Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

Directed by

Jack Arnold

Genre

action film, horror film, adventure film, science fiction film, monster film, science fiction horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 19m

Rated

G

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 870 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of scientists on an Amazon expedition discover a prehistoric creature part fish and part human. The Gill-man becomes fascinated with one of the female researchers and begins to stalk the team.

suspensefultenseatmosphericvintagecreepyvisually strikingbleakmonster-led

What happens

Creature from the Black Lagoon is a 1954 American black-and-white 3D monster horror film produced by William Alland and directed by Jack Arnold, from a screenplay by Harry Essex and Arthur Ross and a story by Maurice Zimm. It stars Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva, and Whit Bissell. The film's plot follows a group of scientists who encounter a piscine amphibious humanoid in the waters of the Amazon; the Creature, also known as the Gill-man, was played by Ben Chapman on land and by Ricou Browning underwater. Produced and distributed by Universal-International, Creature from the Black Lagoon premiered in Detroit on February 12, 1954, and was released on a regional basis, opening on various dates. Creature from the Black Lagoon was filmed in three dimensions (3D) and originally projected by the polarized light method. The audience wore viewers with gray polarizing filters, similar to the viewers most commonly used today. Because the brief 1950s 3D film fad had peaked in mid-1953 and was fading fast in early 1954, many audiences actually saw the film "flat", in two dimensions (2D). Typically, the film was shown in 3D in large downtown theaters and flat in smaller neighborhood theaters. In 1975, Creature from the Black Lagoon was released to theaters in the red-and-blue-glasses anaglyph 3D format, which was also used for a 1980 home video release on Beta and VHS videocassettes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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