This film is nothing more than a countrified remake of terrible film called Voodoo Woman (1956). Yes it's countrified - listen to the accents. And the acting is just as awful as the original film. This is a classic example of a no-budget z-grade film with actors going nowhere.Why in the heck did they think that Voodoo Woman needed a remake to begin with - and if they did decide to remake the film then why make it worse than the already terrible original film? Shouldn't this film be a little bit better than the original? UGH! Okay to be fair this is a made for TV remake so I guess it shouldn't be a bit better than the original but I wish it was. I couldn't make it through the first film and there's no way I can make it through this film.I like a bad B-film that is good but these are so bad they are a waste of film, time and a little bit of money to make. Not to mention a waste of time to finish watching.1/10

***SPOILERS*** Filmed in the muddy alligator infested swamps of Uncertain Texas the film has to do with an oil drilling crew header by handsome geologist Barry Rogers, John Agar, that leads to disaster. Not in not finding oil but running into the crazed and obsessive Dr. Simond Trent played by Jeff Alexander who looks like a combination of Gonzo journalist Hunter Tompson and psycho and murderous evangelist Jim Jones. It turns out that Dr. Trent is trying to reverse the evolutionary process by turning man, or in some cases women, back to his primeval state of fishes & amphibians. Things soon get so out of hand that the local natives in the area that Dr. Trent experiments with revolt against him but in the end it's his pet alligators, that he keeps in his swimming pool, that eventually does him in.Even though what seems like a very reluctant John Agar, in having anything to do with this mess, is the star he spends most of his time on screen sleeping as if he's trying to distance himself from this turkey of a movie. It's Jeff Alexander as the crazed Dr. Trent who really runs the show as well as runs everyone in the movie nuts with his plans to turns them into fish and lizards that in the end, to everyones relief, backfires on him. It's when he finally succeeds in his experiments when he turns the organizer of this crazy expedition Bernda Simmions, Shirley McLain, into a fish-woman she in seeing what Dr. Trent did to her turns against him.There's also Dr. Trent's not so loyal assistant who never liked the guy in the first place Valjean, Ted Mitchell,who starts up a revolt by the local and voodoo worshiping population that really leads to nowhere.In that their so spaced out and on drugs that they can barley stand on their feet. It's Brenda the fish-women who finally puts an end to Dr. Trent's insanity by dumping him into his alligator infested swimming pool with them having him for lunch with Brenda, after seeing how she looked in the mirror, jumping in to join him!

I don't know where to begin with this monstrosity of a movie. The title, and the TV guide synopsis caught my eye. What I watched instead was a horror of a film that brought horrible acting, awful camera work, cheesy dialog, awful editing and dubbing, and a (merciful) all too brief glimpse of the cheapest monster ever to grace B movies. From the house that looks like it was in some subdivision ( complete with electric meter even though the mad Dr mentions the house is powered by it's own generator since there is no electricity for miles) that was passed off as being in the depths of a remote swamp; to the crystal clear pool water in the alligator pit in some shots that magically transforms into muddy water stock shots of alligators. To think that John Agar, who 15 years prior to this was acting alongside John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and other great actors, and was directed by John Ford, being reduced to this schlock is mind boggling. There was one scene where the mad Dr is on the gator pool diving board talking to his assistant, and then a second later the assistant is gone. No mention if he went in the pool, went back to the house, or just quit the film in disgust, although he did reappear later in the film. The karate chop by the older, smaller henchman to the huge other henchman, which appears to be about as powerful as a gnat landing on you, knocks out the huge guy. The Dr overacts so severely that calling him a ham would be a disservice to all hams. I can't imagine the budget for this thing reaching four figures, and that would be generous. I think the reason the monster did her ( or him) self in at the end was that she ( or he) realized just how awful the mask and the entire movie was. I can honestly say that this movie is without a doubt the worst movie I have ever watched. I would give it a zero, but unfortunately 1 is the lowest rating we can give on here.

When I looked at the DVD, there were two strong indicators that the film would be of the absolute worst quality. First, it was made in the 1960s and starred John Agar. In the 60s, Agar had slid from appearing in A-films and was appearing in a steady stream of z-grade films. Second, the film was made by one of the most inept directors in history--Larry Buchanan. Other Buchanan 'masterpieces' include the horrendous MARS NEEDS WOMEN, ZONTAR: THE THING FROM VENUS as well as IN THE YEAR 2889--films that even Ed Wood would have been embarrassed to have made!! And, while it did turn out that CURSE OF THE SWAMP CREATURE is a horrible film in almost every way, it still is better than these three other films!! The film begins with an oil prospector being murdered by staff at a sleazy hotel near the bayou. When another man from the same oil company (John Agar) comes to this tiny town looking for the dead man, the idiots who killed the guy decide to have on of them (a lady) pose as the dead man's wife--and say that she, too, is a scientist and will be carrying out her husband's work, as he's "unable to be here". This story makes no sense at all and why they would concoct such a tale is never all that clear, though at one point they say that they want to get Agar to show they where the oil is so they can claim it for themselves. Now considering that they would have to kill two oil company workers and then claim to have found the oil themselves makes it seem 100% certain that they would get caught.At the same time, in a separate story, an insane researcher is kidnapping folks and doing experiments to turn them into swamp monsters. When the experiments fail, he tosses the victims into a swimming pool filled with gators. Eventually Agar and his group meet up with the insane scientist in the swamp. Not surprisingly, bad things soon begin to happen! At many points in the film, the sound effects are either missing or badly mistimed. In one case, a guy is supposed to receive a phone call but the phone never rings...and then he picks it up anyway! Another time, the doctor's wife yells but the scream and the mouth opening and closing for the scream are several seconds out of synchronization! At other points, stock footage (particularly of the alligators) is terribly integrated into the film--and the gators make absolutely no sounds at all--even as they thrash about in the water. It's also funny, because they supposedly live in this small swimming pool but some of the clips show it is a larger sized lake filled with dirty brown water.As for the acting, it's bad but I've seen a lot worse. The only seriously bad actor is the doctor--he over-annunciates and over-acts throughout. Perhaps Jeff Alexander improved in later years, but here he is the worst of the main characters--though none of them could be confused for real actors. Amazingly, the acting might just be the strongest feature in this film! The direction is lackluster and often seemingly non-existent. Some of the shots are poorly framed and look more like home movies than something anyone would actually pay to see. I am not sure if Buchanan is also responsible for how grainy the film looks--this could just be due to the ravages of time and a bad DVD print. But, considering his other films I'm inclined to assume the worst as far as his directorial skills are concerned.By the way, the swamp creature of the title only begins to make its first appearance at the 74 minute mark--and then only a brief glimpse of its eyes. The actual creature in all its glory appears only in the final four minutes of the movie--and then mostly in distant shots or for a second or two at a time! With the words 'swamp creature' in the title, I sure was expecting to see a heck of a lot more!! However, I must honestly add that for a grade-z level swamp monster, there are actually one or two I've seen that wear much, much worse costumes (such as in THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH and its swamp man who has a bunch of hot dogs sticking out of its mouth).By the way, I watched an Ed Wood film earlier the same evening that I saw this. The Ed Wood film (THE VIOLENT YEARS) was 1000 times better...and yet, it too, also sucked! Overall, for technical merit, story, direction and acting, this one earns a 1 but it is strangely watchable for bad movie buffs. It is simply so bad that it's funny--as are all the Buchanan films that I have seen.