Creature from the Black Lagoon Reviews
October 13, 2020
Along comes one of those tedious, topeed expeditions, in a battered white boat, and the "Gill-Man" is chased, photographed, speared, half-asphyxiated, and screamed at. No wonder he commits murder (five of them).
October 13, 2020
The boys at Universal were on a fanciful binge, putting on an enjoyable show in the water, something less in dry-dock.
October 13, 2020
A prehistoric man shaped fish falls in love with screaming Julia Adams in an Amazon backwater, but his courtship is a failure. So is the movie.
October 13, 2020
There are some effective underwater scenes; otherwise script and direction are commonplace.
October 16, 2011
The beats of the film are like overused sandpaper, too worn down and tattered to have more than a passing effect.
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| Original Score: 2/5
October 31, 2006
This adventure has no depth.
August 7, 2002
Great monster suit. Not much of a movie
Original Score: 2/5
November 30, 2001
Its solitary aim was to exploit the viewer's fear of the unknown.
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| Original Score: C
January 1, 2000
The technical material is so good, in fact, that if you might actually like the movie... if you can ignore everything else.
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| Original Score: 2/5