Swamp Thing (film)

Swamp Thing is a 1982 American science fiction film written and directed by Wes Craven, based on the DC Comics character of the same name created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. It tells the story of scientist Alec Holland Ray Wise who becomes transformed into the monster Swamp Thing Dick Durock through laboratory sabotage orchestrated by the evil Anton Arcane Louis Jourdan. Later, he helps a woman named Alice Adrienne Barbeau and battles the man responsible for it all, the ruthless Arcane.

Filming occurred primarily on location in Charleston, South Carolina, and nearby Johns Island. The character of Alice Cable is a combination of two characters from the Swamp Thing comics, Matthew Cable and Abby Arcane who in the comics married both Cable and Holland.Swamp Thing received generally average to positive reviews from critics, with the movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes retroactively giving the film a score of 64 based onreviews. Roger Ebert gave the film three out of a possible four stars, saying Theres beauty in this movie, if you know where to look for it. ........

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