Creature From the Black Lagoon: Complete Legacy Collection [DVD]

Great film. This was the first monster movie I bought-in-to when I was a kid. The Blob and plan-9 from outer space pale in comparison. Well… Plan-9 is known as the worst one ever.99% of all monster movies, in my experience, had schlocky, poorly designed and executed monster costumes. For example Godzilla or the Gorn on Star Trek.Somehow, these guys got it right!No zippers, poorly fitted skin or goofy features. It’s as believable as monster as anything I’ve seen until the Sci-Fi movies of the 2000’s!The monster looks believable, and even though as a kid I knew it was a guy in a suit, I could not see a scuba tank or weight belt. I was fascinated!I was immersed in the story from beginning to end.But… as an adult and looking back, the writing is not as crisp. Instead, it’s Formulaic and very predictable. It has a kind of early ‘Gillian’s Island’ feel to it, without the slapstick humor.For no obvious explained reason, the monster has a crush on the pretty woman on board the boat and continually hunts her down.She’s always left alone above deck while all the men are below decks discussing how to lure and catch or kill it. Wouldn’t the monster have other females of his own kind in the next swamp over?It’s kitschy and immersive at the same time.In my estimation, the best of it’s era!I am SO glad this video is a good print. It’s as good as I remember seeing it back in the day. I’m very glad I own it now. I’ve watched it twice this week.Try it, you’ll like it.

I am a fan of the early SciFi/Horror films, probably because I grew up watching them in the sixties. Since they aren't on TV much anymore, I have my own collection of these classic films.

I love this movie, it came out in the fifties and some of the best horror is old school. If you want to see a great creature feature this is it.

Fifty three years ago I watched the Creature From The Black Lagoon for the first time on my 5th birthday. As a birthday present my dad would drag out his Bell and Howell projector and put in the reel of The Creature From The Black Lagoon film. Every birthday as my first present the family watched the picture. I watched it each birthday from age 5 to 17. Age 18 I went to college.The movie was great I enjoyed every minute of it. Sad to say I never watched it in 3D. Other reviewers have said the 3D version was great.Two years ago I found the old projector in my parent's house after my parents had passed away but could not find the reel of The Creature From The Black Lagoon. I'm so glad that the old original TCFTBL was put on this Legacy collection DVD. It brings back so many happy memories of my family and I celebrating my birthdays with the Creature.The Legacy DVD collection was great. This B/W DVD had great both visual and audio. I can't complain about anything! The acting, plot and directing were superb but the best INMO was the Creature. The full body rubber suit of the Creature was fantastic and super state of the art for early 1950s. Look at those horrible eyes, gills and clawed webbed hands and big feet! The Creature is seen effortlessly back swimming underwater looking up intently at the beautiful woman swimmer on the surface. You can see it is just iching to reach up and grab her. I pity the man inside the hot rubber suit on land in a hot/humid Florida day. The set was in Fl in the springs about 40 miles from where my family and I live today.As a youngster I was always for the Creature and cheered when it got away out of the net and escaped in the Black Lagoon in the Amazon. Years later I realised this film was similar to King Kong as "beauty killed the beast". Both creatures were attracted to a beautiful woman and this led to their downfall. Like I said I have never seen TCFTBL in 3D. I can imagine the spear gun shots underwater at the Creature must have been great as well as the creature walking with his arms out right into the camera. Must have terrorized the little kids in the 50s (in a nice way).Just shows everyone a great monster/horror movie can be made with NO 4 letter words, sex and nudity, disgusting graphic scenes like peoples heads getting sawed off like in some of today's horror movies. These graphic kinds of PG13 or worse ...horror/monster maybe OK for the older crowed ( I have no interest watching some cruelty like someones head getting cut off by a chainsaw or worse) but INMO NOT for a 5 year old. TCFTBL was the kind of movie you could let your 5 year old enjoy and the rest of the family would enjoy it too. The violence is directed to an inhuman horrible monster and visa versa...not human to human. I LOVED this movie on my birthdays age 5 -17. I weeped every time the creature got spear gunned and shot. I bawled my eyes out when the Creatures lifeless form drifts over the edge of the underwater cliff into deeper water.Maybe someone can please verify this for me. The scene where the creature is holding the unconscious woman in its arms in the cavern passageway... was she truely unconscious? I heard from numerous people the actor playing the Creature bopped the woman's head accidentally on the side of the rocks and the director liked the authentic unconsciousness so much he kept the cameras rolling. True or false?...or is this just a myth.I have never seen the Creature's Revenge or The Creature Walks Among Us. This DVD was great with these 2 bonus DVDs. Each was in B/W . The visual and audio were great. Great plots, acting and again the Creature stole the show. 3 cheers for the Creature. Again the Creature is attracted to good looking women and tries to capture them. I was so mad at the scientists trying to make the creature more human by making him use his lungs instead of his gills so they can have something to study for humankind going into outer space..Now it can't breath underwater and escapes and kills the mental wacko doctor that imprisons him. Again the Creature is attracted to a good looking woman. They even cloth the creature. I felt bad when the Creature kills the graduate student woman's German Shepard dog. The dog was only trying to protect the woman. Bad,bad Creature. All 3 movies as a collection INMO are in the top 5 monster/horror movies of all time and each movie is a 5 star movie!There are bonus trailers of the movies as well as commentary and an original documentary Back to the Black Lagoon. This is a superb Legacy collection to pass down to your kids and their kids. Rated 5 stars plus.

Classic

Nice midnight TV movie. Shows you don't need blood and guts and CGI for a good movie.