What makes it different from others?

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

not as good as all the hype

Am I Missing Something?

Jack Arnold, the director of the two previous films, graduated to Universal's A-list and John Sherwood, a long-time assistant director, took over. It's the only film of the three not to be shot in 3-D.Despite how we saw the Gill-man get shot to death, he somehow survived and is somewhere in the Everglades. Dr. William Barton (Jeff Morrow, This Island Earth, Octaman) is pretty much insane, a man driven to capture the merman and abuse his wife Marcia (Leigh Snowden, who was in the same Universal acting classes as Clint Eastwood, James Garner and John Saxon). The dude loses his mind any time she is near their guide, Jed Grant (Gregg Palmer, who appeared in many of John Wayne's films).For some reason, Marcia joins Jed and Dr. Tom Morgan (Rex Reason, who has a name like a pro wrestler or a Stan Lee character, but he was an actor who appeared in films like This Island Earth and TV's The Roaring 20's) on a dive, but she somehow goes crazy and overcome with the "raptures of the deep." Also known as nitrogen narcosis, this creates a mental state similar to doing nitrous oxide. It causes Marcia to take off all her scuba gear and the guys have to rescue her.Of course, the Gill-man follows her and he gets shot with a spear gun, to which he looks right at the crew and seems to want to say, "Come on, dude." Then, they set him on fire!This all leads to our underwater pal being in need of surgery from Dr. Borg and Dr. Johnson. And why do they do all this? They want to see if the Creature can help people survive in space! Well, all their work costs the monster his gills and now, he has lungs that can breathe our air. He also has more human skin, so he has to wear clothes.The doctors try and get the Gill-Man to live among humans, but he gradually becomes depressed, staring at the ocean. He even tries to dive into it and swim back home, but he can no longer breathe as he once did. It's horrible. Seriously, this movie makes me so upset, as they take everything from him and he gets nothing back in return. Even when he saves some animals from a lion or tries to attack Barton when he kills Jed in a jealous rage, everyone thinks the worst of our undersea friend.At the end, he finally makes it back to the beach and just stares at the water, unsure what world he finally belongs in. It's the most unsettling and upsetting of endings, on par with Son of Kong. There are no easy answers - man has put the Creature in this place and nothing can return him back to the home he misses so much.

"The Creature Walks Among Us" is the second sequel to the famous "Creature From the Black Lagoon". I have not seen the first sequel, "Revenge of the Creature", but I am told it also features a love triangle made of human characters and a poor gill-man (or titular "creature") on the outside of it.You probably know what to expect from this third and final installment in the "men with gills can't get girls" series of movies. If not, it's basically like this: guys capture the gill-man, keep him for a while, but the gill-man escapes. As has been noted above, the movie attempts a love triangle but doesn't really succeed at it. Wikipedia says that the characters are a crazed and paranoid doctor who is suspicious of the attention the studly guide is paying to his beautiful wife. I got that there was some sexual paranoia going on, but the bit about the doctor being crazy totally went over my head. Unfortunately none of the characters really register; I didn't get the slightest hint of a personality from any of them.Anyway, "The Creature Walks Among Us" lives up to its name with shots of the creature actually walking around, for some reason clothed in linen like a Roman emperor. These bits are amusing to look at, at least. There is also some nonsense about the creature learning to breathe air. They should have made another sequel in which they teach him to tap dance and quote Shakespeare. It could have been like an aquatic "Enigma of Kaspar Hauser".Why do they clothe the creature? He/she/it apparently has no sex organs; at least none that are visible. It seems like a cruel joke at the creature's expense. Understandable, then, that it inevitably goes on a rampage. I find it harder to swallow, however, that this is triggered by it realising it is being falsely blamed for human crime.

(Flash Review)Once again the creature is captured by a scientist with intentions of trying some groundbreaking experiments on it. Part of the plot addresses the morality of doing genetic experiments on creatures and animals. During the capture, the creature gets 3rd degree burns in a spectacular scene even though the question remains as to why the creature dumps gasoline on itself but who cares; funny! While trying to save its life from the burns, it gills fall off and it is now able to breath air and begins to mutate. One can only imagine where the story goes from there but it remains 50's monster movie funny in a good way. One of the most amusing parts was how they introduce the female lead by cutting to her wildly shooting a shot gun off a boat in preparation to capturing the creature. Odd and bold for the 50's and better than most of today's sequel attempts.

This is the third & final rendering of the tale of the Gill Man. Seems a group of scientists head to the Florida Everglades to locate, capture and study the creature. He is captured and nearly killed when he catches on fire. He is left without gills but has lungs (who knew) and he is transported to San Francisco why there? Then he is penned up with animals and dressed in human clothing????? All the while the scientist played by Jeff Morrow, is losing his grip on reality due to jealousy over his young, sexy but faithful wife whom all the other male scientists are interested in. A murder occurs, sending the creature into a murderous rampage.This is a different theme than the previous two outings, but the acting is good and the plot kept my attention.