Wes Craven directed this dismal 1982 horror spoof based on a DC comic about a scientist (Ray Wise) who transforms himself into a rampaging plant. The film is too lazy to provide any actual jokes with its send-up of the genre—it just exudes a hip, condescending attitude while the actors (Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau) ham […]

Swamp Thing lurches onto Blu-ray looking better than ever, complete with an impressive roster of extras.

Writer-director Wes Craven's adaptation of the DC Comics book, Swamp Thing, to live-action feature filming is a childish programmer, short on thrills and laughs.

"Swamp Thing" had already won my heart before its moment of greatness, but when that moment came, I knew I'd discovered another one of those movies that fall

A research scientist (Wise), contaminated while working on a government project in Louisiana bayou country, mutates into the peaceable and amorous 'swamp thing'

Clipping found in Newsday (Suffolk Edition) published in Melville, New York on 7/30/1982. Secret of NIMH / Swamp Thing *