The darkness of mankind is often explored in movies where monsters manifest seemingly from nowhere; fear, in cinema, often reveals true identities.<\/p>\n
The idea of a villain leading the \u201cfight\u201d against a strange, often alien creature (or creatures) isn’t something new or original, but it’s still always a challenging pursuit to try and frame humans as bad guys, and to try and make an audience feel sorry for a species they’d never seen before walking into the theatre.<\/p>\n
The Creature Walks Among Us<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 the third and final instalment in the Creature From The Black <\/strong>Lagoo<\/strong>n<\/strong><\/em> series \u2013 introduces a new cast but takes on a classic trope of a human villain holding the piece together. Dr. William Barton (Jeff Morton) is a crazed and abusive scientist looking for the Gill-Man, star of the last two films, who gets badly burned when captured.<\/p>\n When the creature is examined, Gill-Man begins shedding his scales, developing skin and lungs. Eventually, Gill-Man is taken back to shore, where he still longs for the sea in wistful shots gazing to the distance, before losing his temper and attacking the people on land.<\/p>\n This third film seems to be blunter than the first two: the scientists are the real villains in this, and Jeff Morton plays the megalomaniacal Barton with a steely coldness. The movie manages to evoke a few frights, but it\u2019s the sadness that will stay you, with the creature becoming a shadow of his former self as the plot develops.<\/p>\n It\u2019s well directed too, with the scene of the Gill-Man catching fire a standout, and that\u2019s without touching on the superb score, courtesy of the legendary Henry Mancini, which really floats with the more poignant moments.<\/p>\n The Creature Walks Among<\/strong><\/em> us isn\u2019t the most exciting edition of the franchise: it\u2019s fairly predictable in the end and at times, it seems like the movie\u2019s only delaying the cataclysmic finale by stretching out the action.<\/p>\n It is, however, a fascinating way to end the trilogy, and it stands as its own movie without the two. It\u2019s a great insight into the monstrousness of mankind more than anything, and an entertaining watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The third and final Creature film gets its DVD re-release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":78349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2617,8],"tags":[4624],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Creature-Walks-Among-Us.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}