Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 29
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 5
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Critic Reviews: 3
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 1
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Universal Pictures introduced audiences to yet another classic movie monster with this superbly crafted film, originally presented in 3-D. The story involves the members of a fossil-hunting expedition down a dark tributary of the mist-shrouded Amazon, where they enter the domain of a prehistoric, amphibious "Gill Man" -- possibly the last of a species of fanged, clawed humanoids who may have evolved entirely underwater. Tranquilized, captured, and brought aboard, the creature still manages to
Mar 5, 1954 Wide
Aug 28, 2001
Universal Pictures
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Cast
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Richard Carlson
David Reed -
Julie Adams
Kay Lawrence -
Richard Denning
Mark Williams -
Antonio Moreno
Carl Mala -
Nestor Paiva
Lucas -
Whit Bissell
Edwin Thompson -
Bernie Gozier
Zee -
Henry Escalante
Chico -
Ben Chapman
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Perry Lopez
Tomas -
Sydney Mason
Dr. Matos -
Rodd Redwing
Louis -
Ricou Browning
Gill-Man (in water)
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Jack Arnold has a flair for this sort of thing, and if there really is anything frightening about a man dressed up in a rubber suit with zippers where the gills ought to be, Arnold comes close to finding it.
Top CriticThis adventure has no depth.
The routine story is mightily improved by Arnold's sure sense of atmospheric locations and by the often sympathetic portrait of the monster.
What distinguished Jack Arnold's pictures from mutant spinoffs/knockoffs is even more imperative to sci-fi today than it was in 1954: wonderment.
The beats of the film are like overused sandpaper, too worn down and tattered to have more than a passing effect.
Like Silly Putty, Super 8 is silly fun. It stretches, snaps, and bounces. It's as elastic as pubescent imagination.
Imbued with great atmosphere by director Jack Arnold, the film is genuinely frightening, but also elicits a certain amount of pathos for the creature.
The underwater sequences were excellently shot by Havens, and the make-up for the half man, half fish was a masterful creation by Bud Westmore and Jack Keven.
Very neat
As directed by Jack Arnold, the film suffers from silly stretches of dialogue and wooden acting, but the underwater footage is still beautiful, and Adams radiates a strong, sexy screen presence.
Creepy underwater horror flick. Ahead of its time.
Incluindo um curioso subtexto ecológico, o filme envelheceu bem: pode até não assustar como na época de seu lançamento, mas continua interessante.
Great monster suit. Not much of a movie
One of the best of the 1950's creature features. (By a long shot.)
Tremendous chilling fun, whether in 3-D or no. And Julia Adams is still hot in that swimsuit.
Its solitary aim was to exploit the viewer's fear of the unknown.
Cool creature!
This is still a decent movie and a good example of the monster movie genre.
The technical material is so good, in fact, that if you might actually like the movie... if you can ignore everything else.
[A] B movie classic.
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