I was 8 years old when this french Icon put this movie in his weekly show, La Derniere Seance with the fabulous innovation of 3D glasses: the family had to buy a special magazine to have them blue and red with drawings of the creature and i think it's the 1st and last time i saw a 3D movie on national TV! Last night, when i watched it again, on strict BW, i wonder if i have ever watched it for real in 1982 because i didn't remember anything! Maybe the fossilized hand, the harpoon but except that, it was a complete black ... hole! The movie has a interesting beginning with Bible and Darwin meeting peacefully for one time! Overall, the movie is good with feelings of Spielberg movies like Jurassic Park but also Jaws! I was also thinking to the die hard fan, Arthur Adams: the main actress has the same name and the boat calls Rita! I was a bit disappointed to see that the creature has no really motives except to be disturbed or maybe in love (the mother protecting eggs was Star Trek) and a bit sad that the human attitude is to kill the other different. But the production and cast was very decent: honestly i don't find that this old and unknown (for me) cast of yesterday lacks of talent compared to today! So it's a good lesson to understand that we are actually brainwashed to believe in incredible performances that are really just flat, plain ordinary: in other words, we are sold pees as nuggets gold and watching those old classics keeps intact our love of true cinema. Back to Eddy thus!

Director Jack Arnold saved an otherwise monotonous B-horror with a few imaginative touches. An amphibious man-monster is discovered in an Amazonian lagoon by explorer Richard Carlson and covets Julia Adams.The characterisation is two-dimensional, the story plodding. But you forgive all of that for that single scene where the Creature swims underneath Adams, unaware of what's stalking her, in a surreal aquatic sexual ballet. It's quite uniquely Freudian. Elsewhere, the story only gets slightly more exciting when the hero confronts it in a hauntingly dank grotto.The film spawned two rudimentary sequels. By now Universal was branching more into science fiction - alien invaders and atomic mutations - and Arnold became the film-maker most sympathetic to this sub-genre.

Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954) Starring: Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva, Whit Bissell, Bernie Gozier, Henry A. Escalante, Sydney Mason, Perry Lopez, Rodd Redwing, Ricou Browning and Ben Champman Directed By: Jack Arnold Review FROM THE AMAZON'S FORBIDDEN DEPTHS CAME THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON Hello Kiddies your pal the crypt critic has returned! :) This time I'm even stronger than ever! This is a film that will make your ladies shriek because she will love this freak. A tale about forbidden love from an amphibious creature. Creature From The Black Lagoon tells the tale of an expedition team of marine biologists looking for the remainder of a fossil of a creature from the Devonian age. They come across an amphibious creature who traps them in the black lagoon so that can Kay's beast after just one look at her. The team have to find a way out before it's too late. The movie was made during the atomic age where people weren't necessarily frightened by the likes of Dracula, The Wolf-Man or Frankenstein's Monster. Universal went into production on the creature from the black lagoon which was inspired by a myth about a race of dangerous half-human, half-fish creatures living in the amazon river. It's a beautiful looking film, probably my favorite film in Black&White, I would love to see a remake someday but it has yet to come. They go for the King Kong, beauty&beast kind of story between the Creature and Kay. I don't blame him she was very beautiful, which is why he's my favorite of the universal monsters- a monster who has a heart full of love but is seen as hideous and just can't catch a break. The acting is pretty good, it was different time so they spoke different but it still holds up. Jack Arnold has done quite a few monster films I believe, this is probably the one most hold in high regard. What can I say that hasn't been said already Creature From The Black Lagoon, it holds up, has a great story and I just love this film. I'm giving Creature From The Black Lagoon a five out of five.

It is very many years since I last saw this film and I found myself braced for a slow and murky ride. Not so, at all and watching this on the big screen at my local cinema watched in wonder as all those iconic shots I've seen reproduced over the years came to life in stunning black and white. There is some chit chat and faux philosophising but nothing like as much as I had feared and the well told tale is quickly under way. The underwater sequences are very well done and when the creature mirrors our heroine in the water it is truly magical. I was surprised how good the creature looked in and out of the water, especially those claws, cleverly foreshadowed by the historic find at the start. I'm sure many in my audience were ready and waiting (and for some insane reason) wanting to laugh loudly but they got little opportunity. Clearly in situations like this one has to allow for the time when a film was made but here the dialogue stood up well and chances for mockery very few and far between. Action from the start, a costume change for Julie seemingly every scene and excellent water scenes with a great creature.