Saturday, April 5, 2014

Curse of the Swamp Creature (1966)

How bad is it? It's extremely cheap and cheesy.
Should you see it? It's slow, but it has it's charms, so... yes.

Larry Buchanan made a number of films on the Gulf Coast, all very low budget. The reason I know about them is because of a marketing strategy. In the 1960's, television stations needed material, so they bought films and the studios, to make more money, required package deals - if you wanted one good movie, you also had to buy a bunch of others - and very cheaply made movies meant high profits. Thus, television stations showed terrible movies late at night (if I ever get to "Revenge of the Virgins," I'll cover this some more).

The story is about a doctor who's trying to cross people with reptiles. If you think that that was "Attack of the Swamp Creature," that film was crossing with fish. If you think it's like "The Alligator People," well, that movie's not bad. This film is one of Buchanan's better efforts, as it has John Agar as star and the film's incredibly sleazy low-rent atmosphere is somehow compelling. The badly done monster is only seen occasionally, usually picking someone up and throwing them to alligators.

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