Curse Of The Swamp Creature
Picture: C
Sound: C- Extras: D Film: C-
For kicks, Elite Entertainment has issued the 1966 Larry
Buchanan howler Curse Of The Swamp Creature, where an expedition in the
name of science turns up a mad scientist creating a monster that looks more
like a bad Halloween costume than a real menace. Though this is low budget Horror filmmaking at its most
laughable, it is still more entertaining than the endlessly bad and highly overbudgeted
genre disasters we have seen lately, a fact that is scarier than many actual
Horror scripts.
The unknown cast does a half-hearted acting job
throughout, though they look Shakespearian as compared to the visual effects
and the sluggish pacing does not help.
Still, it is from a later golden period of bad B-movie filmmaking when
you could always rely on low-budget productions to have a unique look and feel
to them. There is a fun in their
awkwardness, roughness and inexperience.
They never try to be something they are not and that is ultimately art
of their charm, even when Joe Bob Briggs and the MST3K team are not
around. It is still pretty bad, though
and could have made the 50 Worst Movies Ever Made DVD.
The 1.33 X 1 image is in bad shape for its age, with a
worn print, but even in all that you can tell that the film had decent color in
its time. The Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono is
even worse with poor fidelity and a sound that is a good few generations
down. There are no extras, but why no
spoofy commentary?
- Nicholas Sheffo
