Arthur A. Ross
1956
This one's a winner purely for the bizarre factor. The third and final installment of the ' Creature of the Black Lagoon' series finds the gill-man land bound and decked out in a suit.
Another fishing party of scientists manages to capture the creature, but only after horribly disfiguring it with a match and gasoline facial. Studying the monster at its sickbed geneticist William Barton and maniacal mad scientist Tom Morgan find out that the beast has developed lungs and can mutate and evolve at an incredibly fast rate.
Of course a whole slew of debates about scientific advancement and human nature are schlepped in the ring to go a few rounds. Glittering eyed, wife beating sociopath Tom Morgan believes the creatures unique makeup could be harnessed to "send man into space." Cheesecake pinup Leigh Snowden can't get a break: when hubby Morgan's not taking swings at her, a barrel chested swabbie from the boat is constantly trying to rape her. With all this going on its no surprise that all the creature really wants is to go back to the briny deep.
A nice highlight is the creature manhandling a ferocious mountain lion Andre the Giant style. The makeup they use on the creature and the suit the put him in really have to be seen to be believed.
Review By Brett A. Scieszka
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