I said, ‘If we put a gilled head on [the figurine ... Back to the Black Lagoon, Jack Arnold said, “We like the way you swam. How would you like to be the creature from the Black Lagoon?” ...

the Ultimate Creature from the Black Lagoon (Black & White), is a part of NECA’s popular Universal Monsters line. Based on the 1956 classic, the “Gill-man” comes with two alternate head ...

The monster suit in "Creature From the Black Lagoon" is one of the most memorable ... Then we were going to use a face mask, but it would make the nose protrude out too far." ...

But a full decade after first hearing it, that Amazonian fishman story was still sitting there in the back of his head ... the end of 1954 the Creature from the Black Lagoon had already grossed ...

he donned a cumbersome full-body suit to play the scaly, fleshy-lipped Gill-man, the amphibious humanoid who terrorizes actress Julie Adams in “Creature From the Black Lagoon” (1954).

Biersdorfer THE LADY FROM THE BLACK LAGOON ... wearing masks to protest the Washington “swamp.” But when the incident quickly went viral, it also highlighted the Creature’s solid place ...