The Creature Walks Among Us movie review

The Creature Walks Among Us is the third and final installment in the Universal Pictures Creature From The Black Lagoon series, and was released in 1956. In this movie a team of scientists and the beautiful wife of the lead scientist search the Everglades for the Creature. They find it, and try to capture it, but in the process end up lighting it on fire, which causes it to be severely burned. The creature's gills are destroyed and it can no longer use them to breath, but they find that the creature has a fully developed set of lungs, and under its scales it has human skin, and that the creature is capable of living on land. Dr Barton, the leader of the expedition, is a cold-hearted and disturbed man, who wants to use the creature to prove his theories, and he refuses to listen to the other scientists, he is also very abusive and controlling of his wife. They get the creature who is no longer capable of surviving in water, to Dr Barton's compound near San Francisco, and put him in a cage. Throughout this time, there has been this other scientist who has been trying to force himself onto Dr Barton's wife, and this all leads to the climactic scene with Dr Barton and the man that is trying force himself on his wife and the creature, which leads us to the sad end of the Creature trilogy. This movie is beautifully shot, with amazing underwater footage, as well as beautiful clear night scenes. The film is beautifully restored for the Legacy Collection, with clean and crisp sound and image. The story is interesting, with a lot of elements of science and scientific theories thrown in. There i also an interesting sub plot about a wife who is in a marriage with someone she doesn't love, and how his abuse is killing her spirit, and also interesting depiction of how some men feel that women are possessions either because of marriage or because of desire, and we see a woman stand up and resist this, a woman who sees herself as an equal to her male counterparts and as a strong individual. I feel that this is kind of bold for 1956, and a bit of a change over the last movie's depiction of men fighting over a woman and her being a passive character. I feel like this movie is well cast, and that the actors did a great job of playing their parts convincingly. This movie definitely adds things to the series, the creature looks amazing, and it is interesting to see his evolution. I mean other than suffering from some of the elements of its time, I feel like this is an amazing movie, and definitely a classic. Would I recommend this movie? Yes, most definitely, it really is a great movie, and it is so beautifully restored on the Universal Legacy Collection series. Definitely a must see for fans of 1950s creature features, as well as science fiction and horror fans. I love that it plays on the common monster movie theme of the monster becoming more human than some of the humans in the movie, and I like how it is done here, with the juxtaposition of the cruel cold-hearted scientist, and the creature who has become docile in its captivity. Like we must ask ourselves while watching Frankenstein, who is the real monster, the human or the "monster", the same is true for this amazing movie. Definitely a must see classic movie, which I highly highly recommend. Though I do recommend watching the other two movies first, as the series does build from the first movie through the last.