Revenge of the creature1/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() #REVENGE OF THE CREATURE FULL#It would seem that both men are former Southern country boys, because their strategy for catching the gill-man involves a slightly more advanced version of what was a fairly common practice in that part of the world in those days- dynamite fishing! That’s right, the scientists place floating cans full of explosives at strategic points around the lagoon, set them off, and then wait for the concussion-stunned monster to float to the surface just like all the other fish. And fortunately for all concerned (except, that is, for the gill-man himself), Ferguson and Hayes have thought of the one thing that escaped the minds of their predecessors. ![]() They’re thinking a live gill-man in captivity will pack in the crowds like nothing else on Earth, and they’re probably right. These men, Clete Ferguson (John Agar, of Invisible Invaders and The Brain from Planet Arous) and Joseph Hayes (John Bromfield, from Curucu, Beast of the Amazon), are in the employ of a Sea World-like tourist trap in Florida called Ocean Harbor, and their bosses want the gill-man brought back for a combination of scientific study and insanely lucrative public exhibition. He has returned to the very same dead-end stream that nearly became his grave the year before, and this time he has brought with him another couple of scientists whose avowed mission is to capture the very same creature that came close to killing him the last time. Revenge of the Creature shows that the difficulties inherent in making a worthwhile sequel were just as strongly in effect in the 1950’s as they are today.Ī year after his first trip to the Black Lagoon, Lucas the riverboat captain (Nestor Paiva again) has himself a new boat (the Rita II) and a new crew, but he apparently learned none of the lessons his experience in that forgotten corner of the Amazon basin should have taught him. #REVENGE OF THE CREATURE MOVIE#However, as a fan, I’d like to suggest that the little voice that emanates from the wallets of big-shot movie producers- the one that says, “Quick! Make a sequel before the audience forgets how much they liked the first movie!”- ought to be ignored far more often than it is heeded. And given that the movie’s artistic success was matched (and indeed, probably exceeded) by its success at the box office, a sequel was all but inevitable. 1954’s Creature from the Black Lagoon was easily the best horror/monster film Universal Studios had produced in about 15 years, and I’d be willing to let it slide if someone told me it was the studio’s best since the 1925 silent version of The Phantom of the Opera. Sometimes it really is better to just leave well enough alone. ![]()
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