Product Description

Deep in Florida's darkest everglades, a brilliant scientist, Dr. Alec Holland (Ray Wise), and a sexy government agent, Alice Cable (Adrienne Barneau), have developed a secret formula that could end world hunger and change civilisation forever. Little do they know, however, that their arch nemesis, Arcane (Louis Jourdan), is plotting to steal the serum for his own selfish schemes. Looting the lab and kidnaping Cable, Arcane douses Holland with the chemicals and leaves him for dead in the swamp. Mutated by his own formula, Holland becomes "Swamp Thing"-a half plant superhero who will stop at nothing to rescue the beautiful Cable and defeat the evil Arcane...even if it costs him his life!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17480 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-08-23
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 91 minutes

Amazon.com
Horror vet Wes Craven wrote and directed this campy swamp romp adapted from the DC Comic of the same name. Adrienne Barbeau stars as cleavangelically blessed government agent Alice Cable, sent to the bayou to guard the brilliant Dr. Alec Holland. Holland is using recombinant DNA to create "a plant with an animal's aggressive power for survival." Let's hope none of that volatile secret formula gets spilled! Swamp Thing is an unusual mix of monster movie and superhero flick, but definitely an enjoyable ride. Craven deliberately uses comic-book-style wipes and transitions to keep us from taking anything too seriously, and Louis Jourdan keeps up the tone with his camp performance as the evil Arcane. Also keep an eye out for young Reggie Batts in a terrific deadpan performance as Jude, the helpful gas station attendant. --Ali Davis

Customer Reviews

Save your childhood memories and DONT watch this DVD
The Swamp Thing - DVD

I know that this film is a cult classic, so I will tread carefully in this review. When you were young, and you watched this movie, you saw a green monster who was tough, explosions, people being thrown headfirst into the swamp, and Adrienne Barbeau's boobies bouncing about. If that is your recollection of this film, then please save your childhood memories and do NOT go back and watch this film again.

If you are an adult and you have not seen this film, or if you want to destroy your childhood memories of this movie... this is what you will see:

1) First there are not any special features on the DVD, except for the trailer which is a cheesefest of epic proportions.

2) Adrienne Barbeau's boobies do have 85% of the movie as the main focus... they bounce in all sort of directions under various conditions and have more costume changes than any other character in the film.

3) The Swamp thing is a man in a rubber suit that does not bend quite properly.

4) If you look carefully you can see netting and other things in the background used to increase the "Swampy" feel

5) The voices don't go to their mouths... infact often there are voices for characters who never open their mouths through the entire scene.

6) The things that blow up... aren't things that should probably have blown up under those circumstances.

7) The pig costume is TERRIBLE

8) Apparently a Doctor and A Government Agent can fall in love in under 12 hours... and it will be a lasting love that will be strong enough for them to be willing to sacrifice it all for their lover, whom they have only ever kissed and an awkwardly dispassionate way.

9) Bad guys always drink the potions...

10) 13 year old African American children run/own stores out in the middle of the swamp.

Basically this movie has about 20 minutes of plot, and it's not very good plot either. To fill up the rest of the time you have Cable (Adrienne Barbeau's Character) running about the swamp with her boobies bouncing, to be saved by the swamp thing who will then leave the scene with a reused shot resembling the "Big Foot" footage. This repeats about 8 times before she is captured and placed in an evening gown so her now tired boobies can breath. The bad guy chugs the potion and turns into a badly made monster who runs out into the swamp with a sword for an epic wrestling match with the Swamp Thing. The movie is funny, and bad, and cheesy and probably okay to let the kids watch if it wasn't for a few minor "s" words. But I would NEVER call this a 5 star film. Entertaining in that cheesy early 80's film way... but no great feat of cinematic genius.

Cheese
I bought this movie for a friend who is into cheesey eighties movies and he loved it. The crazy creatures in this movie are hokey enough to laugh at but at the same time believable enough to not totally nullify the action. If you like cultish movies from the eighties you can't go wrong with this classic.

*3.99 Stars * A 80s, B movie, comic book version of a cross between the original King Kong and Frankenstein.
Wes craven has made terrifying and disturbing movies prior to this with The last house on the left and The Hills have eyes. I think he was doing a throw back to old school monster movies or horror comics as scenes flow like pages of a comic.
The movie is fun. It has some cheesy lines and more catch phrases than i've ever heard in one movie and some things don't add up. You could be there watching with friends like, "grenades don't effect him but a machete is gonna do him in, how many times is she going to fall down, I bet when Adrienne Barbeau saw the sun make his arm grow back she was hoping it would shine somewhere else cause once you've had tree you never go bark. Reggie Batts who plays Jude is hilarious he's about 13 and apparantly owns his own gas station, a boat (with a black doll tied to the front for whatever reason), and delivers slow funny lines from behind his huge glasses.
The movie has a creative and original idea, a serum or a potion that enhances what you are on the inside (this could be alcohol for some) as Dr. Anton Arcane finds out he is not a genius but a monster. Wes Craven will show his creativity a few years later with another modern movie monster i think you might have heard of him Freddy Krueger. I think swamp thing was him (craven) paying homage to a different time in horror the classic monster movie, maybe the kind that he grew up watching and was perhaps inspired by Then in a Nightmare on Elm st he does his version of a modern monster which will turn into an icon.
Swamp thing is also in the 101 best horror movies you've never seen book by Fangoria.