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THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON Screening at Schlafly Bottleworks Next Thursday
“Not since the beginning of time has the world beheld terror like this!”
Gills, webbed hands, claws, an ugly face only a mother could love, and a body full of scales, THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON from 1954 is easily the greatest man-in-a-monster-suit movie ever made. The celebrated sequence where the Gill Man is swimming along below white one-piece-wearing star Julie Adams is a sequence of beauty, grace, menace and sensuousness unrivalled by anything on screen before or since.
Check out my interview with Julie Adams HERE
THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON may be 59 years old, but it still holds up as a very entertaining film, with plenty of thrills and chills of the old school kind. Nothing blows up and no-one cusses. If it was made today, all you’d hear would be “I’ll kill that muthaf***ing fish-stink bastard!” and every now and then someone would fire a nuclear armed spear gun or something similarly over the top…….
But it wasn’t made today. It was made in 1954 and next week, you’ll have the chance to see THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON on a big screen and help raise money for a good cause as part of the “Culture Shock’ films series.
The screening is at 7pm Thursday, May 1st. The location is Schlafly Bottleworks – 7260 Southwest Ave St Louis, MO 63143. Doors open at 6:30pm.
$6 suggested for the screening. A yummy variety of food from Schlafly’s kitchen is available as are plenty of pints of their famous home-brewed suds. Jimmie the bartender will be on hand to take care of you.
“Culture Shock” is the name of a film series here in St. Louis that is the cornerstone project of a social enterprise that is an ongoing source of support for Helping Kids Together (http://www.helpingkidstogether.com/) a St. Louis based social enterprise dedicated to building cultural diversity and social awareness among young people through the arts and active living.
The films featured for “Culture Shock” demonstrate an artistic representation of culture shock materialized through mixed genre and budgets spanning music, film and theater. Through ‘A Film Series’ working relationship with Schlafly Bottleworks, they seek to provide film lovers with an offbeat mix of dinner and a movie opportunities.
We hope to see everyone next Thursday night!
And since I’m always looking for an excuse to show off my collection of Creature from the Black Lagoon toys:
And check out the THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON trailer:
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