Julie Adams, Richard Carlson, Richard Denning
Universal Pictures introduced audiences to yet another classic movie monster with this superbly crafted film, originally presented in 3-D. The story involves the members of a fossil-hunting expedition...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 28, 2001
Stats: 744 reviews
The Creature from the Black Lagoon is B-movie classic and also, the birth of the monster movie. I don?t mean monster as in King Kong or Godzilla, this is a different kettle of fish (excuse pun). Without Creature from the Black Lagoon you wouldn?t have Alien, Predator or many of t...( read more)
Universal were the pioneers of classy horror pictures in the golden age of the genre, and this Amazon adventure is perhaps their last great horror picture. The film follows many of the staples of previous Universal offerings, except this time the film doesn't follow an already es...( read more)
Universal's great monster of the 50's...has aged well, and it's not without it's flaws...but overall a good Friday Nite flick.
early horror that was way ahead of its time with the creature looking so realistic. shame about the lack of 3-D nowadays. always wondered what that'd be like. i liked the idea of the spray gun towards the end making the water cloudy and so making it harder to spot the creature wh...( read more)
"the creature" is the horror moster legend for the 50s audience....a prehistoric amphilain man obssessed with a beautiful swimmer while he tries to symbolically make love to her by imitating her poses in the water. another innovative archetype of "beauty and beast"....mostly the ...( read more)
One of the most memorable pre 60's horror films. I supose my love for it can be attributed to an eery halloween night about 12 years ago, but thats not the logic behind my rating. It's classic horror. The creature barely makes a sound the entire movie and Raines is screamin her h...( read more)
I got this for Christmas on VHS when I was 14. I have worn out the tape.
When I was a kid, I had a huge fascination with old horror/sci-fi movies, I used to check the TV guide and find when they were on and sneek out at 3 am to watch. Movies like the Blob, Dracula, Wolfman, etc.
Hugely different than most creature features today, these flicks ha...( read more)
A scientist studying in the Amazon finds an fossilized hand that looks both human and fish. Intent on finding the full fossil, he gathers a team to travel upriver to where they could have washed out. It turns out to be a living fossil as a gil-man starts picking off the members o...( read more)
This is a stylish and fun B-monster movie. Even today the underwater camera work looks great. I'd love to see this in the original 3D- that would be cool. Despite being a B-movie, it feels like it's at a level above most of it's contemporaries of the day. Check it out, it's a goo...( read more)
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