to A very low budget movie on monster in a lake Small Town Terror, 1979 swamp Quirky enough to make it noticeable and A wizard that’s bad enough to make him quite entertaining. Its highlights include an emotion-packed script and Fish man costume Looks like a middle school art project.
Since it was added to Shudder’s streaming library this month, it’s odd that Shudder, Prime Video, and other sources are labeled as being from 1984, which seems pretty late if you actually watched the movie and listened to its pure ’70s gold ballad. , “Walk With Me” – we decided it was time to revisit this waterlogged must-have classic. It’s not a great work of cinema, but there are far worse ways to spend 90 minutes.
Directed by Don Kessler and written by Carl Kitt, who have a few other credits between them, swamp It was filmed in Wisconsin, but we got minimal setting info outside of nearby Lake Wahlberg where all the action takes place. The movie is called swamp, The lake is called “Bug Lake”, and there is indeed a lake more than a swamp, but we are still supposed to think that there is some kind of swamp situation or black lake situation at hand. The plot looks like a proto-X-Files Spinning Monster of the Week as we see a poacher using dynamite as his hunting method accidentally wakes up something that had lurked in the lake for years. He doesn’t live long enough to regret it, and soon the creature moves on to a pair of “town streeters” who reluctantly visit the area with their Bedweiser-fed husbands.
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The cops, the town doctor, and Jenny, a local pathologist played by Gloria DeHaven—one of Hollywood’s few veterans, along with Aldo Ray, Marshall Thompson, and Leo Gordon—are forced to deal with a strange new menace in their community that’s draining the blood of his victims for unknown reasons. (However, the man who runs the town’s gun store isn’t exactly upset about all the new business he’s suddenly started.) Jenny wonders, in one of her few lines of dialogue that aren’t full of medical jargon. While the swamp vampire is certainly a monster worth building a creature feature around, swamp’s antagonist is perhaps more exotic, and gets a wonderfully murky backstory from Adrianna, the self-described movie “hag of the woods,” also played by DeHaven in a move that feels more economical than anything else.
Adriana explained to the beast: “Ancient, long dead through the centuries. But alive! It feeds on blood while awake, and once full it sleeps. Years ago, it would have slept a thousand months. Now, many go deeper into the forest and stir it up. So You must feed again. He (sleeps) in the mud at the bottom of the lake.” We come to know that Adrianna has a psychic connection to the creature, and also shares blood with it, something to do with the creature’s need for human blood to produce eggs that will ensure future generations of swamp monsters. Science, with all the genetic talk of cutting-edge microscopes and chemical compounds, is a little fuzzy here.
But that’s forgivable — and in fact, the scenes in Jenny’s lab are full of unintended fun and what we have to believe is the sexual tension between her and Dr. Thompson Wednesday. swamp It runs barely 90 minutes, so there isn’t much time between attacks, which is generally rendered by showing the creature (which has an amazing diagonal growl) in silhouette, as a disembodied claw, or just the viewer’s imagination as the final victim turns to the camera and screams. with his head. but swamp Rubber-suit monster fans aren’t denied some of the tastiest cheesecake they’ll ever see, with a scene filmed in full daylight showing the fish-headed monster in his arm-waving glory, groaning as he sprays pesticide he thinks damned stupid humans will curb his terrible reign. . You definitely end up rooting for the guy, and the movie knows that — and it’s not for nothing that we hope to write “The End?” After the big finale. Unfortunately, we are still waiting The swamp 2: back 2 the lake.
swamp Streams on Shudder starting April 10th.
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