Holy cow, why didn't they just get a room … or a romantic comedy or something. I recommend "Tarantula" over "Revenge of the Creature," but they do make a suitable double feature, sharing not only Arnold (and Eastwood) but producer William Alland, actors John Agar and Nestor Paiva, and Henry Mancini stock music.Īt this point, I should mention that protagonists Professor Clete Ferguson (Agar) and Helen Dobson (Lori Nelson) spend most of the second half of "Revenge" locked in suck face embrace. Eastwood helps blow up the title character real good in a preview of his future action hero glory. Eastwood plays the jet squadron leader in "Tarantula," and Mr.
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"Back to the Future Part III" (another Universal sequel) worked in a nod to both "Revenge" and "Tarantula," Eastwood's second appearance in an Universal creature feature / monster movie from 1955 directed by Jack Arnold. He plays college lab assistant Jennings, intended comic relief. "Revenge" proves to be far more enjoyable and memorable than "Jaws 3."Ĭlint Eastwood's motion picture career had to start somewhere, and that somewhere happens to be "Revenge." His one scene occurs somewhere about 10 minutes in. No, when I watched it for the first time, I thought about how much fellow Universal production "Jaws 3" (1983) ripped off from "Revenge." Both movies were made in 3-D and the later sequel borrowed and updated several plot elements from the earlier one, mainly a monster on the loose in an amusement park. "Revenge of the Creature" will seem awful familiar to first time viewers, and not only because it's a sequel to a legendary horror film.
Of course, that meant two sequels, "Revenge of the Creature" in 1955 and "The Creature Walks Among Us" in 1956, and the latter sequel closed out a 31-film run of horror movies for Universal that began with 1925's "The Phantom of the Opera" and continued through Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, and The Wolf Man. 12, 1954, and it became a box office success.
"Creature from the Black Lagoon" premiered Feb. Universal threw all that right out the window during the 1940s and churned out four Mummy, three Invisible Man, four Frankenstein, two Dracula, and five Wolf Man pictures, although the studio mashed just about every monster it had for bashes like "House of Frankenstein," "House of Dracula," and "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" so my numbers might be a slight bit inaccurate. Once upon a time, Universal Studios took more time between sequels: "The Bride of Frankenstein" four years after "Frankenstein," "Dracula's Daughter" five after "Dracula," "The Invisible Man Returns" seven after "The Invisible Man," and "The Mummy's Hand" eight after "The Mummy."
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