Swamp Thing

The film is too lazy to provide any actual jokes with its send-up of the genre.

Craven tries to do this 'veggie-man' horror in a suitable DC Comics style; and with Louis Jourdan as arch-villain 'Arcane', not to mention Adrienne Barbeau (Mrs John Carpenter) as the Thing's object of desire, he's definitely on the right track.

One of those movies that fall somewhere between buried treasures and guilty pleasures.

[The film] wants desperately to be funny and, from time to time, it is. However, you might wish it would trust the audience to discover the humor for itself.

This campy adaptation of the DC Comics series has always been the odd title out in Wes Craven's horror filmography. It's all the better for it, since it's one of the few movies from this overrated auteur that I can personally stand.

'Swamp Thing' may be more of a rubber monster creature feature than a truly accurate comic book adaptation, but it's a treat for fans of the movie and the graphic novels.

Swamp Thing has many dubious qualities, but it clearly isn't a piece of product tested and polished to a blinding gleam, and the world is duller for not letting oddball efforts like this slip into theaters once in a while.

masterfully entertaining film on a limited budget

Has a novelty value absent from the equally broken comic book adaptations of 20 years later.

...a disappointingly thin endeavor that seems to have been designed to appeal solely to young boys...

A muddled genre confused mess of a film...