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Curse of the Swamp Creature

  • TV Movie
  • 1968
  • Unrated
  • 1h 20m
IMDb RATING
2.5/10
774
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Curse of the Swamp Creature (1968)
HorrorSci-Fi

While searching for oil in the deadly swamplands of the Florida Everglades, members of a geological expedition meet an insane doctor who is working on an experiment to create a creature that... Read allWhile searching for oil in the deadly swamplands of the Florida Everglades, members of a geological expedition meet an insane doctor who is working on an experiment to create a creature that is part man and part alligator.While searching for oil in the deadly swamplands of the Florida Everglades, members of a geological expedition meet an insane doctor who is working on an experiment to create a creature that is part man and part alligator.

  • Director
    • Larry Buchanan
  • Writer
    • Tony Huston
  • Stars
    • John Agar
    • Francine York
    • Jeff Alexander
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  • IMDb RATING
    2.5/10
    774
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Larry Buchanan
    • Writer
      • Tony Huston
    • Stars
      • John Agar
      • Francine York
      • Jeff Alexander
    • 38User reviews
    • 25Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    John Agar
    John Agar
    • Barry Rogers
    Francine York
    Francine York
    • Pat Trent
    Jeff Alexander
    • Dr. Simond Trent
    Shirley McLine
    • Brenda Simmons
    Cal Duggan
    • Ritchie
    Charles McLine
    • Rabbit Simms
    Bill McGhee
    Bill McGhee
    • Tracker
    • (as Bill McGee)
    Ted Mitchell
    • Valjean
    Roger Ready
    • Frenchie
    • (as Rodger Ready)
    Bill Thurman
    Bill Thurman
    • Driscoll West…
    Tony Huston
    Tony Huston
    • Tom
    • (as Tony Houston)
    Gayle Johnson
    • Mura
    Michael Tolden
    • Elderly Father
    Annabelle Weenick
    Annabelle Weenick
    • Hotel Clerk
    Patrick Cranshaw
    Patrick Cranshaw
    • Pilot
    • (as Pat Cranshaw)
    J.V. Lee
    • Brother
    Naomi Bruton
    • Marcie
    • Director
      • Larry Buchanan
    • Writer
      • Tony Huston
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The titular creature doesn't actually show up until the last six minutes.
    • Quotes

      Tom: Doctor, I was thinking... just the work that you've done with the crocodiles and taking them back along the evolutionary path and making them into fish would be enough to win you world acclaim.

      Dr. Simond Trent: Yes, but acclaim... that's nothing. To create life, to move it up and down the evolutionary path... that's something. Something I don't you quite appreciate, Tom.

    • Connections
      Featured in Son of Svengoolie: Curse of the Swamp Creature (1966) (1981)
    • Soundtracks
      Music cues
      (uncredited)

      from It Conquered the World (1956)

      Composed by Ronald Stein

    User reviews38

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    A big fishman in a small pond.
    Director Larry Buchanan's Curse of the Swamp Creature is a worthy companion to the parade of "swamp-stomping mad scientist trying to shake off meddlesome interloper" films which populate one of horror's tiniest genres. It's not hard to make waves in such a small pond, and Curse of the Swamp Creature certainly doesn't disappoint devoted horror fans, many of whom follow Larry Buchanan as a kind of successor to Schlock horror's undisputed Grand Champion, Ed Wood.

    The Curse of the Swamp Creature is that he lives at all. In the murkiest reaches of Louisiana's bayou a reclusive scientist experiments with the genetic map and creates a sort of man-phibian out of one of his apprentices. Meanwhile a cadre of well-meaning interlopers and less-well-meaning con-artists threatens the Doctor's harmonious freak-making activities and themselves become fodder for future human-animal hybrids. If they don't stop him, no one will be safe from "The Curse of the Swamp Creature."

    All of the elements of good "bad" cinema are here in spades. Dopey acting, campy dialog, silly monsters, and interior sets that look like someone's Grandma's house got invaded over the weekend and turned into an evil laboratory brimming with everything one would need to do radical genetic engineering. Well, maybe not everything. But he does have an aquarium and some test tubes.
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    • pdthorne
    • Apr 27, 2004

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 1968 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Проклятие болотной твари
    • Filming locations
      • Dallas, Texas, USA(interiors)
    • Production company
      • Azalea Pictures
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 20 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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