Revenge of The Creature (1955) Starring: John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva, Grandon Rhodes, Dave Willock, Robert Williams, Charles Cane, Clint Eastwood, and Brett Halsey Directed By: Jack Arnold Review Hello kiddies your pal the Crypt-Critic here, now here's an amazing creature feature sequel, probably even so good we'll need to get revenge on Hollywood for not making enough of these types of movies. In this sequel the creature from the black lagoon is captured by scientists and transported to an aquarium in Florida. Professor Clete Ferguson has opted to help the aquarium keep a hold of Gillman while studying the creature. Helping him is Helen who is a college student also looking to study the creature. The Creature is obviously attracted to Helen and one day grabs her and breaks out and unleashes his rage upon the land in the name of love. I just really enjoy this film its a lot more fun for me. This film was made to capitalize on the success of the original film. Its the same kind of fun creature feature sequel you would come to expect out of this monster. The gillman has more screen time which is cool it's always expected to see more of the monster or killer in sequels. The acting is quite good, acting was a lot different then but that's just cause time was different either way for what it was it was amazing. This film is one of the best sequels and would be the forefront (I believe in many horror sequels) I'm giving Revenge of The Creature a five out of five.

I actually like this second film a little better than the first 1954 film, 'Creature from the Black Lagoon'. To me, the characters are a little better developed and a bit more likable in 'Revenge'. (It' just a matter of personal preference).My heart went out to Gill-man in both films, but this second film I felt more pity for him. He just wanted to be left alone in the amazon but they captured him and brought him to an aquarium where he can became an attraction and to be studied. They are better equipped in this second film to "study" him but their form of "study" is too much for the poor creature and he escapes the aquarium.This film is a bit creepy, lots of underwater action where you fear for the lives of the humans yet pity the Gill-man at the same time. A good sequel.9/10

I am a giant Universal monster nerd (you should see my toy collection) and my favorite of the monsters has always been the Gill Man. Not necessarily my favorite of the movies, mind you, but there has always been something really special about this creature to me. Part of it is the impressive creature effects in the design of the monster. It still really holds up today, in my opinion, more so than any other Universal monster. In fact, I would argue that it still looks better than some creature designs I see in modern b-horror movies. I think the other part of the creature's appeal is his tragic nature. This is a monster that I have always felt more sympathy than fear. Let's face it, the poor thing was living content in its' own little private lagoon, when along comes some scientists to study it and try to capture it, eventually trying to kill it. Now it gets dragged away from its' home and put in a tiny little aquarium for all to see. It's no wonder the thing goes violent.As the creators have admitted to in the past, a large part of the inspiration of this series comes from KING KONG. You have the idea of an exotic monster from a foreign land falling in love with a beautiful woman that ultimately leads to its' demise. In the first movie, this idea plays out in theme. In the sequel here, we get the rest of the KING KONG plot as the monster is brought to the states to become an attraction.Sadly, this sequel is just nowhere near the quality of the original movie and mostly doesn't even make for a mediocre sequel. We begin with a repeat of things that happened in the first movie. Scientists go to the lagoon to capture the monster, only this time they are successful. We get one small "fright" scene, but there is very little tension or buildup to the moment of capture.Once brought to Ocean Harbor park, the movie drags on for a good hour. At this point, very little happens. We get a boring, clichéd 50s movie romance between our two scientists. We get the prerequisite sci-fi mumbo jumbo as our scientist perform experiments and discuss theories, part of which involves torturing our monster to get him to learn the word "stop" (a plot device that goes nowhere because the monster simply chooses to ignore anyways). The most exciting part of this segment of the movie may be the extended MarineLand commercials where we watch the park animals perform. Mercifully, the monster finally escapes which only goes further to ruining this movie. We've already seen too much of the monster, taking away some of the mystery. The creature moving on land makes it look awkward and further serves to take away any fear of the creature. Naturally, he's after the object of his affection, which leads to pretty much an exact repeat of the final moments in the original, only this time played out with police involved.I will give some credit for one moment. Two teens discover our leading lady lying onshore in need of rescue, but the monster is not far behind. He kills one of them by throwing him a good 15 feet against a tree. The body flies through the air (obviously on wires) and smashes into a tree. It's slightly laughable effects to a modern audience, but it just might be the most violent death I've seen in any Universal monster movie (and trust me, I've seen them all).There is still some fun here in the sense of a movie to be watched at Midnight on a Saturday with popcorn and beer, but the original is one of the best monster movies ever made and this sequel is just an obvious cash grab.

The movie is like Jurassic Park 2 to Jurassic Park 1 in that the first movie takes place in the wild as compared to the sequel bringing the creature into the civilization. This is a creature of habit, and it goes after pretty women again, once it gets loose from its aquarium habitat. What happens next is all too predictable. The movie features the creature for the second time. There is nothing wrong with the monster itself. Universal potentially had a good star that could have made this series a classic. But the story and acting by the humans were so mediocre, it killed a potentially good film.The story of the movie was at the level of "I was a Teenage Werewolf" in that monster just walks around attacking mostly unsuspecting humans. What could have happened was that the movie may have made in color with setting in beautiful jungle to beautiful tropics of Florida, and have that as part of the story. It would have combined escapism with intrigue, and make it a very unique movie for that time.Made when Universal's monster movies were well past its prime. It would be interesting if another low budget studio like Asylum would resurrect the theme into the modern format.