Top notch horror tale that has not lost it's appeal over time....quite shocking for it's time in the early 1950s when it was released...I was 10 years old when I saw it at the movie theater and how do you describe being scared that bad.....Universal had worn out the Frankenstein/Wolfman/Dracula genre in the 30s and 40s and Creature was a welcome addition to the Universal monster stable. The film became a smash hit when released in 1954 and every kid I knew back then was the "kreetch" when they went swimming anywhere trying to duplicate that twisting and turning side to side motion the creetch had.... The film was so successful it spawned two sequels, neither of which came anywhere near to being as good as the original..... The story was excellent - a half man - half fish being discovered in the ruins of the amazon jungle.....all the creetch wanted to do was be left alone but alas a team of scientists had other ideas. The creature is a very elusive monster to say the least and spears, rotonol, and bullets could not rein in him for the most part. When captured the creetch reacted in his own way - showing the beast that he was but not doing anything else except trying to escape. The creetch had a yearn for love also as he stalked the beautiful Julia Adams throughout the film and tried to win her over in the end. But alas beauty killed the beast and the creetch went to a subteranian grave at the end. This is a monster you had a heart for....somehow I wanted the creetch to escape and torment his attackers......for a small part of the film he did just that. Still one of the top all time monster movies.....a classic.
Review of Creature from the Black Lagoon
