Creature from the Black Lagoon

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) – Movie Review

Director: Jack Arnold

Screenwriter/s: Harry Essex, Arthur A. Ross, Maurice Zimm 

Producer: William Alland

Studio: Universal 

Production Companies: Universal

Top Billed Cast: Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva, Whit Bissill

LOGLINE: A group of scientific explorers encounter an Amphibious Humanoid in the deepest unexplored reaches of the Amazon.


VIEWING CIRCUMSTANCES: At home, by myself in 3 sittings over the space of about a week or so.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Wow, what's with the soundtrack? Talk about subtle as a sledge hammer. There's an old adim for making good movies 'show don't tell', well this film tries to tell through music when little else is doing. Other than that - not too bad

STORY: It's less eventful and suspenseful than I expected.

PRODUCTION: I haven't seen too many 50s horror flicks so I don't have a whole lot I can compare too. What I can say is this though, the editing is slow. The costume of the creature isn't shabby.

PERFORMANCE: The best aspect of the film.

OVERALL: Not bad. Worth a watch.

MEETSLINE: This film is in the meetsline of Jaws.

FAVOURITE QUOTE: none.


RECOMMENDED ACCOMPANIMENT: Lagoon Creature.

RATING:

3 out of 5 reels of film.

Movie Review by A.B. McBlogsmith the Backwards Cap Film Reviewer

(C) Review Flix 2011