Revenge of the Creature [VHS]

Revenge of the Creature [VHS]
by Jack Arnold

Revenge of the Creature [VHS]

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Actor: Grandon Rhodes, John Agar, John Bromfield, Lori Nelson, Nestor Paiva
Director: Jack Arnold
Cinematographer: Scotty Welbourne
Editor: Paul Weatherwax
Producer: William Alland
Writer: William Alland
Writer: Martin Berkeley
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Original recording reissued
Running Time: 82 minutes
Release Date: 2000-08-29
Audience Rating: Unrated
Publisher: Universal Studios
Studio: Universal Studios

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Movie Review: The Creature Lives
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is one hour and twenty-two minutes long and was released on May 11, 1955. This is the second installment of the three Creature films. It is just as good as the first one. Two of the actors who appeared in the first one, return again. Nestor Paiva; Lucas the Boat Captain, Ricou Browning; underwater Gillman, and Jack Arnold; Director. When the movie begins, some of the scenes were taken from Creature 1. Like the first one, is has great underwater scenery that is spectacular to watch. Finally just like the first, the movie ends with the Creature getting shot. Poor thing. This is one of a few great monster sequel. So add it to your collection.

Movie Review: REVENGE IS NOT SO SWEET FOR THIS CREATURE!
Summary: 4 Stars

'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.

Movie Review: Bad movie
Summary: 1 Stars

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..

Movie Review: REVENGE OF THE CREATURE
Summary: 5 Stars

THE SECOND CREATURE FILM I THOUGHT WAS REALLY GOOD. I LOVED THE MARINA SETTING IN FLORIDA AND ALL THE ACTION IT SHOWED. AND THE CREATURE REALLY GOT SOME GOOD REVENGE ON HUMANS, ESPECIALLY THE PARTY CRASHER SCENE, AND THE WINDOW PEEPING SCENES WERE REALLY FUNNY WHERE THE CREATURE SEEMED BREATHLESS. THE FIRST ONE I THOUGHT LACKED ACTION. IT WAS MORE OF AN EXPLORATORY MOVIE OF CURIOUSITY ABOUT HUMANS, SUCH AS ALL THE FOOTSIE SCENES AND THE BIG CLAWED HAND REACHING OUT TO TOUCH HUMANS. I THOUGHT THE AMAZON SETTING AND THE SOUND EFFECTS WERE REALLY GOOD ESPECIALLY FUNNY WERE THE PIG SQUEALING SOUND EFFECTS AND THE CAST WAS GOOD TOO. ALL IN ALL I THOUGHT BOTH WERE REALLY GOOD, BUT I PREFERED THE SECOND.

Movie Review: Amazonian creature, green, seeks marine biologist, human
Summary: 4 Stars

I was going to say that "Revenge of the Creature," the sequel to the classic Universal monster movie "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" presages "Jaws 3," but the whole idea of bringing back the monster to civilization goes back at least to "King Kong." The story for this 1955 sequel is that the creature is captured in his secluded Amazon waterway and brought back to a Marineland in northern Florida where it can be exhibited, er, studied. John Agar ("Tarantula," "Brain From Planet Arous") is Professor Clete Ferguson, who represents that peculiar combination of science and showmanship that made this country great, and Lori Nelson ("Hot Rod Girl," "Day the World Ended") is Helen Dobson, the beautiful marine biologist who becomes the object of the creature's desires (as opposed to good food or freedom).

Like its predecessor this 1955 film was shot in 3-D, although I have never seen it that way. But you can certainly see where the 3-D opportunities pop up: e.g., the creature swims right towards you and prods are directed right at the camera. Besides being set in civilization instead of in the jungle and having an entirely different cast (except for Nestor Paiva's Captain Lucas who is gone by the end of the first reel), the main different between the first two films is that this time the creature is more of a monster. Before it was basically snatch the beautiful woman in the swimsuit and take her to your hidden lair. This time the creature jumps out of his tank to attack crowds of spectators and then has to swat the police around a bit as he escapes. There are also teenagers to be the creature's unfortunate victims, just to give the kids in the audience someone to identify with, which was not possible the first time around. Fortunately the

Jack Arnold returns as the director for "Revenge" and Ricou Browning is back again to do the underwater shots of the creature while Tom Hennessy gets to do the heavy lifting of the heroine on land. Again, the underwater sequences are pretty good, with Arnold having the creature follow the damsel while she films, although this time the hero has joined her as well as the creature reaches for her legs. Arnold is able to establish the requisite degree of pathos for the poor creature, who is chained and poked with a cattle prod. Fortunately when he escapes the river he jumps into takes him right to Jacksonville where Helen is blissfully unaware she is going to be carted away. There is also the quaint idea that Helen is conflicted over being a working woman since all of her schoolmates apparently abandoned their degrees to be wives and mothers. Fortunately the creature's interest helps to put her life into perspective and Clete will be able to give her a stable home without any humanoid fish-like creatures gapping at her. Ah, there is nothing like the political sub-text of a black & white 1950s B-movie.

"Revenge of the Creature" is not as bad as I remember it, although I do not think it is in the league of the original "Creature From the Black Lagoon." Granted, when you have one of the greatest rubber suits in the history of monster movies you have to make a sequel. Apparently this one made more money that the first, which would explain why it was followed the next year by "The Creature Walks Among Us." The other thing that recommends this particular creature feature would be the fact that this is the first movie in the history of the world in which Clint Eastwood makes an appearance. He has an uncredited role as a lab technician who does a lame gag regarding a missing mouse (insert appropriate metaphor along the lines of mighty oaks growing from tiny acorns).

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