Curse of the Swamp Creature (1966)

When a party of oil surveyors comes upon the isolated laboratory of the mad Dr. Simond Trent, he turned one of them into a grotesque amphibious creature, continuing a series of experiments he conducted on the local swamp people. Product Description

Was there a purpose for this???

SOme films inspire you, others can change your life, and still others are grand achievemnts that all people can praise. This film leaves you wondering why anyone bothered to even attempt this project.

I don't know who did the transfer, but the picture is terrible. However judging from the cheap production, I don't think the film was all that high quality to begin with.

There are two stories in the plot that weave together. A murdering pair of lovers are trying to find oil in a swamp. I don't believe they own the land and I don't know how they intend to get the rights to the oil, but they kill a surveyor and trick his partner into taking them into the swamp. It makes little sense. The other half of this story is the mad scientist who lives in the swamp. He is obsessed with 'backwards evolution' and is trying to revert a person back into a repitle.

Now this mad scientist looks like a high school chemistry teacher who has taught one too many classes. He is both sinister and dorky. So it is up to the viewer to decide if this guy is a great actor and playing down the role, or if this is a bad actor who is overacting. In any case, this is one of the worst mad scientists I have ever seen.

All of his experiments that go wrong, he feeds to his alligators. Now follow me on this. He has a greenhouse with a swimming pool in it where he keeps his gators, but when they show the gators eating the victims, you can tell it is stock footage of gators in a river. Ingenious directing here.

Well as you might have guessed, the oil seeking people end up at the home of the mad scientist. There they meet the mad scientists wife, who is a real hottie. The mad scientist decides to take the woman calling herself Mrs. West and making her his experiment. This one works, but maybe he shouldn;t have bothered.

The creature that he creates looks like a 10 year old's Halloween costume. It is beyond bad, it is just embarrassing. Roger Corman had better monsters than this.

To round it out we have the Swamp People. The natives hate the mad scientist because he kidnaps people for his experiments. They finally have had enough and decide to storm the house, well at least the back yard.

I honestly believe if I had a camcorder and a free weekend, I could make a better movie. May 6, 2007

Very bad from a very bad director...

This is from the same guy who directed ATTACK OF THE EYE CREATURES that MST3K riffed on when they were on Comedy Central and this is along the same quality.If you like bad movies,then get it,but if not,skip it entirely! Too bad MST3K didn't do this one because it is a perfect movie for them to do...Buy at your own risk!! November 16, 2006

John Agar's curse

I bought this mainly because I'm a John Agar fan ("Tarantula", "The Brain from Planet Arous", former husband to Shirley Temple) which is why I'm giving it four stars. Otherwise it is a fairly slow-moving monster flick which reminds me a lot of the 50's monster flick "Voodoo Woman". July 9, 2006

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