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Friday 19 April 2019

Swamp Thing (1982)

Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau) gets helicoptered into a swamp to meet with a research team whose secretive studies involving animal and plant life take a turn for the worst. Naturally, Alice ends up in the middle of it all. Although, mostly that amounts to her running around while the anguished Swamp Thing in a veiny green rubber onesie hollers and throws guys around.
It's a cheap and cheesy 80s B-Movie with campy moments, but good fun if you're in the correct frame of mind. There are a few memorable scenes in which the creature elevates itself with some brief but eloquent sensitivity; more of those would've made it a better film overall.
NOTE: the US version is shorter than the International Cut. It's by only a few minutes, but fans of Adrienne will probably want to see the longer one.

3 natural ways out of 5

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