The creature of the black lagoon was characterized as the epitome of terror. This film gave life to a magnificent monster. Many of his physical features are meant to intimidate and pester people. Even the movie ads portray a monster that looks dangerous and repulsive. This monster originates from the amazons and is a combination of human and fish. His extremities are covered by scales, and he is able to agilely swim and walk. The success of this monster was mostly because many of the 50’s Sci-Fi films began to make use of various side effects.

What is particularly surprising is that aside from the fact the monster displays a physically dangerous appearance all of the movies present a creature that is mellow. It is somewhat ironic to see the monster in the ads as a scary monster, yet the first movie is about a creature that falls in love with a member of the explorer team. The second movie, The Revenge of the Creature (1955) exhibits him as a powerless being that is mistreated while in captivity. Lastly the movie entitled, The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) makes of this monster a fragile creature that is old and hurt, desperate to be sent back to its natural habitat. All of these movies, instead of making the creature of the Black Lagoon appear as the monster, they make humans appear as the real heartless individuals who show no remorse in mistreating and vilely exhibiting a poor creature as if he were the worst creation in the world.  Nevertheless, the “scaring” effect this monster produced resulted in innumerable copies and remakes of this character. In my point of view this creature is anything but a monster; he clearly exhibits very human-like qualities such as vulnerability, compassion, love and fear. Yet, during the time period the movie was aired the monster was detested and scary. This drives me to think whether movie industries attempt to display the image of a typical monster only by means of disturbing physical characteristics, after all that was the only thing scary of this monster.