And on the seventh day, there was a classic. Yup I dipped back into my past for this one. I can remember being a kid and watching this one on TV on many a lazy Sunday afternoon. Hopes were high that it would hold up to my nostalgic feelings.
Swamp Thing is one of those movies that just stand out for many reasons, but though none are extremely amazing on their own, as a whole they make a damn fine movie. Swamp Thing is about a scientist that is trying to do good work, and is on the cusp of a major break-thru when, you guessed it, things go wrong. There’s an explosion, recombinant DNA, and a lost formula. Naturally bad guy wants it back for nefarious purposes, and will take out whoever gets in his way.
Luis Jourdan plays evil mastermind Arcane and Adrienne Barbeau plays the female lead in one of John Carpenter’s earlier movies. I guess what I never paid attention to when I was a kid is that the actor in the rubber suit as the Swamp Thing is a guy named Dick Durock. Nothing special about that other than the obvious humor involved in his name. Other characters are played by people you have seen before but can’t figure out where. My favorite actor has to be Reggie Batts. He plays the kid that Adrienne find in a local gas station. I enjoyed his performance even as a kid, and I actually forgot that he was in the movie and was totally excited when he popped up on screen.
This movie really is good. Like I said nothing sets it up for greatness, but it is just one of those movies that if it is on, I just can’t turn it off. I guess I wasn’t alone considering that it had a rash of sequels as well as a television series spin off, even a comic book line. For a movie about a guy in a rubber plant suit, it does well with what was available at the time. They brought back Piranha, why not this too?
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