All 3 Creature from the Black Lagoon Movies, Ranked

If The Shape of Water counted, it would be quite comfortably the best of the movies featuring the Gill-man, AKA the titular creature from Creature from the Black Lagoon. But that Guillermo del Toro-directed Best Picture winner instead featured a similar creature, and was certainly influenced by the official Creature from the Black Lagoon movies, but wasn’t related to the series specifically. It’s actually a bit of an odd horror series to talk about, owing to the relatively few official films. They were all made in the 1950s, though the Gill-man endures as a pop-cultural icon, and any movies that feature amphibious half-man/half-fish creatures will probably be indebted to the original film in one way or another. But it’s not like The Mummy, Frankenstein, Dracula, or even The Invisible Man, where those series have continued to exist – and be rebooted – long after the decade during which their first respective movies came out.