Dr. Alec Holland, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying to create a new species - a combination of animal and plant capable of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions. Unfortunately he becomes subject of his own creation and is transformed . . . Arcane, desperate for the formula attempts to capture the Swamp Thing. An explosive chase ensues that ultimately ends with a confrontation between Holland and a changed Arcane . . .
Written by
Mark Harding
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Music composer Harry Manfredini had previously composed the music score for Friday the 13th (1980) and Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) (as well as their later sequels) with his score for Swamp Thing (1982) containing multiple similarities to the theme music from the franchise.
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Dick Durock was forced into the role of the Swamp Thing by necessity. He'd been brought on board the project as a stuntman, but the filmmakers found that it was impossible to go from Durock to Ray Wise - who had been cast as Alec Holland, Swamp Thing's former self - and back again because the two men looked so different in Swamp Thing's makeup.
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Louis Jourdan's son died during filming.
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Actress Adrienne Barbeau appeared in both Creepshow (1982) and Swamp Thing (1982), with both films being comic book movies and both debuting in the same 1982 year, with Creepshow (1982) being a tribute to both the DC & EC horror comic books, and Swamp Thing (1982) being a filmed adaptation of the DC horror/sci-fi comic book character and its "Swamp Thing" DC comic books.
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Portraying the Swamp Thing creature in this movie, with the film's sequel The Return of Swamp Thing (1989), actor-stuntman Dick Durock became the first person since Christopher Reeve in the "Superman" films franchise to reprise a superhero role of a DC Comics protagonist. Durock also played the character in the television series Swamp Thing (1990).
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Adrienne Barbeau went on to provide the voice of 'Catwoman' on "Batman: The Animated Series," another show based on a DC Comics character.
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Karen Price, who has a walk-on part as Arcane's messenger, was also Adrienne Barbeau's uncredited stunt double.
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The movie is "a spoof on the mad scientist movies of the 1950s" according to Michael Betzold at website 'Allmovie' whilst Graeme Clark at the 'Spinning Image' website states that the film "could pass as an update of one of those nineteen-fifties mad scientist science fiction movies" whilst 'The Aurum Film Encyclopaedia Science Fiction' states the movie is a "homage to fifties monster-movies and comic-book aesthetics".
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This was the second time Dick Durock played a green, monstrous, mutated version of a "normal" man in a comic book adaptation, after the two-part Incredible Hulk episode "The First."
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The movie generated one sequel, The Return of Swamp Thing (1989), which got made and released about seven years after this film. The picture also has generated two television spin-offs, Swamp Thing (1990) and Swamp Thing (1991).
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WILHELM SCREAM: Can be heard as Swamp Thing throws a thug out of his airboat.
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The character of Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau) is an amalgam of two characters, Abby Arcane and Matthew Joseph Cable, from the source "Swamp Thing" comic books, who in them was married at different times to both Matthew Cable is and Dr. Anton Arcane, the latter of whom in the film is played by Louis Jourdan but the two are antagonists and are not romantically involved.
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Though the swamp scenes are set in the Louisiana Bayou they were actually filmed on location at Cypress Gardens in Moncks Corner, South Carolina. The movie also lensed at Charleston and Johns Island in the same American state.
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The film was made and released about ten years after its source DC Comics book of the same name was first published in late 1972 and about eleven years after the first appearance of the Swamp Thing character in the No. #92 ed. of the DC Comics book "House of Secrets" which was published in mid-1971. The edition has been of note for being the publication that introduced the Swamp Thing character which was created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson.
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Actors Louis Jourdan and Dick Durock both reprised their roles as Dr. Anton Arcane and Swamp Thing respectively in the movie's sequel The Return of Swamp Thing (1989). Both pictures also featured some of the same crew personnel as well, including producers Michael E. Uslan and Benjamin Melniker.
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First cinema movie in the science-fiction genre for director Wes Craven who usually works in the horror genre of which this film is also a part.
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One of the few DC comics films not to be released by Warner Bros.
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One of two 1982 theatrical releases which feature a mutated plant man or plant humanoid creature comprised of vegetable matter. The originally titled "Weeds" segment re-named "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" in Creepshow (1982) starred writer Stephen King, and adapted from King's own short story, features a plant organism slowly growing on Jordy Verrill (Stephen King) after he discovers a meteorite land in his back yard which oozes a mysterious green substance.
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When initially released on DVD in the United States, the international version of the movie containing scenes of nudity not seen in US theaters was accidentally transferred instead of the US version. After complaints from viewers, the DVD was recalled.
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Debut theatrical feature film as full producers produced by both of the movie's producers Michael E. Uslan and Benjamin Melniker though the latter had previously acted in executive producer roles.
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The movie's opening prologue states: "Not long ago, in the unexplored reaches of an unmapped swamp, the creative genius of one man collided with another's evil dream and a monster was born. Too powerful to be destroyed, too intelligent to be captured, this being still pursues its savage dream".
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The movie's MacGuffin was a hormonal plant Bio-Restorative formula developed as part of a top-secret bio-engineering project to create a plant-animal hybrid entity capable of co-existing in extreme environmental conditions.
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Anton Arcane was neither the killer of the first nor the second Swamp Thing in the original comic.
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The names of the water vessels which glide across the swamps are known as airboats or fanboats.
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When Bruno drinks the formula and shrinks, his clothes shrink right along with him.
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The Swamp Thing performs his veggie-magic healing trick on Cable, curing her wound where she was stabbed. Remarkably, those pesky blood stains on her shirt also vanish.
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The first time Arcane's thugs chase Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau) in the swamp, one of the guys shoots his own man and the squad leader takes his rifle away from him. After a quick cut away, the original shooter has his rifle back.
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When Swamp Thing first appears, he grabs Ferret and yanks him into the water, totally submerging and soaking him (including his head). A minute or two later Ferret's head is dry.
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When Arcane's henchmen are drowning Alice Cable, soon after the "accident", Cable's hand reaches out of the water to fend off the attacker while the rest of her is submerged, but the hand is clearly that of a man's.
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After escaping their cell and swinging thru the well to the swamp, Cable is deposited on the bank, her lingerie wet and clingy as well as her hair. Cut to Arcane flailing with the sword, and then cut back to Cable now sitting up on something, beautiful hair and gown completely dry.
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When Jude drops Cable off on shore before he gets attacked, his boat changes positions from shot to shot.
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In the scene after the Swamp Thing heals Jude, he walks by a very large bush that is clearly camouflage netting.
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When mutated Arcane has a sword and is fighting the Swamp Thing close to the end of the movie, right before Cable is stabbed, Arcane-Thing raises his sword overhead for a crashing blow down onto Swampie, and you can see that the monster suit has ripped in the armpits.
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When Barbeau gets to the pay phone. The sound that's heard after she puts her money in the phone, is the sound that the phone company used to play when a phone had been left off the hook. The use of the sound dates back to the 1950's and 60's. It has since been discontinued.
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When Jude and Cable are discussing the "tree" that Arkan's men's truck ran into, they look down at Swamp Thing's footprint and a white pointed toe shoe is clearly in the shot...however Cable & Jude are wearing black shoes.
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