Garbage. CreatureFromBlackLagoon + Sex&Violence

Rating: 1/10 (28 February 2018)

What is this picture doing in the Oscar nominations? It's a sexually twisted take on Creature From the Black Lagoon. Government scientists have an amphibious creature in a top secret lab, studying whether it's suitable as a passenger in an experimental space capsule during the Cold War race to put a man on the moon. A night-shift cleaning lady accidentally discovers the creature in its tank, falls in love, and starts having sex with it. Really. We're supposed to feel empathy for the "lucky couple," she having found her true partner after years of sexual frustration (we see her masturbating in the bath tub a couple of times), and he/it having found someone in the lab who actually respects him. Well, except for the part about using him for sex. Rated R, it's hard for me to see why any responsible parent would think it's OK for kids to watch. I went home and took a shower just to wash off the creepy feeling from this trash.