Creature from the Black Lagoon

not as strong as something like frankenstein and it does follow a similaire formula of a monster not being an actual threat upon further inspection but its still pretty clever.

i really love these old universal monster flicks that are driven by heavy music and slow camera movements. its not scary anymore but it still gives these types of films allot of suspense.
the titular creature looks sick as hell and while in the film it may look silly and goofy, there is still something disturbing about his appearance.
his weird eyeballs, his freakish hands.

now what i mean with the frankenstein comparison is that he doesn't really attack the main human cast, i mean he eventually does but only after being chased.
i do think its also very clever that the only human who died besides the people in the opening is the one who wanted to take the creature to the people only for them to believe him, his ultimate selfish goal was his doom.
now, the opening kills would be against allot of what i just said but they did make contact with the group we follow, they are still complicate in disturbing the creature.

it makes you really think of what humans would do if we ever found such a creature, the answer being:hunting them down and killing them.
the film is not a visual masterpiece by any means, even if it has its standout shots. i really love the monsterous amounts of mist they added in the last 6 minutes.
it adds allot of flavour to the scene.

also not mentioning the fact we never really get to know how this creature came to be.
was he once human?
or did he came to exit because of some radiation?

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A last hurrah for Universal in the monster films. (Not counting the sequels)
They could have stopped with this one and ended on a really high note.

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