Curse of the Swamp Creature (1968)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Simply A Masterpiece

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

CURSE OF THE SWAMP CREATURE is a dreadful creature feature from monster movie maker Larry Buchanan, a man with seemingly little talent for cinema, unlike say somebody like Don Dohler. It comes as no surprise to me that this pitiful attempt at a film didn't even make it to cinemas, instead being released straight to television by AIP.The story is your usual one about a mad scientist with his own theories of evolution doing experiments on people and thus accidentally creating the titular creature. There's a lot of hanging around at a swimming pool and a stock hero role for an ageing John Agar, no stranger to B-movie fare. The titular creation doesn't appear until the last five minutes and until that point it's endless boredom and lousy production values, with many scenes too dark to make out what's going on - not that anything is going on, other than the director treading water until the running time is complete.

Although Dr. Simon Trent, in the 1966 shlock classic "Curse of the Swamp Creature," is a completely obnoxious, homicidal, bullying madman, you've got to at least give him credit for one thing: He keeps his pet alligators well fed! Every time one of his experiments on evolution reversal or possibly the creation of an artificially gilled fishman (I'm not quite clear on this point) goes awry--which is pretty darn often, actually--his human test subject gets tossed into his front-yard gator pool. A production of American International Television (was this thing actually a TV movie?!?!), this lame little cheapie is a real challenge to sit through. No wonder star John Agar, here a geologist looking for oil near Trent's bayou retreat, seems to be having difficulty keeping his eyes open. Cult actress Francine York is on hand, too, playing Trent's captive wife, and her many charms are mostly wasted here. The film is only 80 minutes long, and yet still feels padded with endless shots of voodoo dancers, alligators, and swamp cruising. Throw in a singularly lame-looking monster who only appears in the picture's final five minutes, the lamest quicksand scene ever committed to film, remarkably poor dialogue, egregious day-for-night shots, incessantly annoying voodoo drumming, and completely uninspired direction by Larry Buchanan and you've got the makings of a real swamp mess indeed. My beloved "Psychotronic Encyclopedia" says that this movie is "an all-time favorite of American insomniacs," and I think I now understand why. This snoozer should put anyone to sleep!

I can't begin to tell you how terrible this bottom-of-the-barrel B movie is!! I myself am a huge fan of B horror films and even I HATED this lame movie. The plot seems to be this, a mad doctor living in the swamp tries to create a monster with his human guests. As though that wasn't a hokey enough storyline, the production values of the film are as flat as a pancake. I've seen student films of much better quality. The swamp creature of the title is beyond goofy-looking and is featured for only a few moments in the climax of the film!! Did I mention the film was dubbed something terrible? It is. One would do better to mute the movie and make-up you're own dialog, it would certainly be more entertaining!Oh yes, and in case you want to know just what the CURSE of the Swamp Creature is, it's this movie. That's all. Augh!BOMB out of ****

I saw this movie on AMC's Monsterfest in Oct. of 2003 it was on at 3 or 4am I had my tape ready & all to record. But the movie wasn't what I expected. I was use to seeing good monster suits like in Octaman & Zaat both from 1972. But over time since 2004 I have grew to like & appreciate Buchanan's stuff. Zontar, The Thing From Venus, was the first I saw. Then The Eye Creatures & so on. So Swamp Creature is a direct remake of Voodoo Woman (1956) it's about this mad scientist named Simon Trent who is trying to make land creatures into sea creatures his several failed experiments with his human subjects ended up in the gator pool. He even ends up using one of his assistants played by Tony Houston. John Agar stars & plays Barry Rogers a Geologist that falls into a plot for money dealing with finding oil. The local Snake Worshiping Natives are restless & know the doctor's evil experiments. Agar & the rest eventually get to their destination & meet the doctor & his charming sexy wife played by Francine York, which looks so gorgeously hot in the red dinner dress if u don't like these movies then at least watch it for her. So the doctor eventually succeeds in creating his fish swamp monster by using the chick posing as Mrs. West. Of course u know it's not going to work with Pat (Francine York) taunting her to show her how Simon ruined her beauty she throws him into the gator pool. This movie isn't for you unless u like B & Z Grade Sci-Fi & Horror Flicks. If u guys like 60's glamor watch it for Francine York at least. She looks stunning in this movie. I think this is Buchanan's best 60's Made For T.V. remake besides Creature Of Destruction from 1967.