by Universal Studios
Sales Rank: 36212
Price: $14.98
The only reason I saw this movie is because it was on Mystery science theater 3000. John Agar is a terrible actor and watching this movie is like waiting in the lobby of a dentist office waiting to get your teeth drilled..
Viewer Reviews 'Revenge of the Creature' is a pretty good sequel to the original but, there are several reasons for it not receiving a 5 star rating like the first movie. First of all, I find the changes to the Creature's head piece a big mistake. The "fish-like" eyes on the original were replaced with "bug-like" eyes or bulging eyes and the head is very fat and round shaped. This makes the Creature look sort of fake to me. They also didn't bring Ben Chapman back to play "The Gillman" on land in this film. I found the new actor to be too stereotypical of these rubber suit monster films as he stomped around like child throwing a fit. I'm not trashing this film but, I wanted to point out some of these flaws as without them this would have been another 5 stars film. I love these movies and the Creature trilogy is a very interesting set of films from the Universal archives. For one all three films are very different and I would love to see a remake that combined all three films into one great one. Cronenberg? Where are you? Since he did such a great job with 'The Fly" it would be interesting to see what he could do with this idea. There are some excellent shots in this film, one is a shot of the divers going away from the camera and the Creature comes into view following them it's creepy because they are not aware of his presence, the other is when the Creature comes from under the water to attack and drag a large bird into the lagoon(very cool).. I did notice some recycled footage from the first film in the underwater scenes because in the new underwater scenes I noticed air bubbles coming from the top of the head of the Creature. A little better editing could have fixed this and it's hard to believe that with the success of the first film that someone didn't care enough to make the Creature look his best. All and all it is a fun and entertaining installment and it's miles ahead of the copy cat films that followed. It does hold one more significant virtue for being my horror buddy "Clint Bronson's" first horror film and starting him off in his mad quest of watching horror films! LOL! My hat's off to you brother!.....This film is available on DVD on the Creature From The Black Lagoon Legacy Set. The DVD transfers to all three films are very good and there are some interesting extra material included.
