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[Bud Brewster]

From producer-director Larry Buchanan, the man who gave us Mars Needs Women" and Zontar - The Thing from Venus, comes this low-budget film about a mad doctor in the Florida Everglades who creates bald-headed "reptile man" with snake-eye pupils and eyes as big as ping pong balls.




The incredible John Agar arrives with a geological expedition and becomes entangled in the doctor's difficulties with the locals.

The doctor's experiments aren't succeeding too well (one experiment turns the doctor's wife into a monster). Also starring Francine York of Space Monster, another AIP-TV production released the previous year.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

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[Bud Brewster]

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Damn, I good!
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_________ Curse of the Swamp Creature (1966)


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

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IMDB has 8 trivia items for this movie. Imagine my surprise when several of them were actually interesting!

Here’s a few of the ones I chose, in the blue text.
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~ The titular creature doesn't actually show up until the last 6 minutes of the film.

Note from me: In view of what disastrous mess the creature is, I regard this as a blessing.

~ Director Larry Buchanan later went on record saying "Never make a swamp picture. Your film comes back and it's all . . . strange".

Note from me: An impressive statement. Truer words were never said . . . whatever they mean.

~ The movie was filmed in Uncertain, Texas where the Fly-N-Fish Lodge and Airport seen in early scenes still exists.

Note from me: Are they certain it was filmed in Uncertain? Can we ever be certain about anything in life? And just what do people do in the Fly-N-Fish Lodge? I'm thinking I'd like to go there and find out . . . but to be honest, I'm uncertain!

~ The webbed-fingered, hospital gown-clad creature was created using primitive prosthetic make-up and grayish green body paint, and not the infamous cheap and phony-looking scalloped-scaled rubber wetsuit and fiercely-fanged fish head mask with painted ping-pong-ball eyes Buchanan later used in Creature of Destruction and 'It's Alive!'.

Note from me: Well, bless my soul! I'm delighted that they cleared THAT up! I couldn't go to sleep tonight without know this.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)