Some special effects age better than others.
Have you watched how actor Lon Chaney, Jr. becomes the Wolf Man recently?
The fuzzy, slowly morphing trickery looks as cheap as something you could whip up in your basement with a Flip camera and and a Mac.
And then there’s The Creature – Full name: Creature from the Black Lagoon.
In the pantheon of movie monsters, people always talk about Frankenstein’s Monster, the Wolfman and Dracula.
Why not mention The Creature, a beastie whose scaly suit circa 1954 remains one of Hollywood’s most perfect makeup creations?
The Creature needs a publicist, obviously.
Turns out a “Creature” remake is in the works – heading our way in 2001 from the director of “Sahara.”
Maybe The Creature should stay retired.
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I get that Hollywood has been making remakes, sequels and reboots since “The Great Train Robbery,” but this is getting ridiculous. Is it me or is the remake/sequel/reboot train accelerating out of control?
One of the big disagreements with my dad is over Sahara. He thought it was a good movie (he sucks up everything the author dishes out) and I felt it was the ultimate exercise in action-adventure platitudinal film making, complete with the polluter-in-chief snark near the end. The climax had to be amongst the most comedicly contrived and hacked in any big-budget movie.