Curse of the Swamp Creature

Curse of the Swamp Creature is a 1966 American film directed by Larry Buchanan. Although Buchanan was producing extremely low budget 16mm color remakes of American International Pictures scifi movies for television distribution around this time, he claimed this was an original even though it bears more than a few striking similarities to the 1957 AIP film Voodoo Woman.

Deep in the rural swamps of Texas the reclusive and ruthless wifeabusing mad scientist Dr. Simond Trent is conducting experiments in his laboratory on the local impoverished voodooworshiping black natives in an attempt to discover the secret to reversing evolution, feeding the failures to the alligators he keeps in his covered outdoor swimming pool. When a party of oil surveyors comes upon his isolated yet strangely suburbanstyle home he decides to take the final step and turn the duplicitous female leader of the expedition into a grotesque and virtually indestructible amphibious Fish Man so that he can take his revenge upon the world.Despite showing the monster very prominently on the posters of the film, which bill it as an underwater terror from another age, other than brief, partial glimpses down into the mistfilled glass tank where its body is being modified from its original human form, the titular burly, bald, Spockeared and slitpupiled, protruding ping pong balleyed creature only appears at the climax of the film for less than five minutes before meeting its demise, and no scenes take place underwater. ........

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