Based on an successful DC comicbook about a scientist who transforms ino the title creature when his experiment goes wrong, Swamp Thing is an odd "horror" movie, in that it barely qualifies as "horror" at all. "Silly" is the only way this film can be described; a sweet-natured horror movie? Only the bad guy is bad, and even he is so campy it's like watching Vincent Price's Dr. Phibes on vallium. It almost seems to take a Beauty and the Beast tone after the scientist becomes the mossy Swamp Thing, who is mostly confined to a swamp where most of the action occurs. Now if Barbou were only a Vegan, this relationship would be paradise. Sorry; the movie inspires silly comments. It's not a parody, not a schlocky 60s flick, but surprisingly good-natured and above all, sincere. Rather odd for 80s horror. Watching it alone will inspire boredom, but watching it with friends will make for fun and loads of witty comments. Don't miss the romantic bittersweet goodbye at the end. Guess Barbou wasn't a Vegan after all.
Review of Swamp Thing
