Written by James M. Tate / 6/19/2019 / No comments / creature , fifties , franchise , horror , jack arnold , julie adams , richard carlson , thriller , universal monster , william alland
WILLIAM ALLAND PRESENTS 'CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON'
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Part of a great foreign poster from the YEAR: 1954 |
As is the built-in suspense of completely vulnerable characters unaware of what's directly beneath them in the water, where humans have very little control in the first place. As for X-MEN: both that and CREATURE start out with an expository lecture on Evolution, with images... Only in this case it's oddly coupled with Creation, and... well.... back in those days, the Big Bang needed explaining for how that big fuse got lit..
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Signed by a Screen Queen SCORE: ***1/2 |
Visually aided by effective, non-gimmicky devices, like the Creature's hand moving slowly towards our ingenue's bare feet; or his slimy, formidable figure sleeking across a boat as viewed from an inside portal, there's far more going than creative camera angles and sudden jolts (backed by a thunderously trumpeting score)...
Even after the CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON i.e. The Creature i.e. The Gill-Man is captured, the image of him staring from a submerged cage is even more creepy and terrifying than when he's throwing grown men across the deck. Making him the most hauntingly subtle and ghoulishly effective of all Universal Monsters. For it's not only his movie, it's his territory, and he needn't take any prisoners. They simply showed up.
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The CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON captured but not forgotten |
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The better half of the french poster for CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON |
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