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DVD Creature from the Black Lagoon
Jack Arnold's horror classic The Creature from the Black Lagoon spawned not one but two iconic images: the web-footed humanoid gill-man with a hankering for women and the leggy, luscious Julia Adams, the object of his desire, swimming the lagoon in a luminous white bathing suit. Not since King Kong has the "beauty and the beast" theme been portrayed in such sexually charged (though chaste) terms. Arnold turns an effectively B-movie plot--a small expedition up a remote Amazon river captures a prehistoric amphibian man, who escapes to wreak havoc on the team and kidnap his bathing beauty--into a moody, stylish, low-budget feature. The jungle exteriors turn from exotic to treacherous when the creature blocks their passage and strands them in the wilds. Much of the film is shot underwater, where the murky dark is animated by shimmering shards of sunlight, creating images both lovely and alien (the studio-built sets of the creature's underground lair are far less naturalistic, but serve their purpose). As with most of Arnold's '50s genre films, he's saddled with a less than magnetic leading man (in this case the colorless but stalwart Richard Carlson) and a conventional script, but he overcomes such limitations by creating a vivid and sympathetic monster (helped immeasurably by a marvelous suit of scales and fins) and establishing a mood thick with atmosphere. The film was originally shot in 3-D. --Sean Axmaker
If you wake the hidden demons of the nature, pay the prize!
What it really likes me more of this movie is the fact the horror comes from the undecipherable Mother nature at the moment you decide break the nature rules, in the name of science or whatever the reason be. A group of scientists run afoul a prehistoric man-fish inhabiting in depth waters in the remote backwaters of the Amazon.
The picture explores the recondite mysteries of the Nature that still live inside. The horror in this sense is a debt you have to pay when you open Pandora 's box. It is a supernatural force, unpredictable where the creature will establish the expected ancestral link that connects with King Kong for instance.
Once these members discover it, the fight for surviving will take its place and the hunters will be hunted. It is worthy to remark the fact there were three films that rode the same path The fly, Them and this one in what it respects to describe the horror from the inner Earth and not from the outer space: Can these manifestations be considered as aliens for our established social status? Or worse still are not we the aliens for them in the sense of invade its territories?
If not ask for Spielberg, who applied the same formula in Jurassic Park with spectacular stages but with the same paradigm; the employed device does not matter: it is the rupture of the laws of the nature; it 's Alberich stealing the Gold in Walhalla what, in last instance, determines the logic and expected reaction: it 's Wotan 's punishment when he transgressed the norm. All tragedy implies the violation of a limit; natural or human. In the first case we have a tragedy, in the second we have subversion.
In Halloween 's month it is more than an obligated reference to acquire this icon of the Horror genre.
The Creature Will Neve Die!
This movie is one of the best creature features made in the "Drive In 1950s." The print on the DVD is excellent as is the audio. Start making the popcorn now!
"Some Of Them Are Cries Of Fear Like People Who Whisper In The Dark"
By 1954 it seemed that Universal had run out its string of classic horror icons. Frankenstein's Monster, The Mummy, and the Wolfman were forever gone from the backlots of Universal Studios. Enter Bud Westmore with a brand new monster design and The Creature soon joined the unholy 3 as the new face of horror. The Creature or Gillman would be the first Universal monster to be a full body suit and played by 2 actors in the same film (Browning for water and Chapman for land). Jack Arnold would bring a newly charged atmosphere and revitalize a genre.
When a strange new type of fossil is discovered deep in the jungles of the Amazon River a scientist (Carlson) and his assistant (Adams) track down a living "Gillman". When attempts to capture the creature fail, it becomes enraged.
Once again there is a David Skaal production, this time entitled "Back to the Black Lagoon". The feature contains interviews with many participants in the film and tactfully covers the controversy over the actors portraying the Creature. No actor was credited on the film because the PR department thought that ignoring the creature in the credits would create a buzz they helped to stimulate that the creature was real.
The DVD is rounded out with the usual trailers, bios, stills, and production notes. The menus are relatively simple and easy to navigate.
Creature from the Black Lagoon was the last of the Universal Monsters to grace the movie screens. There would be two sequels, but by the mid 1960's an era that started 30 years before with Lugosi's Dracula came to an end with The Creature Walks among Us. The DVD marks a milestone in film history, and when you play this disc I urge you to listen carefully to sounds because "Some of them are cries of fear like people who whisper in the dark."
You have to hand it to the walking dead. What they lack in speed and agility, they more than make up for in sheer single-minded determination. Im-Ho-Tep is a case in point. He's an ancient Egyptian priest, cursed for his terrible crimes against the gods. A team of British archaeologists digs up his sarcophagus, along with a box inscribed with a warning that opening it will unleash death and destruction. You'll never guess what they do. Once freed, Im-Ho-Tep takes on the appropriately evil alias Ardath Bey and gets to the task of resurrecting his ancient lover--which will, of course, require a living human surrogate. While the premise may sound formulaic, The Mummy in fact turns out to be bracingly weird, relying on atmospheric creepiness rather than on jump-out-and-scare-you... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Boris Karloff - Zita Johann - David Manners Director(s): Karl Freund DVD Release Date: Released the 28 August 2001 This item is currently not available.
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Even a man who is pure in heart, And says his prayers by night, May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the autumn moon is bright.
If you haven't heard this piece of horror-movie doggerel before, you'll never forget it after seeing The Wolf Man for two reasons: it's a spooky piece of rhyme and nearly everybody in the picture recites it at one time or another. Set in a fog-bound studio-built Wales, The Wolf Man tells the doom-laden tale of Lawrence Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.), who returns to the estate of his wealthy father (Claude Rains). (Yes, Chaney's American, but the movie explains this, awkwardly.) Bitten by a werewolf, Talbot suffers the classic fate of the victims of lycanthropy: at the full moon, he turns into a werewolf, a... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Claude Rains - Warren William Director(s): George Waggner DVD Release Date: Released the 28 August 2001 This item is currently not available.
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Claude Rains practically owns his film debut in The Invisible Man, despite the fact that his face (let alone his body) is seen only for seconds in the final moments. As the brilliant scientist who discovers the secret of invisibility, Rains steps into the film wrapped up like a mummy behind a layer of bandages and blanketed in heavy clothes. When he removes his garments, there's nothing underneath, a simple but effective bit of 1930s movie magic that, apart from a few glitches, works as well today as it did in 1933. Like Frankenstein, another cautionary tale of science gone horribly wrong, the consequences of the doctor's experiments are dire: the chemicals drive him insane. Director James Whale infuses the film with plenty of humor, much of it arising from the quaint quirks... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Claude Rains - Gloria Stuart Director(s): James Whale DVD Release Date: Released the 28 August 2001 This item is currently not available.
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"It's alive! Alive!" shouts Colin Clive's triumphant Dr. Frankenstein as electricity buzzes over the hulking body of a revived corpse. "In the name of God now I know what it's like to be God!" For years unheard, this line has been restored, along with the legendary scene of the childlike monster tossing a little girl into a lake, in James Whale's Frankenstein, one of the most famous and influential horror movies ever made. Coming off the tremendous success of Dracula, Universal assigned sophomore director Whale to helm an adaptation of Mary Shelley's famous novel with Bela Lugosi as the monster. When Lugosi declined the role, Whale cast the largely unknown character actor Boris Karloff and together with makeup designer Jack Pierce they created the most memorable monster in... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Colin Clive - Mae Clarke - Boris Karloff Director(s): James Whale DVD Release Date: Released the 27 April 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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When Universal Pictures picked up the movie rights to a Broadway adaptation of Dracula, they felt secure in handing the property over to the sinister team of actor Lon Chaney and director Tod Browning. But Chaney died of cancer, and Universal hired the Hungarian who had scored a success in the stage play: Béla Lugosi. The resulting film launched both Lugosi's baroque career and the horror-movie cycle of the 1930s. It gets off to an atmospheric start, as we meet Count Dracula in his shadowy castle in Transylvania, superbly captured by the great cinematographer Karl Freund. Eventually Dracula and his blood-sucking devotee (Dwight Frye, in one of the cinema's truly mad performances) meet their match in a vampire-hunter called Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan). If the later... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Bela Lugosi - Helen Chandler - David Manners Director(s): Tod Browning DVD Release Date: Released the 28 August 2001 This item is currently not available.
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