jriddle73 — 1 year ago(February 19, 2025 07:20 PM)

Released on this day–19 Feb.–in 1982, Wes Craven's SWAMP THING. Comic-to-screen adaptations were relatively rare at the time. Horror movies were Craven's milieu, and he seemed like a natural fit to birth a movie version of one of the best–though then defunct–horror comics of the previous decade's horror renaissance. The result was very uneven–a genre fan's dream cast, some great, gruesome moments, some blood and thunder, some thud and blunder.
An evaluation and appreciation of it I wrote some years ago:
https://cinemarchaeologist.blogspot.com/2010/03/swamp-thing-1982.html
"The Dig"
http://cinemarchaeologist.blogspot.com/