Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Catherina If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

GL84 Moving to a new town, a sheriff in a Louisiana swamp learns that the series of disappearances to the local oil-rig workers are the result of a protective creature summoned from tribal folklore and must find a way of stopping it's rampage through the swamp.This here wasn't that bad and had some rather enjoyable parts to it. One of the film's greatest strengths is the swamp-design and lay-out here which is one of the creepiest locations for a film with the long branches, moss dripping off everything, and the generally twisted design of the trees make for a some nice suspense-building. This gives the film such a superb setting for a creature feature that it really sells this one quite nicely on that alone, while there's two other important factors come into play with this as well. The first is the fact that most of the time we are inside the swamp is late at night, which means that it's almost impossible to see five feet into the swamp with the mist that rises over the water, and there is an ever- present green-ish light coming from the swamp that makes it seem even more eerie than it has every right to be, and which creates the appropriate suspense-filled atmosphere. When it gets to the later half and starts in on the action this one gets even better with the fine set done with the location filming. It's opening attack is quite nasty and brutal, the scenes of the sheriff out hunting in the swamp gets in some atmospheric shots while the scene of it stalking the brothers out in the swamp makes for a rather enjoyable sequence, and even the shorter attacks featured here are quite fun with the creature getting in some suspenseful ambushes that are quite fun. The final assault is a pretty nice series of action set-pieces and other moves until the end which is a series of chases and escapes that start with the numerous scenes in the swamp and ending with the big fight at the oil well that's all sorts of fun The title creature is a pretty nice creation and is certainly original-looking with the root-covered body, crest and human-like form being quite impressive. There is also some great deaths with a fair amount of blood-splatter as well in here which are are enough to hold this one up over it's few flaws. The main element here is the fact that the beginning of the film is pretty slow and it takes a while for the film to get going. This is filled with so much environmental preaching about the sacredness of the swamp and the connection to the native folklore of the region that's quite nice overall but still there's little about it that really seems necessary to tell the story and as a result it's hard to get the film to get the point. Also, even though the creature is a nice overall concept, it's design is pretty weird and not exactly one to strike fear through the odd designs and angles. There was also a repeated element in the film that really annoyed me: the scenes shot from the creatures POV. It works at first to get the viewer a little on ease, then it just becomes annoying and is used too much for it to be an effective tactic. These here hold this one back.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Brief Nudity and scenes of sexual activities.

Nigel P Man-Thing was a monstrous swamp-dwelling creature who starred in a handful of Marvel Comics' series beginning in 1971. During this time, the company had success with classic monsters Dracula, Werewolf and Frankenstein's Monster. These characters and others had their own publications in America, which were edited into episodes to form the UK's 'Dracula Lives', which was one of the main reasons for my burgeoning interest in horror. Original Marvel characters were also developed, like Ghost-Rider and Morbius, but none had the staying power of Man-Thing.This curious film was released in 2005 as a straight-to-television venture, but also enjoyed limited theatrical release. Set in the swamps of Louisiana, but filmed in Australia, it bears little resemblance to the mighty comic strip, which under main writer Steve Gerber, showed Man-Thing had an empathic nature.The central creature isn't seen until right at the end of the film. Diminishing budget was probably the cause for this, but when he is seen, he is quite impressive. There are characters in the film called Mike Ploog and Val Mayarik. In 'real life', these men provided much of the art for the original strips. Steve Gerber is also named as a character.Apart from Australian actors assuming American accents with varying success, this is quite a good looking film. Certainly the swamp-lands and scenes of encroaching industria are shot and lit in a very striking fashion. Only the script serves to let things down a little. There is an occasional bout of gore to spice things up, but little in the way of character development, so it isn't easy to care about them, despite the best intentions of the actors. The whole story serves as a lead-up to meeting the Man-Thing itself, and when he is revealed, things liven up considerably.

dashizer7 I went into this movie knowing it was probably low budget (and it seemed to be), made for TV, and all sorts of things, but something inside me thought there was more to this. I was very wrong and at some point without even knowing who the actors are, anything really about the film besides the "monster" it is named after and appears in the film that this was Australian. Why am I mentioning this being Australian? Because the main female protagonist has an accent an accent that is supposed to be a Southern style bayou like accent, but you hear these glimpses of her real accent her Australian accent and this goes for many of the Australian characters.I find it also tropish, or in a way offensive that every movie dealing with nature and spirits seem to end up with Native Americans. That's not the only offensive thing there are the garish dead bodies which are obviously props, or a guy with make up. ***Spoiler*** One of the dead guys the racist security guard can be seen breathing in the scene where the sheriff kneels down to examine him at the behest of the coroner.I wouldn't say the acting was all bad, and I think the actors did their best but the guy who wrote this sucked, the director was terrible, whoever was in charge of cinematography needs to have been fired. It's an interesting watch just don't expect anything from this besides a cool looking creature.

ma-cortes An Oil Company whose owner is an ambitious villain(Jack Thompson)is polluting the Bywater lands and the villagers are up in arms and a swamp thing is committing horrible murders. A new sheriff named Kyle(Matthew Le Nevez) arrives the little town. He is sent to the Bayou to investigate , helped by a deputy (Alex O'Loughlin) . There finds a beast, a plant with an animal's aggression power for survival and fury. Meanwhile the sheriff falls in love with a gorgeous elementary school teacher named Teri ( Rachael Taylor).This exciting picture is packed by thrills, chills, gory killings and brief nudism in charge of Imogen Bailey. It's an unusual mix of monster movie and intrigue but definitely an enjoyable movie. From the producers- Avi Arad and Stan Lee- of Spiderman, Daredevil, X men, Blade and several others. Director Brett Leonard made this campy swamp romp adapted from the Marvel comic books of the same name. Director deliberately use comic-book style to keep us from taking anything too seriously. It's a co-production USA-Australia filmed in Sydney , New South Wales with good cinematography by Steve Arnold. Fans horror will love this movie about a monster part vegetable, part man . In similar style adapted from D.C. Comics were made in 1982 ¨The Swamp Thing¨ by Wes Craven with Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau and Ray Wise in which a chemical installation turns into walking vegetation monster. And its following : ¨Return of Swamp Thing¨(1989) by Jim Wynorski with Heather Lockleaar, Lous Jourdan and Sarah Douglas.