Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

The fad for 3-D film would last for only two years, 1952 – 1954, and helped sell House of Wax and Creature from the Black Lagoon.

These films include Creature from the Black Lagoon, Bend of the River, Untamed Frontier, The Golden Horde, Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, Man Made Monster, While the City Sleeps and The Monster That Challenged the World.

Many geologists and fossil collectors from Europe and America visited Anning at Lyme, including the geologist George William Featherstonhaugh, who called Anning a " very clever funny Creature.

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In April 2008, Aardman launched the Aardman YouTube channel, which is a YouTube Partner channel featuring the entire Creature Comforts TV series, the Morph series, Cracking Contraptions and clips from the Wallace and Gromit films.

During this period, the fish-man monster Gill-man was developed in the film series Creature from the Black Lagoon.

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On a TV special in the early 1950s, the two did a sketch where they interacted with the latest original Universal Studios monster being promoted at the time, the Creature from the Black Lagoon ( 1954 ).

Creature from the Black Lagoon was filmed and originally released in 3-D requiring polarized 3-D glasses, and subsequently reissued in the 1970s in the inferior anaglyph format ( this version was released on home video by MCA Videocassette, Inc. in 1980 ).

Dr. Thompson and Dr. Maia both die grisly deaths, whereas in the movie they survive ; Maia is eaten by the monster, and Thompson is impaled on a long tree branch flung at him by the creature like a spear ( in an apparent nod to a deleted scene from Revenge of the Creature wherein the Gill-man killed a guard in this fashion ).

Even earlier, in The Seven Year Itch, the film is referenced when Tom Ewell and Marilyn Monroe come out of a theatre showing Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Creature from the Black Lagoon was later made into a pinball game, designed by John Trudeau ( AKA " Dr.

Creature from the Black Lagoon ", and then requires the player to chase after the monster just like in the film.

The Marvel Comics character Triton of the Inhumans is a green water breathing character resembling the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

In The Nightmare Before Christmas, there is a character in Halloween Town who is clearly meant to be a version of the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 a band from North Carolina who were fronted by now Murderdolls lead singer and solo artist Wednesday 13 also did a song about the creature naming it Creature From The Black Lagoon.

Dave Edmunds also did a song called " Creature from the Black Lagoon ".

The half-man half-fish character known as The Missing link ( often referred to as ' Link ') in the movie Aliens vs. Monsters is an homage to the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

With the financial success of The Mummy remake in May 1999, development of the Creature from the Black Lagoon remake was revived.

Once he finishes filming that, he will begin filming Creature from the Black Lagoon in Manaus, Brazil and on the Amazon River in Peru.

In March of 2012, Universal announced that a reboot is in production, and will simply be referred to as The Black Lagoon rather than The Creature from the Black Lagoon, in order to distinguish the two versions.

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She introduced the future director, the middle of three children, to the world of cinema by leaving him at a local cinema to watch matinee double features such as Attack of the Crab Monsters and Creature From the Black Lagoon while she ran errands.

The creature decides to make his own cereal called " Creature with the Black Macaroons " because macaroon sounds like lagoon ; however, the cereal wasn't successful and when all the cereals were dumped into his lagoon, he says " I should've gone with legumes ", as legume also sounds like lagoon.

Trinidadian calypso singer Lord Melody released a song called " Creature From The Black Lagoon " in 1957.

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Many of his stories have been re-released in posthumous volumes ( Best of Beaumont ( Bantam, 1982 ) and The Howling Man ( Tom Doherty, 1992 )), and a set of previously unpublished tales, A Touch of the Creature ( Subterranean Press, 1999 ), is now available.

It is considered a classic of the 1950s, and generated two sequels, Revenge of the Creature and The Creature Walks Among Us.

He is best known for Playing The Gill-man in Creature from the Black Lagoon, Revenge of the Creature and The Creature Walks Among Us in the underwater scenes while other actors portrayed the creature on land.

In 1646, Sir Thomas Browne wondered why the natives of North America had taken rattlesnakes with them, but not horses: " How America abounded with Beasts of prey and noxious Animals, yet contained not in that necessary Creature, a Horse, is very strange ".

* Baby Tree Creature ( performed by Karen Prell )-The Baby Tree Creature is a type of Gorg bird that is seen in " Wembley's Egg ".

* Papa Tree Creature ( performed by Steve Whitmire )-The Papa Tree Creature is a kind of Gorg bird.

George Martin's AIR recording studios, in converted church premises in Lyndhurst Road, is a current example, as Jim Henson's Creature Shop was, before it relocated to California.

The garden exhibits art items such as Fallen Giant, Sea Creature, and Kneeling Woman, and the house is home to the private collections of Miller-Penrose, their own work and some of their favourite pieces of art.

Significant film appearances include The Snow Creature ( 1954 ), Half Human ( 1955 ), The Abominable Snowman ( 1957 ), Yeti-il gigante del 20. secolo ( 1977 ), Snowbeast ( 1977 ), Monsters, Inc. ( 2001 ), and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor ( 2008 ), Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon, ( 2008 ) Yetiko Khojima ( Yeti ; in search of Yeti, 2010 ).

He moved into movies in 1954, playing the underwater role of the Gill-man in Creature from the Black Lagoon ( while Ben Chapman played the monster on land ), a feat he repeated in two sequels.

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When writing the storyline, Burton and Thompson were influenced by Universal Horror films, such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), Frankenstein ( 1931 ), Creature from the Black Lagoon ( 1954 ), as well as King Kong ( 1933 ) and various fairy tales.

Since the first Quatermass serial, the pair had collaborated on the literary adaptations Wuthering Heights ( 1953 ) and Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1954 ), and on Kneale's abominable snowman play The Creature ( 1955 ).

Richard Denning ( March 27, 1914 – October 11, 1998 ), was an American actor who starred in such movies as Creature from the Black Lagoon ( 1954 ) and An Affair to Remember ( 1957 ), and on radio with Lucille Ball as her husband George Cooper in My Favorite Husband ( 1948 – 1951 ), the forerunner of television's I Love Lucy, for which Denning was replaced by Ball's real-life husband, Desi Arnaz.

The park's facilities were very popular with tourists and also used for numerous movies, including Creature from the Black Lagoon ( 1954 ) and Revenge of the Creature ( 1955 ).

He also played the doctor who treats Kevin McCarthy's character in the 1956 classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and in the original 1954 Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Bud led Universal's makeup department for twenty-three years, specializing in rubber prosthetics and body suits such as the one used in Creature from the Black Lagoon ( 1954 ).

He appeared in a number of horror and science fiction films, including three 3-D films: The Maze ( 1953 ) and the classics It Came from Outer Space ( 1953 ) with Barbara Rush, Creature from the Black Lagoon ( 1954 ) with Julia Adams, and The Magnetic Monster.

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By the mid-1940s and throughout the 1950s, Moreno appeared in a number of well received roles, most notably, his 1954 role in the classic horror film Creature from the Black Lagoon and his 1955 role as Emilio Figueroa in film director John Ford's influential western epic The Searchers opposite John Wayne and Natalie Wood.

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