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Big Picture: Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
For August, if you’ve ever been on a Florida beach on an August afternoon, you know that light and heat can be shockingly scary too. Even dangerous. And because Big Picture likes being contrary, we’ve decided to lead into spooky season this year with a sampler of frightening films that all operate in the sunlight, though each in different ways. There were a dozen more films we could have put together for this month's theme, and we’re excited to talk about those with you too some day. But for now, come sweat it out with Big Picture and Tampa Theatre. Revelation can be fearsome, and fear can reveal.
FILM SYNOPSIS: 1h 19m / G / Horror, Sci-Fi
All of the old-fashioned monster movies, really all of the old-fashioned monster stories, are premised in the fear of a failure of control. Human appetites that sometimes take over humans: the vampire hungers, the werewolf wants to kill, Frankenstein’s monster wants to belong, the invisible man wants to see but be unseen. To tell those stories, one must accept that, at our worst, people are capable of monstrous acts too. That’s what makes the stories scary. The first times we see the Creature kill are impulsive, just interlopers that happen to surprise him. But the reason he keeps attacking is lust. Like King Kong, Creature from the Black Lagoon is inspired by Beauty and the Beast; like King Kong, Creature is made almost entirely by men, in an entirely patriarchal context, that seem to have missed a critical point: Beauty falls in love with the Beast, too. This Creature wants a woman as a possession, as prey.
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