Curse of the Swamp Creature (1968)

Sick Product of a Sick System

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

This film is nothing more than a countrified remake of terrible film called Voodoo Woman (1956). Yes it's countrified - listen to the accents. And the acting is just as awful as the original film. This is a classic example of a no-budget z-grade film with actors going nowhere.Why in the heck did they think that Voodoo Woman needed a remake to begin with - and if they did decide to remake the film then why make it worse than the already terrible original film? Shouldn't this film be a little bit better than the original? UGH! Okay to be fair this is a made for TV remake so I guess it shouldn't be a bit better than the original but I wish it was. I couldn't make it through the first film and there's no way I can make it through this film.I like a bad B-film that is good but these are so bad they are a waste of film, time and a little bit of money to make. Not to mention a waste of time to finish watching.1/10

A petroleum engineer, Mr. West, registers at a motel in the swamp. He's there to explore for oil, and he's to meet his partner, Mr. Rogers (Agar), the next day. The handful of people running the motel treat the possibility of finding oil the way the cowboys in the old Westerns treated finding gold. They kill Mr. West and the leading lady, Simmons in capri pants and beehive hair do, decides to pose as Mr. West's wife and accompany Rogers on his trek.This is only twenty minutes into the movie and already I felt a mysterious numbness creeping up my spine. How -- this is what I foolishly wondered -- how can Simmons pose as Mr. West's wife? For all anyone knows, Rogers and West have been close friends for years. How is it plausible that a total stranger could claim to know all about a man she'd only met hours before and exchanged a dozen words with? It was "foolish" to ask because if you let yourself get hung up on a question of such MINOR significance, you'll be stunned into unconsciousness as the rest of the film unfolds.It's not worth going on about. The plot was written by two plods who were on some experimental psychedelic drug. The acting is what you'd expect from the cast of a high school play in East Orange. Uncertain, Texas -- yes, that's the location's real name -- gives a good impression of swampiness. It's an impressive ecosystem. The plot depicts it as an African jungle. A man hacks his way through the bush with a machete while Agar strolls casually behind, holding his sports jacket flung over his shoulder, a tourist on vacation. Jungle drums beat messages back and forth. (No kidding.) Agar looks fine, by the way, considering the stresses that time and self abuse must have imposed on his appearance.I couldn't get through it. I was in the thrall of that numbness and was barely able to shut this monstrosity off. To sum it up, if someone gave you a camera, small crew, a handful of people claiming to be actors, and sent you to Uncertain, Texas, with the sole instruction: "Make a movie about sinister goings-on in this swamp," you would do at least as good a job.I'm giving this two stars instead of one, but only because it could be worse. It could be a Nazi or Stalinist propaganda film.

Although Dr. Simon Trent, in the 1966 shlock classic "Curse of the Swamp Creature," is a completely obnoxious, homicidal, bullying madman, you've got to at least give him credit for one thing: He keeps his pet alligators well fed! Every time one of his experiments on evolution reversal or possibly the creation of an artificially gilled fishman (I'm not quite clear on this point) goes awry--which is pretty darn often, actually--his human test subject gets tossed into his front-yard gator pool. A production of American International Television (was this thing actually a TV movie?!?!), this lame little cheapie is a real challenge to sit through. No wonder star John Agar, here a geologist looking for oil near Trent's bayou retreat, seems to be having difficulty keeping his eyes open. Cult actress Francine York is on hand, too, playing Trent's captive wife, and her many charms are mostly wasted here. The film is only 80 minutes long, and yet still feels padded with endless shots of voodoo dancers, alligators, and swamp cruising. Throw in a singularly lame-looking monster who only appears in the picture's final five minutes, the lamest quicksand scene ever committed to film, remarkably poor dialogue, egregious day-for-night shots, incessantly annoying voodoo drumming, and completely uninspired direction by Larry Buchanan and you've got the makings of a real swamp mess indeed. My beloved "Psychotronic Encyclopedia" says that this movie is "an all-time favorite of American insomniacs," and I think I now understand why. This snoozer should put anyone to sleep!

I saw this movie on AMC's Monsterfest in Oct. of 2003 it was on at 3 or 4am I had my tape ready & all to record. But the movie wasn't what I expected. I was use to seeing good monster suits like in Octaman & Zaat both from 1972. But over time since 2004 I have grew to like & appreciate Buchanan's stuff. Zontar, The Thing From Venus, was the first I saw. Then The Eye Creatures & so on. So Swamp Creature is a direct remake of Voodoo Woman (1956) it's about this mad scientist named Simon Trent who is trying to make land creatures into sea creatures his several failed experiments with his human subjects ended up in the gator pool. He even ends up using one of his assistants played by Tony Houston. John Agar stars & plays Barry Rogers a Geologist that falls into a plot for money dealing with finding oil. The local Snake Worshiping Natives are restless & know the doctor's evil experiments. Agar & the rest eventually get to their destination & meet the doctor & his charming sexy wife played by Francine York, which looks so gorgeously hot in the red dinner dress if u don't like these movies then at least watch it for her. So the doctor eventually succeeds in creating his fish swamp monster by using the chick posing as Mrs. West. Of course u know it's not going to work with Pat (Francine York) taunting her to show her how Simon ruined her beauty she throws him into the gator pool. This movie isn't for you unless u like B & Z Grade Sci-Fi & Horror Flicks. If u guys like 60's glamor watch it for Francine York at least. She looks stunning in this movie. I think this is Buchanan's best 60's Made For T.V. remake besides Creature Of Destruction from 1967.