Review, buy Science Fiction & Fantasy: Creature From the Black Lagoon [1954] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Doctor Who - Pyramids of Mars [1975] [1963], The Mysterians [1957], The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Invitation Only, Godzilla's Revenge [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Doctor Who - Carnival Of Monsters [1973], Doctor Who - Spearhead from Space [1970] [1963], Doctor Who - The Five Doctors [1983], Teenagers from Outer Space [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Doctor Who - The Aztecs [1964], Doctor Who - The Tom Baker Years [1992], Doctor Who - The Daemons [1971], The Twilight Zone: Season 2 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bride of the Gorilla [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Confessions of a Psycho Cat [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Spirit of '76 [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Doctor Who - The Leisure Hive [1980], Earth vs. The Flying Saucers [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Twilight Zone - Rod Sterling's Lost Classics [Region 2] [import], The Woman Eater [1958] (NTSC)

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Review Universal Studios / Creature From the Black Lagoon [1954] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Creature From the Black Lagoon [1954] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Universal Studios)

Actors & Directors

Nestor Paiva
Richard Denning
Julie Adams
Jack Arnold
Richard Carlson
Antonio Moreno

Release date: 2007-07-24
Run time: 80 min.
Price: £7.43

Review Creature From the Black Lagoon [1954] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

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 Axmaker.

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