Creature From the Black Lagoon [VHS]
by Jack Arnold
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Actor: Antonio Moreno, Julie Adams, Nestor Paiva, Richard Carlson, Richard DenningDirector: Jack Arnold
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Release Date: 1992-03-01
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Publisher: Universal Studios
Studio: Universal Studios
VHS Movie Reviews of Creature From the Black Lagoon [VHS]
Movie Review: The Creature remembered
Summary: 5 Stars
i was so glad to find this on DVD, it was just as I had remembered it from some years back. It's good to see the old classics without all the fancy computer generated effects, it makes you appreciate how difficult it was to produce films during that time.
Summary of Creature From the Black Lagoon [VHS]
Jack Arnold's horror classic The Creature from the Black Lagoon spawned not one but two iconic images: the web-footed humanoid gill-man with a hankering for women and the leggy, luscious Julia Adams, the object of his desire, swimming the lagoon in a luminous white bathing suit. Not since King Kong has the "beauty and the beast" theme been portrayed in such sexually charged (though chaste) terms. Arnold turns an effectively B-movie plot--a small expedition up a remote Amazon river captures a prehistoric amphibian man, who escapes to wreak havoc on the team and kidnap his bathing beauty--into a moody, stylish, low-budget feature. The jungle exteriors turn from exotic to treacherous when the creature blocks their passage and strands them in the wilds. Much of the film is shot underwater, where the murky dark is animated by shimmering shards of sunlight, creating images both lovely and alien (the studio-built sets of the creature's underground lair are far less naturalistic, but serve their purpose). As with most of Arnold's '50s genre films, he's saddled with a less than magnetic leading man (in this case the colorless but stalwart Richard Carlson) and a conventional script, but he overcomes such limitations by creating a vivid and sympathetic monster (helped immeasurably by a marvelous suit of scales and fins) and establishing a mood thick with atmosphere. The film was originally shot in 3-D. --Sean AxmakerCult Movies VHS Video
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