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Subject: Creature From The Black Lagoon - Here He Is...


Fox-Mulder ( ) posted Fri, 20 October 2000 at 7:19 PM · edited Tue, 19 November 2024 at 9:42 AM

Attached Link: Creature From The Black Lagoon - Here He Is...

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Well, speak of the devil... here he is Koz. But this is just for jogging the minds of Poser Character Creators. Trivia fans note: The Tim Allen movie "Galaxy Quest" featured the Creature as the Arch-Villian foe of Tim Allen in that movie (a bit of Retro-Nostalgia and another "in" joke within that movie). Here's some other Creature Links: http://matineetoday.com/pages/Creature.html http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2084/gilltrivia.html


Scarab ( ) posted Fri, 20 October 2000 at 7:51 PM

I.....do not recall the Black Lagoon creature in Galaxy Quest..... Scarab <-I'm sure I didnt....


willf ( ) posted Fri, 20 October 2000 at 8:34 PM

I've seen both movies several times & don't recall that insider joke either, it must be realated to that "missing link". This sure would be a cool character but way beyond my capabilities. I think I could learn to draw him faster.


Fox-Mulder ( ) posted Fri, 20 October 2000 at 9:58 PM

You guys must have seen a different movie than I did. Remember the Alien character on the spaceship where Tim Allen and friends are taken? He has a Darth Vader-like voice. His henchmen also looked just like him. They also tortured the good Alien's leader. Those guys were all modeled after the "Creature".(You guys remember that don't you? I stopped taken drugs in the 70's so while my mind ain't that good, I can remember most things- but then again I could be going nuts also.) As an example of how I may be losing it (and another, and more easier character for you guys to create) is: "The Man With X-Ray Eyes" I remember seeing this movie as a kid in 1954 (shows you how old I am) and remembered it as "The Man With White Eyes". However Koz pointed out it was the former name. It was a Roger Corman Classic and it really freaked me out as a little kid: From: WWW.AllMovie.Com Filmed under the working title X, this Roger Corman masterwork (Rated Four Stars) was released in most areas as X The Man with the X-Ray Eyes. Ray Milland plays Dr. Xavier, who experiments with a new, far-reaching form of vision. A compassionate doctor (Diane Van der Vlis) attempts to cure Milland, but his powers increase to the point that he can see into deep spacelosing his earthly eyesight as a result. The film ends at the revival meeting of preacher John Dierkes, who unknowingly provides Milland the only solution to his hellish dilemma: "If thine eye offends thee, pluck it out." Among the most stylistic of Corman's films with modern-day setting.


willf ( ) posted Fri, 20 October 2000 at 11:03 PM

I'll grant that there is a resemblance to the characters between the aliens & the Creature but I don't recall any of the situations between the two movies being similar (I dropped the drug thing too when I was drafted). Perhaps I was distracted by Tims' co-stars. In any event did you check the 3D Comic Collective site? There is a nice Creature scene there done by Marty Engle: http://www.3d-cc.com/images/MartyE01.html Can't tell if it's a Poser figure or not though. Also, I think Dan DeCourt did a gill morph for the mermaid he had/has in the freestuff section. Havn't tried it but it may be a starting point. As for The Man with X-Ray Eyes (I was only three in 1954) I do remember seeing that in Famous Monsters magazine, perhaps I still have something around.


Scarab ( ) posted Sat, 21 October 2000 at 12:58 AM

About the only resemblance I can see between the alien in Galaxy Quest and the "Lagoon" creature is that: 1) they each have one head 2) they each have two arms 3) they each have two legs 4 neither has a discernable nose.... up to number four, you could have included Sigourney Weaver...but she also had two.....never mind. Scarab


koz ( ) posted Sat, 21 October 2000 at 1:34 AM

thanx for the great pics, Fox. Hope this sparks some imaginations(i.e. modelmakers)Also, if you ever watched the old t.v. series "The Munsters", the creature made an occasional appearance as "Uncle Gil" dressed in an overcoat, scarf & bowler hat, being as he was from "across the pond". As for willf's reply about not being born until '54, I wasn't born until '55! That's why God invented "Creature Features", "Thriller", etc.,so us little kids could get the begeesus scared out of us on late saturday nights for years to come! (The Man With The X-Ray Eyes wasn't made until 1963.)


Fox-Mulder ( ) posted Sat, 21 October 2000 at 2:19 AM

Koz- Actually it was made in 1953. I know because I checked a movie reference, and also because I was a little kid when it first appeared- scaring the hell out of me. I remembered it as the "Man with White Eyes" because that's what happened when he turned on the x-rays looking at people. But they may have been black, as you remembered them too. I was so scared at the time I could barely watch any of it (I was I think about 5 years old.)I have never seen it since then, but Ray Milland was the star and it has since become a Four Star Cult Movie Classic of Roger Corman's. I saw it at a U.S. Air Force SAC/MAC base near Sacramento, Ca. back when they still had B-29 bombers- I was a military dependent. (It was a B-29 that dropped the bomb on Japan. And that spun off all the interest in sci-fi movies about nuclear mutations, X-Rays and the very first Alien UFO sightings)


Scarab ( ) posted Sat, 21 October 2000 at 1:41 PM

I seem to recall Millands eyes going through a series of changes as the movie progressed. He wore dark glasses through most of the story but would occasionally take them off. There was a point where he had been reduced to eking out a living as a "faith-healer/diagnostician" and removed them revealing what looked like ulcers on the sclera....At the end during the tent revival scene I think his sclera had gone black but I seem to remember there being irises of gold. He was crying out that he could "see God" (I think)....the most chilling part of the movie was after he has ripped out his own eyes, turning his face with the bloody sockets to the camera, the scene fades to black at which point we hear Milland's agonized cry...."I CAN STILL SEE!" Brrrrr Scarab


CharlieBrown ( ) posted Mon, 23 October 2000 at 1:28 PM

{His henchmen also looked just like him. They also tortured the good Alien's leader. Those guys were all modeled after the "Creature"} Now that you mention it there IS a resemblance. And I though they'd been pattered after the Gorns of the classic Star Trek. {Also, if you ever watched the old t.v. series "The Munsters", the creature made an occasional appearance as "Uncle Gil" dressed in an overcoat, scarf & bowler hat, being as he was from "across the pond".} He was in more than one episode? Wow, I must have missed a few then... You know, it might be kind of neat to see if someone could do a collection of Classic Movie monsters for Poser - The Gillman, Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster, Bela Lugosi as Dracula, maybe one of the tape-wrapped Invisible Men, etc...


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