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Revenge of The Creature ala MST3K

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I remember watching Revenge of The Creature on TV’s Creature Features back in the 60s and 70s with my kid brothers and sisters. It’s the second film in the three-part Creature From the Black Lagoon series.

Although not as good as 1954′s Creature From the Black Lagoon, this 1955 sequel is still a solid horror classic. I’m surprised there haven’t been any remakes, yet…. More on that in a minute.

Revenge of The Creature focuses on a second scientific expedition to the Amazon in search of the “Gill Man,” who was leading a pretty happy aquatic existence until civilization visits his neck of the swamps.

Being scientific types, the expedition’s team uses a highly-technical, scientific-type method to capture the hapless Creature. They throw sticks of dynamite into the lagoon, killing God-knows-how-many fish and knocking out the Gill Man.

He’s transported to a Florida Oceanographic Institute and when he wakes up, he’s understandably pissed off and goes on a killing rampage.

The Creature is eventually subdued, chained, trained, falls in love, gets jealous, escapes, kidnaps a girl, kills some more people, gets cornered, shot, and … well, you’ll see .

Revenge of The Creature stars popular actors John Agar (Tarantula, The Mole People, The Brain from Planet Arous, Flesh and the Spur, Hand of Death, Sands of Iwo Jima, and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon) and Lori Nelson.

If you look quickly – and I mean quickly, you’ll catch a very young Clint Eastwood. (Hint, Clint’s the guy with the rodent in his pocket.)

The only version of Revenge of the Creature I could find online is from a 1997 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 – a great show, but the movie deserves a little better.

REMAKE IN THE WORKS: Good news and bad news here.

Two “remakes” of The Creature From the Black Lagoon are supposedly in the works.

First the bad news: Universal Studios is remaking The Creature From the Black Lagoon as a MUSICAL in July of 2009!

Now the good news: Another remake of the movie is going through rewrites and pre-production.