Creature from the Black Lagoon: Critic Reviews

This adventure has no depth.

Jack Arnold has a flair for this sort of thing, and if there really is anything frightening about a man dressed up in a rubber suit with zippers where the gills ought to be, Arnold comes close to finding it.

Imbued with great atmosphere by director Jack Arnold, the film is genuinely frightening, but also elicits a certain amount of pathos for the creature.

The underwater sequences were excellently shot by Havens, and the make-up for the half man, half fish was a masterful creation by Bud Westmore and Jack Keven.

The routine story is mightily improved by Arnold's sure sense of atmospheric locations and by the often sympathetic portrait of the monster.

Very neat

As directed by Jack Arnold, the film suffers from silly stretches of dialogue and wooden acting, but the underwater footage is still beautiful, and Adams radiates a strong, sexy screen presence.

Creepy underwater horror flick. Ahead of its time.

Incluindo um curioso subtexto ecologico, o filme envelheceu bem: pode ate nao assustar como na epoca de seu lancamento, mas continua interessante.

Great monster suit. Not much of a movie

One of the best of the 1950's creature features. (By a long shot.)

Tremendous chilling fun, whether in 3-D or no. And Julia Adams is still hot in that swimsuit.

Its solitary aim was to exploit the viewer's fear of the unknown.

Cool creature!

This is still a decent movie and a good example of the monster movie genre.

[A] B movie classic.

A classic horror that warms the heart.