{"id":15366,"date":"2022-12-06T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15366"},"modified":"2022-12-05T16:11:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:11:06","slug":"swamp-thing-1982-wes-craven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15366","title":{"rendered":"Swamp Thing (1982, Wes Craven)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adrienne Barbeau visits swamp scientist Ray Wise, when bad guys attack, wanting the secret formula.  I saw Barbeau last week in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15339\">The Fog<\/a><\/em>, and saw this plot last week in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15338\">Five Dolls for an August Moon<\/a><\/em>&#8230; but in <em>Five Dolls<\/em> the scientist got dispatched with a rifle, and in this one Ray&#8217;s plant-animal-hybrid concoction turns him into Swamp Thing.<\/p>\n<p><em>S.T. uses his E.T. healing powers on the cool kid who assists Barbeau:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/swampthing1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s nice how the wide shots emulate photos of bigfoot sightings.  Everyone seems to have done the best they could, given low budget and talent.  Shapeshifting baddie Arcane also starred in a 1977 <em>Dracula<\/em> and a haunted mirror movie.  His strongman Bruno returned to the swamp for <em>Hell Comes to Frogtown<\/em>, and the guy in the monster suit would be back in <em>Return of Swamp Thing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bruno gets turned into a little beastie, just for fun:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/swampthing2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrienne Barbeau visits swamp scientist Ray Wise, when bad guys attack, wanting the secret formula. I saw Barbeau last week in The Fog, and saw this plot last week in Five Dolls for an August Moon&#8230; but in Five Dolls the scientist got dispatched with a rifle, and in this one Ray&#8217;s plant-animal-hybrid concoction turns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,54,3067,2001],"class_list":["post-15366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-horror","tag-swamp","tag-wes-craven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15383,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15366\/revisions\/15383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}