Creature From the Black Lagoon: Complete Legacy Collection [DVD]

This review is actually a series of posts I made on a bulletin board...Normally when you watch one of these movies as a kid you want the monster to live, but the Creature was so disturbing I was torn as a child. A part of me felt bad for him, but another part just wanted him to die.Watching him eat the fish out of the trap freaked me out as a kid, because he was so relaxed in that scene you really thought he lived in that lagoon.I'm stunned by how well this film was made. First off, they got most of the science right, which may not sound like a big deal, but 99% of the time Hollywood just makes up stuff that sounds believable and lets remember this was made in the 1950's! There were a few things they got wrong, such as saying the lagoon had been the same way for millions of years, which goes against basic geology, but I think science had different theories back then as well.The story is thought out; the dialogue is well written, and as hideous as the creature might be he's still a sympathetic character. I am incredibly impressed. I have heard the original two Frankenstein movies received similar reviews and will now want to see those next.It's interesting watching these films again as an adult. Since they're genuinely well made you grow to have a different sort of appreciation for them that goes beyond, but includes, the monsters.I just finished watching the third in the trilogy, THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US.All I have to say is... OH MY GOD!!! These were a great set of films. I'm stunned.. Having not seen any of these films since about the age of 10 I found myself experiencing several flashbacks. While watching the second film, THE CREATURE'S REVENGE, I was brought back to my 9 year old self sitting alone in the living room horrified as the scientist walked around the pool of water trying to revive the creature. I remember thinking, "Oh my God, he's touching it. How can he do that??? Why isn't he scared? It's disgusting and when it wakes up he won't have time to get out of the way and it's going to kill him!!!At least that's what I remember thinking.THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US is the last film. It always bothered the living hell out of me when they tried to make him human and now even as an adult I find myself really disliking the scientist who thought it would be scientific research to cut up the Creature, making him not the Creature any more.The best part of the movie: Any time the Creature is swimming. It's still creepy as all hell, and the underwater scenes are beautifully shot. This really is amazing for 1954-1956The Worst part: Any time they suddenly show the creature and that same set of trumpets blow the exact same pattern in an effort to startle everyone.I really enjoyed BACK TO THE BLACK LAGOON. The documentary was a nice addition tot he set. Go order this set. It is well worth the price of admission.

Fifty three years ago I watched the Creature From The Black Lagoon for the first time on my 5th birthday. As a birthday present my dad would drag out his Bell and Howell projector and put in the reel of The Creature From The Black Lagoon film. Every birthday as my first present the family watched the picture. I watched it each birthday from age 5 to 17. Age 18 I went to college.The movie was great I enjoyed every minute of it. Sad to say I never watched it in 3D. Other reviewers have said the 3D version was great.Two years ago I found the old projector in my parent's house after my parents had passed away but could not find the reel of The Creature From The Black Lagoon. I'm so glad that the old original TCFTBL was put on this Legacy collection DVD. It brings back so many happy memories of my family and I celebrating my birthdays with the Creature.The Legacy DVD collection was great. This B/W DVD had great both visual and audio. I can't complain about anything! The acting, plot and directing were superb but the best INMO was the Creature. The full body rubber suit of the Creature was fantastic and super state of the art for early 1950s. Look at those horrible eyes, gills and clawed webbed hands and big feet! The Creature is seen effortlessly back swimming underwater looking up intently at the beautiful woman swimmer on the surface. You can see it is just iching to reach up and grab her. I pity the man inside the hot rubber suit on land in a hot/humid Florida day. The set was in Fl in the springs about 40 miles from where my family and I live today.As a youngster I was always for the Creature and cheered when it got away out of the net and escaped in the Black Lagoon in the Amazon. Years later I realised this film was similar to King Kong as "beauty killed the beast". Both creatures were attracted to a beautiful woman and this led to their downfall. Like I said I have never seen TCFTBL in 3D. I can imagine the spear gun shots underwater at the Creature must have been great as well as the creature walking with his arms out right into the camera. Must have terrorized the little kids in the 50s (in a nice way).Just shows everyone a great monster/horror movie can be made with NO 4 letter words, sex and nudity, disgusting graphic scenes like peoples heads getting sawed off like in some of today's horror movies. These graphic kinds of PG13 or worse ...horror/monster maybe OK for the older crowed ( I have no interest watching some cruelty like someones head getting cut off by a chainsaw or worse) but INMO NOT for a 5 year old. TCFTBL was the kind of movie you could let your 5 year old enjoy and the rest of the family would enjoy it too. The violence is directed to an inhuman horrible monster and visa versa...not human to human. I LOVED this movie on my birthdays age 5 -17. I weeped every time the creature got spear gunned and shot. I bawled my eyes out when the Creatures lifeless form drifts over the edge of the underwater cliff into deeper water.Maybe someone can please verify this for me. The scene where the creature is holding the unconscious woman in its arms in the cavern passageway... was she truely unconscious? I heard from numerous people the actor playing the Creature bopped the woman's head accidentally on the side of the rocks and the director liked the authentic unconsciousness so much he kept the cameras rolling. True or false?...or is this just a myth.I have never seen the Creature's Revenge or The Creature Walks Among Us. This DVD was great with these 2 bonus DVDs. Each was in B/W . The visual and audio were great. Great plots, acting and again the Creature stole the show. 3 cheers for the Creature. Again the Creature is attracted to good looking women and tries to capture them. I was so mad at the scientists trying to make the creature more human by making him use his lungs instead of his gills so they can have something to study for humankind going into outer space..Now it can't breath underwater and escapes and kills the mental wacko doctor that imprisons him. Again the Creature is attracted to a good looking woman. They even cloth the creature. I felt bad when the Creature kills the graduate student woman's German Shepard dog. The dog was only trying to protect the woman. Bad,bad Creature. All 3 movies as a collection INMO are in the top 5 monster/horror movies of all time and each movie is a 5 star movie!There are bonus trailers of the movies as well as commentary and an original documentary Back to the Black Lagoon. This is a superb Legacy collection to pass down to your kids and their kids. Rated 5 stars plus.

A great watch!

I'm 34, I enjoy watching older movies from time-to-time, classics like 12 angry men. I specifically purchased this because I bought a Quest 3 and found I could use the free MakeMKV w/ beta key to rip with my PC and watch 3D movies in VR with the 4XVR app. Being a highly rated Sci-Fi 3D movie from the 1950's I couldn't resist!The movie is excellent, a thrilling adventure following a small expedition crew in the Amazon forest trying to locate more fossil remains of a man/fish hybrid they assume is extinct. The thrill comes from glimpses of the monster just like movie Jaws, you get exposed more and more before the creature attacks!3D version:-The single non 4k Blu-ray plays both 2D and 3D. These days it's hard to play back 3D so you may need someone a bit tech savy like me to copy the disk to a file and play it back on a VR headset. Or, I think you can use PlayStation VR for a plug n play option.-This movie pops! It's so exciting when a movie is purposely made for 3D! All the rigging on the boat, the creature's hand, underwater life. There are these general fish shots filmed in clear water that are so darn cool and they swim toward and away from you.4K Version:Incredibly crisp. The old school film grain is prominent in the best ways. Not every scene is focused correctly on the filmmaker side, but when it is, the quality is wonderful.

Loved this old movie-we pretended we were at the local theater and ate popcorn while we watched it.