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5.0 out of 5 stars
A very good collection of one of the best horror films., August 8, 2001
This review is from: Classic Creature Collection [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Creature From The Black Lagoon, From universal In this trend-setting classi, a scientific expedition ventures into the upper reaches of the Amazon and discovers a "Gill Man," a living amphibious missing link. The scientists drug and capture the creature, who enamored with the head scientist's female assistant (Julia Adams). But the lonely creature escapes and kidnaps the object of his affection while she swims seductively in his watery home. The chief scientist (Richard Carlson) launches a crusade to retrieve his assistant and casts the creature from the black to the black depths from which he came from. Well-acted and directed, and with Bud Westmore's brilliantly designed monster, Creature From The Black Lagoon is an enduring tribute to the imaginative genius of it's Hollywood creators.
Revenge Of The Creature, From Universal The Creature From the Black Lagoon "resurfaces" when he is captured in his Amazonian hom by a team of researchers and transported to a holding tank in a Florida marine park. Once imprisoned, the "Gill Man" becomes the subject of crude and cruel experiments conducted by his supposedly superior human captors. But the tormented creature begins to emerge as a hauntingly beatiful alien, and a female researcher (Lori Nelson) forms an uneasy emotional link with him, as her own doubts about career vs. motherhood parallel the Creature's feelings of alienation and confinement. Soon they are both driven to break free of their respective "prisons" with exciting results. Revenge of the Creature is full of surprises, not the least of which is Clint Eastwood in his first screen appearance as a technician who has trouble holding onto a laboratory mouse.
Sorry I have not yet seen the third film.
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