heads up an Amazonian river in search of the fossilized remains of an unknown link between man and aquatic life. But the team of researchers gets more than they bargained for when they encounter a living example of their prehistoric Gill-Man.
After a member of their party is killed, the group decides it best to leave the Black Lagoon. But the creature has become enamored with Kay Julie Addams , the only female on the expedition, and blocks the scientist's retreat. Will they escape the Creature from the Black Lagoon?
As I think back to the late 60s, Creature from the Black Lagoon is one of the very first movies I can remember seeing. Its appeal to me was immediate and long lasting. The scenes of the creature's hand reaching up on the shore of the lagoon sent chills down my spine.
And the four note musical introduction to the first images of the creature very nearly knocked me off the couch.