Universal Pictures is in early talks with Carl Erik Rinsch to direct “Creature From the Black Lagoon,” a remake of the 1954 U pic about an undersea creature that terrorizes a scientific ...

By Milton Luban On Feb. 24, 1954, Universal’s 79-minute monster thriller Creature From the Black Lagoon opened at the Vogue and Ritz theaters in Los Angeles. The Hollywood Reporter’s review ...

A few weeks later, the young man received a fateful phone call. As Browning reveals on the DVD documentary Back to the Black Lagoon, Jack Arnold said, “We like the way you swam. How would you ...

The Creature from the Black Lagoon has reemerged from the deep, deep waters of history. The terrifying movie monster could both swim (in his lagoon) and walk on land. He had long claws ...

He helped bring “Flipper” to the movies and TV but was best known for his plunge in a monster suit in “Creature From the Black Lagoon.” By Neil Genzlinger Ricou Browning, who played the ...

But he remained best known for “Creature From the Black Lagoon,” which was scorned by critics initially but entered the monster-movie canon alongside Universal movies about Dracula ...