Swamp Thing (film)
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| Directed by | Wes Craven |
| Produced by |
Benjamin Melniker Michael E. Uslan |
| Screenplay by | Wes Craven |
| Based on |
Swamp Thing by Len Wein Bernie Wrightson |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Harry Manfredini |
| Cinematography | Robbie Greenberg |
| Edited by | Richard Bracken |
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Swampfilms
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| Distributed by |
Embassy Pictures (Sony Pictures Entertainment) |
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Running time
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91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2.5 million |
Swamp Thing is a 1982 American science fiction action horror film written and directed by Wes Craven, based on the DC Comics (later Vertigo Comics) character of the same name created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. It tells the story of scientist Alec Holland (Ray Wise) who becomes transformed into the monster Swamp Thing (Dick Durock) through laboratory sabotage orchestrated by the evil Anton Arcane (Louis Jourdan). Later, he helps a woman named Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau) and battles the man responsible for it all, the ruthless Arcane.
In the swamps of Louisiana, Doctor Alec Holland works with his sister Linda on a top-secret bio-engineering project to create a plant/animal hybrid capable of thriving in extreme environments. Government agent Alice Cable arrives just as Holland makes a major breakthrough, and begins to develop feelings for him. However, a paramilitary group led by the evil Dr. Anton Arcane, who is obsessed with immortality, kills Linda while trying to steal the formula for their own purposes. During the attack, Alice escapes and Alec is covered in chemicals, caught on fire, and runs screaming in the swamp, presumably to die. However, he returns as a monstrously mutated plant creature. As the Swamp Thing, Holland battles Arcane's forces to protect Cable, and eventually takes on Arcane himself, also mutated by the Holland formula.
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