VHS : Creature From the Black Lagoon

Rating: - Classic Sci-Fi video minus color, blood & guts
This is a classic Sci-Fi that keeps your interest to the end. It takes eerie music and your imagination and has you wonder what is coming next. Although it fails in comparison to todays Sci-Fi movies, with their color and blood and guts, it still remains a classic of bygone days that keeps you in suspense. The ending may even make you feel sorry for the monser.

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Rating: - Creature kept afloat by sound premise
The Creature from the Black Lagoon is your basic Saturday morning cartoon stuff, but it is slickly produced to make it one of the prototypes for 1950's monster movies. A biological expedition heads to the nearly forgotten backwaters of the Amazon in search of a mythical half-man, half-lizard creature. The underwater photography in this movie is stunningly lucid (and plays better in black and white than some of the color underwater stuff shot today). Julie Adams's swimming is equally lucid and graceful. Rico Brown (a professional swimmer himself) plays The Creature and is mezmorizing in his underwater fight scenes. Aside from the Adams & Brown synchronized swimming, the other actors leave much to be desired. But the premise and the emphasis on storytelling (not unrelenting violence) is sound enough to keep Creature afloat.

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Rating: - ok
not that good of a show but good for some well done part on the movi