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The Creature Walks Among Us 1956 ★★
How about that? A creature feature where the actual creature is often pretty much an aftertought.
Based on the cover, one would expect a lot of campy carnage. But here, it takes a backseat to a love triangle with the juicy taste of day-old bread.
What gains the second star? The few bits of action with amongst other a stunt where they set a stunt man on fire. Knowing how people raved on how about the fire stunts in ANOES and The New Blood in the eighties, I can imagine this must have been quite the feat in the fifties.
I also love the almost synchronized swimming way in which the monster moves through the water. Or how one character one moment seems to have the bends or something similar, and then literally thirty seconds later, she's fine. Up and smoking. Proving once again that there's no camp like fifties camp.
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