PLEASE DON'T DISGRACE THE CREATURE!

There has been some recent online banter that Director, Breck Eisner(Sahara), will be behind a remake of the Universal classic Creature From The Black Lagoon. I have some serious reservations about this. It's one thing to remake crappy 1980's movies, but to take something as "holy" as one of the original horror movies, is nearly sacrilege.

Eisner recently spoke to horror site ShockTilYouDrop about his remake -- specifically about how much CGI will be involved. "The Creature has been designed; we've spent six months designing him," explained Eisner, who also revealed that the beasty is based on a maquette designed by Mark McCreery (Jurassic Park, Pirates of the Caribbean). "We went top shelf on it. It's very faithful to the original, but updated." Eisner was also asked about the tone of the film and how sympathetic the creature would be. "We debated tone a thousand times. For me tone is the most interesting thing a filmmaker has and so the creature is a creature, it's not a monster. That's my number one thing about the movie. We're not going to turn him into a monster. He's still going to be empathetic, he's still going to be deadly, he's still going to have a misguided means of expressing his interests in a woman, but it's uniquely the creature. It's empathy for a deadly creature and tone plays a big part of that."

Overall, I must admit that Eisner's words are encouraging, but I still object to the idea of bringing back, or reinventing, if you will, the great Creature from the Black Lagoon. I will be surprised if this new incarnation of the creature will even come close to being as monumental as the original. PLEASE DON'T DISGRACE THE CREATURE!