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Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Jack Arnold, the director of the two previous films, graduated to Universal's A-list and John Sherwood, a long-time assistant director, took over. It's the only film of the three not to be shot in 3-D.Despite how we saw the Gill-man get shot to death, he somehow survived and is somewhere in the Everglades. Dr. William Barton (Jeff Morrow, This Island Earth, Octaman) is pretty much insane, a man driven to capture the merman and abuse his wife Marcia (Leigh Snowden, who was in the same Universal acting classes as Clint Eastwood, James Garner and John Saxon). The dude loses his mind any time she is near their guide, Jed Grant (Gregg Palmer, who appeared in many of John Wayne's films).For some reason, Marcia joins Jed and Dr. Tom Morgan (Rex Reason, who has a name like a pro wrestler or a Stan Lee character, but he was an actor who appeared in films like This Island Earth and TV's The Roaring 20's) on a dive, but she somehow goes crazy and overcome with the "raptures of the deep." Also known as nitrogen narcosis, this creates a mental state similar to doing nitrous oxide. It causes Marcia to take off all her scuba gear and the guys have to rescue her.Of course, the Gill-man follows her and he gets shot with a spear gun, to which he looks right at the crew and seems to want to say, "Come on, dude." Then, they set him on fire!This all leads to our underwater pal being in need of surgery from Dr. Borg and Dr. Johnson. And why do they do all this? They want to see if the Creature can help people survive in space! Well, all their work costs the monster his gills and now, he has lungs that can breathe our air. He also has more human skin, so he has to wear clothes.The doctors try and get the Gill-Man to live among humans, but he gradually becomes depressed, staring at the ocean. He even tries to dive into it and swim back home, but he can no longer breathe as he once did. It's horrible. Seriously, this movie makes me so upset, as they take everything from him and he gets nothing back in return. Even when he saves some animals from a lion or tries to attack Barton when he kills Jed in a jealous rage, everyone thinks the worst of our undersea friend.At the end, he finally makes it back to the beach and just stares at the water, unsure what world he finally belongs in. It's the most unsettling and upsetting of endings, on par with Son of Kong. There are no easy answers - man has put the Creature in this place and nothing can return him back to the home he misses so much.

A monster movie with a difference: in this one, the monster attacks only when provoked - even seeing an act of violence stirs up its own violent instincts. The monster makeup and rubber suit are good, as are the destruction effects at the end, and there are some long & impressive underwater sequences. The only cast member who deserves equal billing with the creature is Leigh Snowden as a shapely, adventurous but oppressed 1950s wife; her most memorable scene has her suddenly shooting at sharks! The men are interchangeable. **1/2 out of 4.

Directed by John Sherwood, The Creature Walks Among Us is the third and final movie in one of Universal's most beloved monster franchises, that of the Gill-Man of the Black Lagoon. The original is a genre classic, a surprisingly creepy picture given its B-movie shackles that makes powerful use of its man-in-a-rubber-suit special effects. With audiences losing interest in creature features and denying Universal its bread and butter in the process, Creature from the Black Lagoon inspired a quickly-made sequel the following year, Revenge of the Creature, a routine monster movie that proved to be as uninspiring and unimaginative as its title, drawing from what made its predecessor so memorable without any of its skill of execution.This final bow wraps the trilogy up nicely, while facing the wrath of its fans by being rather hesitant to go underwater and taking the evolutionary curiosity in a different direction all together. After the events of Revenge, the creature is at large in Florida, believed to be hiding out in the wetlands of the Everglades. A new crack team of square-jawed scientists and one of their pretty wives head out on a boat in the hope of snaring the beast, although it quickly comes to light that each man may have their own intentions. The handsome Thomas Morgan (Rex Reason) hopes to gain medical insight through experimentation, but the unhinged William Barton (Jeff Morrow) plans to mess with its DNA and creature a whole new species. The presence of Barton's wife Marcia (Leigh Snowden) has testosterone running high, sending Barton slowly mad in the process, while sleazy jungle guide Jed Grant (Gregg Palmer) tries to catch her eye.After an incident leaves the Gill-Man badly burned, the crew tend to him and head for home. The burns peel back to reveal a smoother skin beneath, and the group are shocked to learn that the gill-breather also has lungs. The creature starts to, as the title suggests, walk among us, and is here more human than ever. With this idea, the film harks back to the original and turns its focus on man as the beast. He doesn't even need shackles to walk into his enclosure once he is brought ashore, and is eventually only thrown into a rage by evil acts committed by man. There's no claiming and kidnapping women to be his mate, and at one point he even prevents a rape. There is a startling amount of characterisation for a genre normally so reliant of archetypes, thanks to the script by Arthur A. Ross and strong performances from Morrow and Reason (who appeared together in sci-fi turkey and 'classic' This Island Earth. Given its obvious appeal, the Creature has remained surprisingly untouched by Hollywood's fondness for remakes, and judging from the reaction to Universal's introduction to their planned 'Dark Universe', The Mummy, let's keep it that way.

Our friend the "Creature" is again under assault from people wanting to exploit him. An expedition is launched to the Everglades and fish finding devices are able to figure out where he is. After numerous efforts, he is finally subdued after being doused with gasoline. These "scientists" have the idea of transforming him into an air breathing superman. I guess it's to skip over the natural evolutionary process of nature. He becomes a sad figure, wearing an idiotic suit and walking around an electrified pen. He is treated with malice by the leader of the expedition, who spends more time dealing with his wife, whom he doesn't trust, that he does on the mission on hand. Anyway, the creature ends up in Sausalito, California, in the San Francisco Bay. Not a bad episode, once again showing the darker side of science. Rex Reason provides an apt counter to the evil man of science.