richard denning

It's a B-cember to Remember here at Spooky Tuesday! To finish the year in festive fashion, we decided to do one last lil theme month and dedicate December to B horror movies, so of course we had to start with a classic. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) may have marked the end of the monster movie era, but it laid the ground work for a whole bunch of famous scary movies that followed. Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water is an obvious one — but Steven Spielberg was taking notes for Jaws, too. On our latest episode, we're talking film history, four foot dicks, and lighting things on fire.

References:

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/a-brief-history-of-the-creature-from-the-black-lagoon-franchise/

https://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/from-the-deep-on-the-staying-power-of-creature-from-the-black-lagoon

https://www.monstersofmakeup.com/2021/02/10/making-up-the-creature-from-the-black-lagoon/

https://www.geekslop.com/life/fads-and-trends/fads-and-trends-1900/2010/the-3-d-movie-craze-of-the-1950s

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Creature-from-the-Black-Lagoon

https://colinmcmahonauthor.com/2020/04/16/why-creature-from-the-black-lagoon-has-become-more-horrifying-with-time/

https://filmschoolrejects.com/creature-from-the-black-lagoon-real-designer/

A group of explorers travel down the Amazon and invade the home of a merman. He doesn't take kindly to it. Ashley, Matt and Aaron talk about the 1954 Universal classic.