The Creature From The Black Lagoon

Jack Arnold, USA 1954, 79 minutes

An American scientific expedition to the Amazon discovers there is something in the black lagoon; namely the gill-man. This find proves to have an unnatural (?) interest in the token female member of the expedition...

Not the most literate script ever but what do you expect? This is a monster movie after all. Still there's doubtless a serious subtext in there for you to justify watching Creature - if you're sad enough to need to find one.

We are particularly pleased to present the film in its original, headache inducing, 3D version (glasses provided!). Sadly though Jack Arnold wasn't one to throw in things-coming-out-of-thescreen sequences just for the sake of it, in either It Came from Outer Space (brilliant title!) or Creature. The film does have some nice underwater photography though because the gill-man costume didn't have any room for scuba apparatus, actor/stuntman Ricou Browning had to hold his breath underwater for up to four minutes at a time!

B movie classic.

Review by Keith H Brown
Taken from EUFS Programme 1997-98