Creature From the Black Lagoon: Complete Legacy Collection [DVD]

I love this film. Old timey horror flick with goopy monsters, screaming & screechings. I saw it @ a triple feature ! The Drive -in. My friends & I ordered pizzas, (Drive ins offered food & soda: CONCESSIONS: they called it!!) and we settled in for a triple film night of (1950's) Sci-fi horror films!!!. Great fun! This food was far & away much, much better than fast foods of 2025! Cheaper too! Way cheaper! The Creature from...was scary in his own right! Untamed, wild & pointy- screaming thing that he was! Big lizardy paws, long (unpainted nor polished) nails, & shreiking all the time. He is not ugly, just misunderstood. Perhaps some time @ the Drive- ins Concession stand would have done him some good? He certainly could have filled his tummy up there instead of eating frogs & such swamp nonsense. Highly recommended. Fine, family fun!

Phew! 5 stars bc I got what I wanted. Took a “risk” and ordered Creature From the Black Lagoon: Complete Legacy Collection [Blu-ray], which in a total of 2 discs, has 3 movies in 2D and 2 movies in 3D. I’ll leave out the 2D issue others have stated and focus on the 3D for “Revenge of.” It’s normal 3D you’d expect to run on your 3D TV w 3D glasses and 3D player. It’s NOT side by side 3D as originally released which was problematic and spurred a disc replacement program. I say “risk” bc of this had that version I don’t know if the studio would have any replacement discs left. I only checked this disc by watching for 10 mins. Have to dig in menu to find 3D version. It’s not 5 star quality, more like 2 star, but I knew that and am just ecstatic to have this in my collection. 3D artifacts I see is ghosting of an image. So where there’s an oar while they’re looking for the Creature, there’s a second faint oar near it. Seems most noticeable w bright objects in scene. Tried these things to mitigate: lower brightness of glasses, lowered contrast of TV, adjusted depth of glasses. All settings in TV. Sony 65” Z9D 4K 3D TV, Sony X700 region free 4K 3D player, Sony glasses that came w TV. Haven’t tried this movie w Panasonic UB820 or UB9000. The 9000 is paired w a 75” version of TV above and I’m looking forward to snuggling up to watch both in 3D. The third movie is 2D only. Thank you to all who helped piece this together for me. Hope this helps.

December 6 2018 UPDATE: I received my replacement from Universal as of today. According to the padded envelope it was mailed out on the 30th of November. I haven't had a chance to watch all of it but I did scan it and compared it with the previous disc and I concur with the previous pot posted on the Home Theater Forum that the 2D version of Creature Walks among us is not the same as the previous. Yes it is still a very soft picture and does look more like DVD quality but from what I have read from the company that did the restoration on Creature Walks Among Us is that Revenge of the Creature had lots and lots of dupes utilized in its creation and that there is not as much original negative available as there was for Creature Walks Among Us. I assume that this is the best possible source that they had to use and this is as good as it is gonna get. I am not disappointed with it. Wish it could look as good as the other two but if this is all they had to work with I am just glad to have it finally in hi def now. Given that information I am going to move my rating to 5 stars. September 4 2018 UPDSTE: I tried to email Universal via their web site but every time I hit send I would get an error page. So, I sent them a message through Facebook asking if they were looking into the issue and asked if there would be a replacement program. As soon as I hear back from them, if I hear back from them, I will post what I find out. I encourage every one here to do the same. If you do send them a message be sure to be polite :). If you are expecting a high def copy of Revenge of the Creature in 2D, it isn't in this set and that is for sure. I won't elaborate on the 3D version because I do not have a 3D player or a 3D TV. The 3D is useless for me . BUT I am highly disappointed in the 2D version. As has been previously stated the picture is soft. Defiantly not Blu Ray presentation. I would compare it to a high grade SD version, but not a HD Blu Ray version. In my opinion my standard DVD has just as good of a copy as the "Blu Ray". I work very hard for my money and when I buy a Blu Ray I expect HD. The Creature Walks Among Us looks amazing. Universal really does need to go back and reissue this Blu Ray with a HD copy of Revenge of the Creature in 2D. When/if they do, I will re-buy the set. But if all I am going to get is a SD version, I will just keep my DVD copy.

Update: Universal did the right thing and issued replacement copies of the 2nd disc, which now include a proper MVC 3D encode of Revenge of the Creature. Maybe the SBS encode on the previous version was an honest mistake. Who knows? The movie does look a bit soft in some places, but apparently that's due to the original film, and not a result of disc authoring/compression. I can definitely recommend this set now that it contains the corrected disc and I hope that Universal will continue to release more 3D Blu-rays (both new and from their back catalog) in the future. Original Review: I don't think I've ever been so disappointed with a movie set before or so disgusted with the publisher. I'm going to have to think twice before I pre-order anything from Universal again. Many people, like myself, already own the standalone release of Creature from the Black Lagoon on Blu-Ray, with a proper MVC encoded 3D version of the movie. The Legacy Collection contains a re-issue of that same disc along with a second disc that was touted as containing Revenge of the Creature + a 3D version of that film, and the third and final the Creature Walks Among Us film. If that seems like a lot of movie for one disc to you, you're not wrong. So much in fact that Universal couldn't fit a proper 3D version of Revenge of the Creature on it. Instead they put some low resolution split-screen garbage on the disc in lieu of a proper MVC 3D encode. If you're lucky then maybe your TV or Blu-Ray player can convert it into some blurry low-fi version of an actual 3D Blu-Ray movie. Worse still, it seems they used over-aggressive compression on the 2D version of Revenge of the Creature, in order make it fit, so neither version of the film is of acceptable quality. I might expect this sort of thing if I had ordered a movie set from Sri Lanka, but certainly not in a US release from Universal. The 3D Film Archive (the best in the business) did a 4K 3D restoration of this movie for Universal. Many of us have been awaiting a proper 3D release of Revenge of the Creature for years, and were super excited for this release after finding out they had done the restoration. Sadly, this release is so botched it hasn't given us any chance to see the fruits of their labor. We still don't have a proper 3D release of release of Revenge of the Creature, and the only adequate disc in this collection is the one I already owned. What a disappointment! Would it have killed Universal to make this a proper 3 disc collection in order to do it right instead of cutting so many corners? Actually, there are move collections with 3 times as many Blu-Ray discs for less than half of what I paid to pre-order this thing, so no, it wouldn't have. It's sad to see Universal give such poor treatment to a "Legacy Collection" and sadder still to see such a breach of trust with customers and fans who already owned the first disc in the collection and were expecting something at least on par with that release for the other movies. I'll gladly revise this review if Universal decide to do the right thing and give a proper MVC 3D encoded Blu-ray to people who purchased this, but I'm guessing this was not a mistake, just an ill-conceived cost-cutting measure. The ball is in their court now. We'll see what they do.

[The Creature from the Black Lagoon] Love that musical cue as the Creature advances on unsuspecting victims! Great 50s horror film has a crew searching for an elusive man fish ancestor who takes a liking to a comely female lab assistant. Great musical theme and underwater photography. BD picture quality is great, this was the last of individually released Monster Legacy collections, was out for a while with the Invisible Man then disappeared, and is now available again with a new batch. Grab it! (j4) [Revenge of the Creature] The Gill-man gets roped and transported to a SeaWorld-esqe facility for study and ogling by the public before having enough and deciding to depart with tasty ichthyologist. Loses the mystery of the lagoon locale, but still a fun ride. For whatever reason I hadn't seen this one or the Creature Walks Among Us so I'm glad to have these from a completest POV. Picture quality is a bit softer than the original Creature but of course much better than the DVD offerings. (j4) [The Creature Walks Among Us] The end of the Creature as he transforms into Frankenstein's Monster. Welp, looks like our Gill-Man has gotten captured again, this time he's burned and the scientists decide to peel away his top layer to reveal lungs and human eyes and other secondary mutations including bulking him up. Evoking a lot of pathos, he lumbers around his San Francisco ranch prison mooning at an abused wife until he decides to return home. Picture quality was passable on the BD. Good for completests. (j4.)

Hadn't seen these movies since I was quite young (and now I'm quite old). These were a staple on Saturday afternoon TV programming back then. Watching the Creature was like a blast from the past. I smiled all through playing these B-movie classics. I might look for more gems from this time and genre now...

I was just a small fry when my pop took us to the show and saw this movie when it came out in the mid-1950's. I was awe-struck when I saw it as a child, and still am, just in a different way. IMO, these CGI science fiction/horror movies out today take a back seat to true classics like Creature From The Black Lagoon. I'm glad that they filmed it in black and white. The scenery is so primitive looking and pristine, that when I first saw it, I believed that it WAS filmed in the Amazon. Hollywood's motion picture cameras and lenses used back at that time gave a picture and perspective that, again in my opinion, were not only unique, but in some ways superior to the special effects gadgets and gizmos of today. The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5, is that the picture, while focused pretty well, doesn't have a good, vivid black & white contrast to it. It's like a tint is on the film and wasn't cleared up before releasing it for home purchase. I used as much adjustment in the brightness and contrast functions as I could with my video player, but it made virtually no difference at all. On the other hand, there are 2 things that I was pleasantly surprised about: (1) The picture fills the entire screen of my 43" flat screen TV. In my experience, most remakes of older movies don't fill the screen unless you put it on the zoom mode. (2) I've always had a passion for how movies are made, and there is a special feature on this DVD showing scenes of the making of the movie. Also, some of the actors, in later years, look back and comment on their roles in the film. And there's footage of the making of the Creature's costume. I absolutely LOVE watching and listening to all of that. All in all, I'm very happy to have the video. If the black & white had been vivid and clearly contrasted like so many other remakes of 50's shows are, I wouldn't have hesitated to have given it 5 stars. I thank God that I grew up when I did in this country, and movies like "Creature From The Black Lagoon" is just one of the reasons why.

Item arrived in good condition and on the day that was predicted. This is a terrible movie. It is so bad that I loved it.

This set of three films of the Creature series finally gets the full quality treatment it deserves. The first two "The Creature From The Black Lagoon" and "The Revenge of the Creature" are in both optional 3-D and 2-D - "Revenge..." gets its first quality print release in 3-D and the third "The Creature Walks Among Us" gets its first blu ray release and the quality in all three films is commendable. Most would be familiar with the first - and best - of these creature feature's. However, while "Revenge..." lacks any real worth in terms of story and originality - its the Gill Man that takes all the attention with plenty of underwater shots and all mostly coming at you in 3-D. The third made in flat 2-D is I consider a little more original, with some well delivered scenes that have you feeling more empathy for the Gill Man - the usual mis-understanding by man, clouded with fear and ignorance and the creature responds accordingy. The Creature - in all films continues to inspire for its original concept - unlike any other film creation, the very last of that era of the 1950's and so far never remade except a more recent and loving tribute of a gentler soul depiction in the Oscar winning "Shape of Water".

When I was a kid, I used to sneak to the lounge room door to watch movies that mum and dad were watching. The Creature from the Black Lagoon came on and it scared the life out of me but I loved it and am now so happy I have my own copy. My daughter even likes it

Excelente película en Blu-ray del Mounstro de la Laguna Negra de 1954,se ve bien,trae subtítulos en español. Es la trilogía. Llego en buenas condiciones.

This is one for my old classic's collection, I still love it as much as I did when I watched it as a child

Films here look very much like good quality transfer. Can't play the 3D versions but I wasn't expecting to, since I have neither a 3D player or set.