Golden Oldie: Creature from the Black Lagoon

In my blogs i feel there are must see films from the past, now they can be films a year or so, old or classics from back in the day. (yes many of these will be films that are older than me, so not back in my day, so there is no need to point that out) but anyway the first film chosen will be Creature from the Black Lagoon made in 1954 directed by Jack Arnold. This film i have seen just recently and i fell in love with it, the synopsis for this film is:

A scientist discovers the hand of a ancient creature that could hold the key of evolution for a creature to live on both land and in water. He takes this back to several of his colleagues and they all agree and expedition is in hand to find the rest of the body. When they arrive already there has been attacks and this leads them to the black lagoon in the amazon river where the creature lives.

This film was amazingly shot especially thinking about the time this was made with shots of the creature and the lead actress (who the creature falls for) swimming together and shots of the creature where they refrained from showing his features at the beginning and the look of it in black and white makes it beautifully done though the location played a big part of the look of this film. The acting was well acted but the biggest complement must go to the designers of the creature costume because it was amazing in that era and yes saying it was amazing back then is probably ordinary if that of today but it all must be taken into account, though this costume would even be brilliant for todays films though they would probably only use CGI nowadays.

So following on from that i have learned reportedly from IMDB that there is a remake of this classic, epic film and the director rumoured is Breck Eisner who has directed films like Sahara in 2006 and Thought-crimes in 2003 so i am actually scared of what my happen to the remake of this film, because i don't like either of these films and he hasn't really done any others. Will it destroy/ruin the classic film of Creature from the Black Lagoon? who knows but me personally remakes hardly ever beat the original and it can ruin them for me so it may be a film i will avoid because i love this film to much.

A rating for this film that is over fifty years old i will give a 10/10 i need no reason for this because it was a beautifully shot film, a must watch especially for film-makers in my opinion.