"Lagoon Creature" Topic

Found this anthropiscene horror, perfect for a certain lagoon-dwelling creature:

From Four A miniatures, sculpted by Paul Muller and with a cracking paintjob by Tim C: link

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That is very cool.

Saw the Movies in my youth … in black & white of course !

Saw the movie again last year at the local art house theater (Sun Ray Cinema – great place), with Julie Adams hosting the event and doing a Q&A session afterwards. Fun. It's actually a pretty darned good movie.

Doug

Twinmirror – Thanks for the link. It's really really nice mini and beautifully painted!

elsyrsyn – A great SF/horror flick. One of the best from the 1950's! Did they show it in the original 3D? Nice to know that Julie Adams is still around. The scene where she's swimming and the creature is following her is one of the most suspenseful ever in a monster movie.

It's actually been years – decades, actually, since I saw the movie!
I remember that I liked it, but not many details…reckon it's time to watch it again!
After which, of course I'll run a game based on the movie…

TwinMirror

I saw it during it's first run back in the 50's. It would be tough to recapture the suspense that I felt back then by watching the film on a small screen in my living room. It was one of my favorites along with "The Thing (from another world)" and "The Incredible Shrinking Man".

I see they carefully took the miniature pic at an angle where you won't notice the zipper …

The Shadow – it was indeed shown in all of its 3d glory, and the 3d (to my surprise) was quite good.

Doug

I just found out about Four A Miniatures recently. They have some great figures! I like the A.L.F. (Alien Life Form)!

Shadow: The Incredible Shrinking Man is actually one of my favourite films. For a 50's sci fi film, it's almost metaphysical…beautifully filmed, with a eeire sense of existential menace as the protagonist shrinks seemingly forever. Great stuff! In a way, it's one of the few films of the period that actually captures the quality of period sci fi fiction (I still think the 50's was a golden age for sci fi writing)

Canuck: yep, Four A is a great company , pretty much run single-handed by Andy. He has a really interesting, ecclectic range of minis – and he's a really friendly guy too!

Ms. Adams, as they used to say, was a dish !!!!

Would people like to see other Pulp type miniatures released?

I do like the idea of the old Horror movie types being done.Wolfman,Dracula,Mummy and Frankensteins Creature.

Paul Muller has really captured the subject very well.

I also love the movie and others from the period too.Me and my brother used to watch them from under the bed covers on little tellies ;).Great times.

I know I would. I do think that you have started out with the best of the "men in rubber suit" 1950s creatures.

OMG! I want one!

Julie Adams is still the hottest girl who ever sported a one piece!

I love the Creature!

Favorite monster of all time!

I went to "Creature Fest" (a yearly CFTBL convention where they filmed it, at Silver Springs). Have a pic with Riccou and everything!

Yes! Count me in!

>>Great stuff! In a way, it's one of the few films of the period that actually captures the quality of period sci fi fiction (I still think the 50's was a golden age for sci fi writing)<<

Richard Matheson wrote the novel "The Shrinking Man" and the screenplay for "The Incredible Shrinking Man". He also wrote "I Am Legend" and numerous "Twilight Zone" episodes.

I agree that the 1950's certainly was a "golden age" of science fiction. Matheson, Bradbury, Asimov, Simak, Heinlein, Clarke, Pohl, Sturgeon and many many others.

That's a lovely miniature and a superb paint job.

John T

Shadow:
Richard Matheson, how could I forget? (Currently I forget a lot, between the daily life-sustaining medicines and two little kids). He's indeed a great writer – innovative ideas always developed with subtlety and precision.
And all the others you mention…most are represented on my bookshelves, a few have mysteriously dissapeared over the years.

Andy:
Yes, please do develop some more B-movie monsters – and a couple from more recent monster movie history.
Since you've got such a great range of snow troopers, how about a couple of half-transformed 'things' to match: a tentacled, open-chested researcher, and a mutated husky? I know that, other than some hard-to-find heroclix, that's a gap in the market!
A really creepy Nosferatu from Murnau's original film would be great.
A classic wolfman as you've already mentioned.
I'd even go for the mutated homocidal siamese paraplegic from 80's cult classic Basketcase! (plus or minus his basket).

You know, it might not be a bad idea to start this collection by running a kickstarter or an in-house voucher scheme, like Micropanzer and CP Models did recently, both of which did well.

I met Ben Chapman a few years ago. He would have been proud to see this.

For fans of the CFTBL, accomplished actress Julia (Julie) Adams was indeed the eye candy of the piece, but all underwater stunt work was performed for her by swimming star Ginger Stanley. Ms Stanley would repeat the stunt work for the successive heroines in the franchise, as she would also for some sequences (perhaps surprisingly)for Esther Williams in "Jupiter's Darling."

Double treats for the viewers…

Now, in an age of remakes, why not this one? At least if they hired Jessica Alba, they wouldn't need a stunt double!

TVAG

Now, in an age of remakes, why not this one? At least if they hired Jessica Alba, they wouldn't need a stunt double!

They were working on a remake but I think it is stuck in development limbo.

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When "The Thing" was produced in 1982 there was a good reason for it, as the alien in Nyby and Hawks' "The Thing (from another world)" was nothing like the extraterrestrial imagined by John W. Cambell in "Who Goes There". So Carpenter's "The Thing", which was much closer to the novel, was a great film of it's own. I can't imagine why anyone would want to remake "The Creature From The Black lagoon". It's about as good as it can get as it is.

I agree. Unless a remake brings something significantly interesting to a story (and I don't mean Ms Alba's exquisite form), I can't see the point of remaking a classic film.
There are a few exceptions: amongst other things, Herzog's Nosferatu explored the emptiness and loss of the monster, and developed it's dwelling-as-creature in a way entirely different from the looming shadows of the expressionist original; Carpenter's the Thing, as you mention.
On the whole, though, remakes are generally the low-risk stakes of a hollywood producer's gambler mentality.

There's been a slew of pretty poor films riffing on the 'Black Lagoon, none come even close to the original.

Right this would seem to be the right time to ask about another old black and white movie.I saw this as a kid and can only remember a few things.There were people who were looking for Shangrilar and had to go through snowy mountains which were guarded by Yeti type creatures.

Any idea's on which movie this would be?

Thanks also for the orders that have came in.They are now packed and posted.

I also think that remakes are never as good as the original movies.It may just be that we all know what is going to happen so the wow factor is not there for us.

Watched the 47 Ronin last night and thought that was pretty good.It now has me digging out my Clan war miniatures and Perry Samurai too ;).

Oh man, That is nice!

RebelMike
Rebelminis.com

Hi Andy,
I have vague memories of some old hollywood adventure film where the climbers are searching for shgri-la and encounter yetis, but I may just be conflating my memories of films like Lost Horizon and the Abominble Snowman, together with recent films like the third Mummy film, which does indeed feature yetis guarding shangri-la.
But I hope there was such a film as you describe, because I really want to see it!

BTW, I saw the trailer for the 47 Ronin, and I have to admit that I want to see it – even if, or perhaps because, it differs so wildly from the original legend!

That is very cool!!