The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

Pretty Good

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

A monster movie with a difference: in this one, the monster attacks only when provoked - even seeing an act of violence stirs up its own violent instincts. The monster makeup and rubber suit are good, as are the destruction effects at the end, and there are some long & impressive underwater sequences. The only cast member who deserves equal billing with the creature is Leigh Snowden as a shapely, adventurous but oppressed 1950s wife; her most memorable scene has her suddenly shooting at sharks! The men are interchangeable. **1/2 out of 4.

Directed by John Sherwood, The Creature Walks Among Us is the third and final movie in one of Universal's most beloved monster franchises, that of the Gill-Man of the Black Lagoon. The original is a genre classic, a surprisingly creepy picture given its B-movie shackles that makes powerful use of its man-in-a-rubber-suit special effects. With audiences losing interest in creature features and denying Universal its bread and butter in the process, Creature from the Black Lagoon inspired a quickly-made sequel the following year, Revenge of the Creature, a routine monster movie that proved to be as uninspiring and unimaginative as its title, drawing from what made its predecessor so memorable without any of its skill of execution.This final bow wraps the trilogy up nicely, while facing the wrath of its fans by being rather hesitant to go underwater and taking the evolutionary curiosity in a different direction all together. After the events of Revenge, the creature is at large in Florida, believed to be hiding out in the wetlands of the Everglades. A new crack team of square-jawed scientists and one of their pretty wives head out on a boat in the hope of snaring the beast, although it quickly comes to light that each man may have their own intentions. The handsome Thomas Morgan (Rex Reason) hopes to gain medical insight through experimentation, but the unhinged William Barton (Jeff Morrow) plans to mess with its DNA and creature a whole new species. The presence of Barton's wife Marcia (Leigh Snowden) has testosterone running high, sending Barton slowly mad in the process, while sleazy jungle guide Jed Grant (Gregg Palmer) tries to catch her eye.After an incident leaves the Gill-Man badly burned, the crew tend to him and head for home. The burns peel back to reveal a smoother skin beneath, and the group are shocked to learn that the gill-breather also has lungs. The creature starts to, as the title suggests, walk among us, and is here more human than ever. With this idea, the film harks back to the original and turns its focus on man as the beast. He doesn't even need shackles to walk into his enclosure once he is brought ashore, and is eventually only thrown into a rage by evil acts committed by man. There's no claiming and kidnapping women to be his mate, and at one point he even prevents a rape. There is a startling amount of characterisation for a genre normally so reliant of archetypes, thanks to the script by Arthur A. Ross and strong performances from Morrow and Reason (who appeared together in sci-fi turkey and 'classic' This Island Earth. Given its obvious appeal, the Creature has remained surprisingly untouched by Hollywood's fondness for remakes, and judging from the reaction to Universal's introduction to their planned 'Dark Universe', The Mummy, let's keep it that way.

This is a very scary movie. It is the third Creature from the black lagoon movie. It has great acting. It also as a great story line. It is very intense. It is scary then the first 2 Creature from the black lagoon movies. And these movies are very scary. The forth Creature from the black lagoon movie The monster squad is scarier. But still this is the one of the scariest movies made before 1987. All the Creature from the black lagoon movies are must sees. In this movie some people trap the monster and try to change his D.T.A so he will be more human. This is one of the best monster movies ever. I need more lines and I am running out of things to say.

The third and final creature feature with the gentleman from the Black Lagoon was strictly from hunger. Apparently in not one of the three films was it thought that, where there are gill men there must be gill women.Because being cut off from his gill women must be giving that creature one mean itch he has to scratch. In this case the itch giver is Leigh Snowden.Snowden herself has some scratching issues. She's married to scientist Jeff Morrow. But rugged sailor Gregg Palmer has got his eye on her and making moves as well.This film also features scientists Morrow and Rex Reason operating on the creature after he's burned. They take out his gills and work on developing some nascent lungs. Now his native habitat is the water and doing that will also increase the creature's anxiety level. What happens? You stay to watch the last and clearly the worst of the Black Lagoon films.