Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Filmed in the muddy alligator infested swamps of Uncertain Texas the film has to do with an oil drilling crew header by handsome geologist Barry Rogers, John Agar, that leads to disaster. Not in not finding oil but running into the crazed and obsessive Dr. Simond Trent played by Jeff Alexander who looks like a combination of Gonzo journalist Hunter Tompson and psycho and murderous evangelist Jim Jones. It turns out that Dr. Trent is trying to reverse the evolutionary process by turning man, or in some cases women, back to his primeval state of fishes & amphibians. Things soon get so out of hand that the local natives in the area that Dr. Trent experiments with revolt against him but in the end it's his pet alligators, that he keeps in his swimming pool, that eventually does him in.Even though what seems like a very reluctant John Agar, in having anything to do with this mess, is the star he spends most of his time on screen sleeping as if he's trying to distance himself from this turkey of a movie. It's Jeff Alexander as the crazed Dr. Trent who really runs the show as well as runs everyone in the movie nuts with his plans to turns them into fish and lizards that in the end, to everyones relief, backfires on him. It's when he finally succeeds in his experiments when he turns the organizer of this crazy expedition Bernda Simmions, Shirley McLain, into a fish-woman she in seeing what Dr. Trent did to her turns against him.There's also Dr. Trent's not so loyal assistant who never liked the guy in the first place Valjean, Ted Mitchell,who starts up a revolt by the local and voodoo worshiping population that really leads to nowhere.In that their so spaced out and on drugs that they can barley stand on their feet. It's Brenda the fish-women who finally puts an end to Dr. Trent's insanity by dumping him into his alligator infested swimming pool with them having him for lunch with Brenda, after seeing how she looked in the mirror, jumping in to join him!

gavin6942 Deep in the rural swamps of Texas, Dr. Simond Trent (Jeff Alexander) is conducting experiments on the local swamp people in an attempt to discover the secret of evolution. When a party of oil surveyors comes upon his isolated laboratory he decides to take the final step and turn one of them into a grotesque amphibious creature.First of all, if you are watching this for the "swamp creature", you may be disappointed. It gets a very, very few minutes of screen time. But if you want to see the story of a scientist that thinks life evolves from a swamp, including people evolving from snakes rather than apes, then you might like this.The picture quality is a bit odd. Not good or bad, but hard to really define. At least we get science fiction legend John Agar.

mlamar-3 As another reviewer writes, the "curse" part of the title is correct! This has to be the worst movie I remember seeing! I would have rated this film with a negative star, if such a rating were available. The only redeeming feature is Francine York as the mad scientist's wife. She is beautiful! The production, though, looks like a high school film--but worse! The sets are really cheap looking, and one of the actors actually compliments the doctor on having a ceiling fan that works! An alternative name for this film could have been "Yech!" The local dancer, though, is good. Too bad the director couldn't have emphasized some to the film's good points and rewritten the movie, accordingly.

lewiskendell "To create life, to move it up and down the evolutionary path...that's something. Something I don't think you quite appreciate, Tom."It only took me a few seconds of watching the preview of Curse of the Swamp Monster to know that this was going to be must-see, comic gold. And it was. It's hard to believe that something this terrible was made intentionally, but against all reason, logic, and common sense, it was.The only possible point to watching this would be to laugh. The absurdly unintentional humor of it all is its only merit. If you want to start your own personal Mystery Science Theater party, this is a great movie to get you going. Awful acting. A nonsensical plot. No production values whatsoever. Everything about it is laughable, right down to the sinister, talkative scientist with his comically large dark glasses and his borderline retarded plan to do...something or other. I was never quite sure. It involved evolution, swamps, tubes, and turtle snacks, that's for certain.  The absolute best part about this monster movie, is that the titular swamp monster only shows up for about 3 minutes at the very end. Which is fortunate, in a way, because the monster's "costume" is one of the stupidest and least threatening "designs" that I've ever seen in my life.  And no explanation is ever made about what happens to it, we're just given a quick and tidy ending that completely ignored most of the plot threads that preceded it. Brilliant!