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the real reason i know hfth is criminally underrated is because there are two characters based off of the invisible man and the shape of water guy except they're nice and they are dating and they get no attention
look at their wiki pages
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Part 3 out of 3
Part 1 and part 2
Lyrics from The Machine (Intro) by Jukebox the Ghost
#hello from the hallowoods#hfth#hfth spoilers#hfth season 3#Jackie and Heidi Mendoza#hector mendoza#the count#Ray Marley#Ricou Chapman#Nolan Thair#hfth creep#olivier song#danielle o'hara#moth scarberry#nikignik#hfth marolmar#diggory graves#too many people#finally done with this#gonna make a long post soon
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inspired by this post. genders are from the hello from the hallowoods wiki.
#hello from the hallowoods#hfth#ricou chapman#nolan thair#friday rescher#danielle o'hara#brooklyn williams#mx. morrell#atticus raven#percy reed#nikignik#marolmar#ray marley#clara martin
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Love how these guys are jus havin a lovely time gettin drinks and fixin up an old house while the rest of the Hallowoods (and all the people in it) are like, on fire.
#hfth#hello from the hallowoods#nolan thair#ricou chapman#alice#i don't know if she has a last name ovo''#hfth spoilers#hfth 123#evolutions#freaking out over everything in this podcast but glad to know these guys are doin just fine#for now#hope you enjoyed#ye!
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Hallowoods Favourite Character shown down: Round Three
#hello from the hallowoods#hello from the hallowoods polls#hfth#hfth polls#ricou chapman#hector mendoza
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For a merman, he takes a fine picture.
RICOU BROWNING and BEN CHAPMAN as THE GILL MAN in CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954) dir. Jack Arnold
#filmedit#oldhollywoodedit#horroredit#Creature From the Black Lagoon#old hollywood#universal monsters#Ricou Browning#Ben Chapman#junkfooddaily#horrorfilmgifs#classicfilmsource#classicfilmblr#filmgifs#dailyflicks#fyeahmovies#moviegifs#*
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Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) - Spanish poster
#creature from the black lagoon#julie adams#richard carlson#richard denning#ricou browning#ben chapman#1950s horror#1950s movies#1954#jack arnold#universal monsters#gill man#universal horror#classic horror#horror movie poster
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Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954)
#Horror#Filmedit#Horroredit#Creature from the Black Lagoon#Jack Arnold#Ricou Browning#Ben Chapman#Julie Adams#Richard Carlson#Universal Monsters#CHB#1954#50s
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Trick or Treat Studios has released Frankenstein and Creature from the Black Lagoon candy pails. Priced at $20, the 9" blow mold plastic buckets are expected to ship in early October.
#frankenstein#creature from the black lagoon#universal monsters#horror#classic horror#boris karloff#ben chapman#ricou browning#trick or treat studios#toy#gift#halloween#mary shelley#james whale#gill man
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The Creature from the Black Lagoon!
Watercolor, 9 x 12 inches JoJo Seames, 2024
#creature from the black lagoon#the creature from the black lagoon#universal monsters#universal horror#gill-man#gill man#ricou browning#ben chapman#art#illustration#watercolor#painting#jojo seames
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Horror Movie of the day: Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Near the Amazon river, geologist Carl Maia(Antonio Moreno) finds a strange fossil from the Devonian period. It has webbed fingers, but a bone structure closer to a hominid, proving the connection between water and land animals. While he was reuniting with Ictiologist David Reed(Richard Carlson) to ask for his help in this expedition, two of his expedition collaborators are killed by what he suspects was a jaguar. But others aren't so sure about that. Indeed, there's a living fossil following them, in silence, watching from the waters of what the captain of the ship calls "The Black Lagoon".
Directed by Jack Arnold, this is one of the cornerstones of aquatic monsters in film. Inspired by both the producers hearing about local legends from the Amazon rainforest about aquatic monsters in the river and the discovery of the coelacanth not being extinct as an animal group, the movie has a little more to say about human's relationship with nature than its fame would lead you to believe. It's remembered as that one monster film where an underwater creature kidnaps a woman... but that's surprisingly not remotely close to the core of the conflict, as the so called Gillman is in fact given quite a lot of sympathy, being presented as a wild animal protecting his territory from invaders, even if he does indeed try to capture David's girlfriend Kay(Julia Adams) to keep her as a mate.
Speaking of which, the Gillman is easily the most copied monster in the Universal roster for a reason; being played by olympic swimmer Ricou Browning for underwater scenes really helped sell how DEADLY this creature is once you submerge, regardless of how beautifully those sequences under the river were shot. Yep, for those with thalassophobia, the movie is not for you.
Even if clearly of a lower prestige, it benefits from more than two decades of advancements in cinematography to deliver a simple but engaging, suspenseful ride.
The Gillman in general is quite the achievement, to be honest. Not the most convincing costume for modern standards but it does sell the coencept of the aquatic monster quite well while also being quite mobile, allowing for fairly seamless swimming sequences. Two versions of the costume were required as well: for underwater sequences the costume was brighter so it would be captured by the camera in conditions with less light, while it was darker for scenes where the creature was on land.
Sadly, Milicent Patrick, the unsung hero behind this marvel of a design wasn't properly credited during her lifetime, which is an absolute disgrace on Hollywood and Universal Studios. A creature movie lives or dies by the way the monster looks, so to deny the achievements of this woman is just infuriating.
But of couse, with The Shape of Water (which Guillermo del Toro shamelessly admits is partly his fanfic where Kay and the Gilman end up together... thankfully without kidnappings) and the general CURSE on any project related to this particular creature(as multiple attempted reboots have been attempted but never seen the light of day, the most recent being in talks by James Wan of Saw and The Conjuring fame), who knows what's in store for this underwater menace.
Pictured below, The Shape of Water(2017) and designs for Gillman made by Rick Baker for a cancelled reboot by John Carpenter in 1992
#horror movies#halloween movie#universal monsters#milicent patrick#jack arnold#richard carlson#julia adams#richard denning#antonio moreno#nestor paiva#whitt bissel#ben chapman#ricou browning#creature from the black lagoon#roskirambles
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spooky tuesday is a (now not so new!) podcast where we’re breaking down all of our favorite slashers, thrillers, monster movies and black comedies on the new scariest day of the week.
it's a b-cember to remember here at spooky tuesday! to finish the year in festive fashion, we decided to do one last lil theme month and dedicate december to b horror movies, so of course we had to start with a classic. creature from the black lagoon (1954) may have marked the end of the monster movie era, but it laid the ground work for a whole bunch of famous scary movies that followed. guillermo del toro's the shape of water is an obvious one — but steven spielberg was taking notes for jaws, too. on our latest episode, we're talking film history, four foot dicks, and lighting things on fire.
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#creature from the black lagoon#universal monsters#universal horror#classic horror#b horror#julia adams#julie adams#richard carlson#richard denning#antonio moreno#nestor paiva#ben chapman#ricou browning#bernie gozier#50s horror#horror podcast#horror movies#horror#horror movie podcast#horror movie review#movie review#movie review podcast#gay horror podcast#spooky tuesday#new spooky tuesday episode
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#Creature from the Black Lagoon#Richard Carlson#Julie Adams#Richard Denning#Antonio Moreno#Nestor Paiva#Whit Bissell#Ben Chapman#Ricou Browning#Jack Arnold#1954
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I love Nolan and Ricou so much 😭❤️
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Clothes (I think) Nolan would wear.
#hfth#hello from the hallowoods#nolan thair#ricou chapman#i like drawin nolan#guys got a good look to em :D#anyway#hope you enjoyed#ye!#these ideas hit me like a truck
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Hallowoods Favourite Character shown down: Round Two
#hello from the hallowoods#hello from the hallowoods polls#hfth#hfth polls#Ricou Chapman#Gale Scarberry
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