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31 Days of Horror Day 14 Creature from the Black Lagoon

TITLE-Creature from the Black Lagoon
FORMAT-Universal DVD

This was the 3rd of the Universal Classic Horror films I saw. The local UHF channel aired it late one Saturday night. I ended up staying up all night to see it at 3am. Plus Creature is pretty much always tied with The Wolfman as my favorites of the Universal Classics.

A small boat of scientists and others go out in search of a fishman. They find one,who is male and falls in love with the one female on the boat. The woman gets kidnapped by the Creature and the rest of the crew have to save her.

Fairly standard plot that since this came out in 54 has been copied many many times.What makes this version stand out is many things. The acting is much better than you would normally get in a genre film of this era. The Gillman suit looks amazing. And while this DVD is missing this the film  was originally released in 3d. I got lucky back in the mid 2000s and saw a theatrical screening  of the 3d version.

Creature from the Black Lagoon gets a A.