![]() ![]() ![]() Gill-man has since become an iconic Universal monster, and although never reaching the status of Frankenstein's Monster, Count Dracula, Wolfman and others, it is still shown alongside his fellow monsters every time the line-up makes an appearance in media. He is the last of a race of amphibious humanoids that existed back in the Devonian age and resided in a lagoon deep in the Amazonian rainforest. The Gill-man (also better known as the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Swamp Creature and the Amphibian Man) is the titular main antagonist of the 1954 classic horror film The Creature from the Black Lagoon and its two sequels from 1955 ( Revenge of the Creature) and 1956 ( The Creature Walks Among Us). ~ The opening narration for The Creature from the Black Lagoon. The record of life is written on the land, where fifteen million years later, in the upper reaches of the Amazon, man is still trying to read it. In infinite variety, living things appear, and change, and reach the land, leaving a record of their coming, of their struggle to survive and of their eventual end. Now, in their warm depths, the miracle of life begins. ![]() The restless seas rise, find boundaries, are contained. The heat rises, meets the atmosphere, the clouds form and rain pours down upon the hardening surface for countless centuries. This is the planet Earth, newly born and cooling rapidly from a temperature of six thousand degrees to a few hundred in less than five billion years. In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth. ![]()
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