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The Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day didn’t come here to fight monsters. It’s not equipped for it.
Update: An eagle-eyed reader named Mark Hodgson caught a mistake here. This shot is not from Creature, but from Revenge of the Creature. Now that he points it out, it's fairly obvious, but cut me a little slack. It's been ages since I've seen Revenge. The picture is still awesome, but let the record state this is from Revenge of the Creature.
Original post below:
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
There are some great shots of Creature From the Black Lagoon, some of which have been featured here, but today’s behind the scenes look is a special one. This comes from a family member of one of the crew and is a bit more obscure than a lot of other Creature shots.
Composition, framing and subject are all top notch. I love the onlookers, which makes this photo feel like something out of a Sea World trip… instead of feeding dolphins some dead fish, these guys are gathered around to look at one of the most unique critters ever photographed.
It really is a fantastic pic for a fantastic movie. Enjoy!
Thanks to Nick Clark (whose great-grandfather is the still photographer in the below show) for sending this one along! Click to embiggen!
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
Tomorrow’s behind the scenes pic is more for mom than for dad. Sorry, pops, but you get the rest of the day.
-Quint
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worth remaking, maybe by Peter Jackson, with an emphasis on the creature's history.
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I think this pic is from Revenge of the Creature.
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80's carpenter would have rocked a remake, modern carpenter would have syfy'd a remake Universal seems hell bent of reviving all of it's horror franchises so We'll likely see this sooner rather then later, probabaly directed by len wisemen and staring hayden christianson as the creature
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With Brooke Shields naked tushy
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But dont tell the cats at Universal or they will rape the Gillman to death with a remake. Did anyone here catch the Creature live-show they did at the Universal parks a few years ago? They actually flew in Julie Adams and her kids and grandkids for the premiere,which featured sex and fart jokes and a climax where the lusty Creature was shot full of viagra and grew to super-size. Abomination doesnt begin to cover it. The Universal Monsters BUILT Universal Studios,yet they still get treated with nothing but contempt....even during the Universal Nights of Horror Halloween shows. I wish Guillermo Del Toro would just work out a deal to buy 'em all and then remakes them with the care they deserve.
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June 18, 2011, 5:49 p.m. CST
IF they were to remake this, and I'm not saying Universal should
by Ted Knight
Please use the ‘man in suit’ concept and don’t update the Creature very much! No dreads either! (see the Universal Stage Show version). I nominate Emily Blunt for the Julie Adams role and while there at it just slap an R rating on this sucker & give Blunt a nude swimming rendezvous with the Gill-man.
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June 18, 2011, 6:17 p.m. CST
Universal City gave the Creature long "hair" and made him sing?!!
by MooseMalloy
Man, I'm glad I had already been kicked out of L.A. before that happened.
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June 18, 2011, 6:37 p.m. CST
Gilman is my favorite Universal monster. I don't care what anyone thinks.
by ltgalloway
Something about 'Creature' really sticks with me for some reason. Don't get me wrong. I think Frankenstein is arguably a better crafted film, but there's something about this guy. I think it's because he scares me most. He's perhaps the least human of the lot, and I guess that makes him all the more terrifying. He acts out of primal instinct with little understanding of or regard for humanity, which when compared to the foolishness of the actual humans in the film, is somehow more -- honest? I guess that word will suffice. Anyways, I could go on and on. It's one of my all time favorites. Thanks for posting!
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could be done very realistically, using what we know of genetic engineering. The big questions is: "do you want to start with a monster, or create one piece by piece, as in Outer Limits episode 'The Architects of Fear'"?
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June 18, 2011, 7:46 p.m. CST
Clint Eastwood appears briefly in the second Lagoon movie
by Nasty In The Pasty
He's a lab technician in one scene (he also appears in Tarantula). I actually would love to see a modernized Creature From The Black Lagoon if they stuck to the man-in-suit approach throughout (even the swimming scenes don't require CGI if you have an underwater stuntman as good as Ricou Browning) and respected the material. The 80's Gillman costume from The Monster Squad (designed by Stan Winston) was pretty awesome. Someone like Guillermo Del Toro would make a terrific Gillman movie (but just keep it FAR away from that CGI-abusing hack Stephen Sommers).
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I was definitely wearing a hat when I got in the pool...
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I get the idea that the actor is covering his head to keep the hot sun off the top of that dark rubber mask. He could probably use a nice, wide-brimmed hat. Would have made a better photo, too.
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June 19, 2011, 1:26 a.m. CST
Still among the best suit/makeup jobs ever done! Its "refresh" in Monster Squad is equally good.
by planetran_fan
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If for no other reason that its got a pair of magnificent juggs in it.
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June 19, 2011, 11:35 a.m. CST
It's not enough to have a monster in a movie these days.
by highfunctioningsociopath
You gotta have fucking thousands of them.
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June 19, 2011, 11:40 a.m. CST
Swamp Thing is only a better movie if you see the European version with a naked Adrienne Barbeau
by v3d
But that Swamp Thing suit is sub par.
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His 'Homo Aquaticus' design is truly beautiful. The Creature needs to be thought through like Giger' Alien: horrific and beautiful at the same time. And of kingly bearing, not some skulking animal. And of course, he has to have sex! With the lead actress! And a couple of babes who were hired as extras! That will make it equal to European Swamp Thing.
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June 20, 2011, 10:29 a.m. CST
Lets not forget Abe Sapien as portrayed by Doug Jones
by openthepodbaydoorshal
..not a shabby "gillman" either.
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From the Monster Squad - an awesome homage...
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