One of the horror flicks we remember seeing on T.V. when we were young is The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). Probably unfamiliar today to most people under forty, it's considered to be something of a classic, but if so, it's a classic only by Hollywood's debased standards. Hollywood reduced science fiction, by then a respected literary genre, to silly plots about such important matters as giant grasshoppers, giant spiders, giant women (one deadly menace after another), or as here, an unknown creature from the Amazon jungle. It is notable for being one of the very first films shot in 3-D, and we remember a special showing on Chicago television during the 80's where it was actually broadcast in the original 3-D, which required the viewer to use polarized 3-D glasses (available free at local 7-11 stores).
The Creature menaces bathing beauty Kay (Julie Adams).
