Swampy’s Florida Halloween Movies: Creature from the Black Lagoon
The 1954 film, ‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’, is not known for it’s Florida location shots. However, the underwater scenes were shot in, what is now, Ed Ball Wakulla Springs State Park thirty minutes south of Tallahasasee. The underwater shots of The Gill-Man were shot at the springs due to the clearness of the spring water.
Fort Pierce native Ricou Browning wore the underwater version of The Gill-Man suit and actress Ginger Stanley doubled for Julie Adams as the lady in distress underwater.
I could write for hours about and all that came from it involving film in Florida. It was a real wake up call to the silly idea of making films in Florida and occasionally has been massively ignored just to have reality stop the silliness and the film folks go away again.
I need to do a podcast about this.
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