Wordiezett So much average

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Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Sam Panico Jack Arnold, the director of the two previous films, graduated to Universal's A-list and John Sherwood, a long-time assistant director, took over. It's the only film of the three not to be shot in 3-D.Despite how we saw the Gill-man get shot to death, he somehow survived and is somewhere in the Everglades. Dr. William Barton (Jeff Morrow, This Island Earth, Octaman) is pretty much insane, a man driven to capture the merman and abuse his wife Marcia (Leigh Snowden, who was in the same Universal acting classes as Clint Eastwood, James Garner and John Saxon). The dude loses his mind any time she is near their guide, Jed Grant (Gregg Palmer, who appeared in many of John Wayne's films).For some reason, Marcia joins Jed and Dr. Tom Morgan (Rex Reason, who has a name like a pro wrestler or a Stan Lee character, but he was an actor who appeared in films like This Island Earth and TV's The Roaring 20's) on a dive, but she somehow goes crazy and overcome with the "raptures of the deep." Also known as nitrogen narcosis, this creates a mental state similar to doing nitrous oxide. It causes Marcia to take off all her scuba gear and the guys have to rescue her.Of course, the Gill-man follows her and he gets shot with a spear gun, to which he looks right at the crew and seems to want to say, "Come on, dude." Then, they set him on fire!This all leads to our underwater pal being in need of surgery from Dr. Borg and Dr. Johnson. And why do they do all this? They want to see if the Creature can help people survive in space! Well, all their work costs the monster his gills and now, he has lungs that can breathe our air. He also has more human skin, so he has to wear clothes.The doctors try and get the Gill-Man to live among humans, but he gradually becomes depressed, staring at the ocean. He even tries to dive into it and swim back home, but he can no longer breathe as he once did. It's horrible. Seriously, this movie makes me so upset, as they take everything from him and he gets nothing back in return. Even when he saves some animals from a lion or tries to attack Barton when he kills Jed in a jealous rage, everyone thinks the worst of our undersea friend.At the end, he finally makes it back to the beach and just stares at the water, unsure what world he finally belongs in. It's the most unsettling and upsetting of endings, on par with Son of Kong. There are no easy answers - man has put the Creature in this place and nothing can return him back to the home he misses so much.

Leofwine_draca THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US is the third and final of the trilogy that began with CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON and followed with REVENGE OF THE CREATURE. While I appreciate that the writers of this third instalment wanted to do something a bit different to what had come previously, there's no denying that THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US is a low budget effort that disappoints slightly.The problem with this film is its predictability. It starts off on a usual footing with the main characters going on a creature hunt. One of them is played by B-movie regular Jeff Morrow, who you may or may not have seen in THE GIANT CLAW. The usual murky underwater photography follows, and then the film's highlight comes, an outstanding moment in which the Creature attacks. From this point in the film becomes something of a re-run of MIGHTY JOE YOUNG, with the Creature reinvented as a tragic antihero.There's a fair amount of padding in what is already a rather short film, and a lot of scenes of characters standing around and yapping. The characters aren't very interesting and the Creature himself is a bit of an oddball, looking like a hulking Michael Myers clone in a fish head mask rather than the lithe and graceful figure of the past two films. It only starts picking up again at the climax. It's not a bad film per se, but it could have been so much better...

Rainey Dawn I enjoy watching this third and final film in the series but I will say it's the least of my favorite among the trilogy. The creature is recaptured and turned into an air-breather by science in order to study him more.I feel they spent too much time on the relationship between Dr. Barton and his wife Marcia. I would rather that screen time were spent studying the creature on a deeper level than that of jealously from a man (Dr. Barton) and his wife. This is a creature feature and would have loved the film had it's focus a little bit more that way.I like the idea that Dr. Morgan wants the creature treated better, that he responds to the way he is treated.Again, my heart is for the creature that simply wanted to be left alone in the Amazon where he is from - now he is a land creature. In the end, he is on the loose and now must further adapt, being a creature of the land now. Poor thing.7/10

Hitchcoc Our friend the "Creature" is again under assault from people wanting to exploit him. An expedition is launched to the Everglades and fish finding devices are able to figure out where he is. After numerous efforts, he is finally subdued after being doused with gasoline. These "scientists" have the idea of transforming him into an air breathing superman. I guess it's to skip over the natural evolutionary process of nature. He becomes a sad figure, wearing an idiotic suit and walking around an electrified pen. He is treated with malice by the leader of the expedition, who spends more time dealing with his wife, whom he doesn't trust, that he does on the mission on hand. Anyway, the creature ends up in Sausalito, California, in the San Francisco Bay. Not a bad episode, once again showing the darker side of science. Rex Reason provides an apt counter to the evil man of science.