The Creature Chronicles: Exploring the Black Lagoon Trilogy

Weaver, Tom; Schecter, David; Kronenberg, Steve

ISBN 10: 0786494182 ISBN 13: 9780786494187

Publisher: McFarland, 2014

Synopsis

He was the final addition to Universal's "royal family" of movie monsters: The Creature from the Black Lagoon. With his scaly armor, razor claws and a face only a mother octopus could love, this Amazon denizen was perhaps the most fearsome beast in the history of Hollywood's Studio of Horrors. But he also possessed a sympathetic, poignant quality which elevated him fathoms above the many aquatic monsters who swam in his wake. Everything you ever wanted to know about the Gill Man and his mid-1950s film career (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Revenge of the Creature, The Creature Walks Among Us) is collected in this book packed to the gills with hour-by-hour production histories, cast bios, analyses, explorations of the music, script-to-screen comparisons, in-depth interviews and an ocean of fin-tastic photos.

About this title

About the Author

Tom Weaver lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York, and has been interviewing moviemakers since the early 1980s. The New York Times called him one of the leading scholars in the horror field and USA Today has described him as the king of the monster hunters. Classic Images called him "the best interviewer we have today." He is a frequent contributor to numerous film magazines and has been featured in the prestigious Best American Movie Writing. A frequent DVD audio commentator, he is the author of numerous reference and other nonfiction books about American popular culture.

David Schecter has been a writer for more than three decades, and also produces soundtrack recordings for his Monstrous Movie Music CD label, which operates out of Chatsworth, California. He lives in Chatsworth.

Steve Kronenberg is the managing editor of Noir City, the e-magazine published quarterly by the Film Noir Foundation. He lives in Boca Raton, Florida.

Review

"Each movie is examined through an exhaustive account of production history, interviews, biographies, and photographs...packed with first-hand narratives from producers, directors, costume designers, and actors." --Library Journal

"Plumbed with submarine depth and paleontological detail...by the prolific Tom Weaver, who is to monster movies what Jacques Cousteau was to the sea: a tireless investigator, researcher and champion...a definitive work of scholarship...a true trilogy." --The Commercial Appeal

Edition details

• Publisher: McFarland
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0786494182
• ISBN 13: 9780786494187
• Binding: Library Binding
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 408