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"The Return of Swamp Thing" – Liebe auf den zweiten Sumpf!

Manchmal schaut man einen Film und weiß sofort: Der ist schlecht. Die Effekte? Lächerlich. Die Story? Absurd. Und trotzdem passiert’s – man ist hin und weg. Genau das ist mir bei „The Return of Swamp Thing“ passiert, einem Film, der den Begriff "Trash" in eine neue Liga hebt und trotzdem irgendwie... wundervoll ist.

Die Story? Swamp Thing, unser Lieblingsheld aus dem Sumpf, kehrt zurück, um die Welt – oder wenigstens eine matschige Ecke davon – vor einem größenwahnsinnigen Wissenschaftler und seinen genetischen Monstern zu retten. Und klar, Romantik gibt es auch: Heather Locklear spielt die furchtlose Lady, die nicht nur mit ihren Pflanzen spricht, sondern sich…

Wynorski’s Return of the Swamp Thing > Craven’s Swamp Thing 
 
While there’s no doubt Return of the Swamp Thing is a supremely silly comic book sequel, I still found myself enjoying it more than the original, even finding the movie more entertaining than most superhero adaptations of its era, helped by the following: 
 
* An all-time classic title sequence

* Winking, silly dialogue. For example:
 
“But I’m a plant…”
 
“And I’m a vegetarian.”
 
* The horniest prepubescent kids in cinema history

* An absolutely gorgeous Heather Locklear, who proves she can vamp it up with best of them

* A Bondian big bad who has a secret laboratory in the bowls of his plantation mansion

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The late twentieth century was a veritable golden age if u were a Swamp Thing fan, mostly because Swamp Thing technically did not exist before the early seventies but come on, of course he did. There has always been a Swamp Thing! I am someone who adores pretty much every iteration of Swamp Thing. Currently I am (re)reading late-eighties Swamp Thing Comics, having just finished Moore & then Veitch's abbreviated run. I have just begun Wheeler & am most psyched to read Nancy A Collins, whose Sonja Blue Vampire Novels were/are splatterpunk favorites of mine. I have had for the last decade plus a framed poster of Eric Powells cover of Swamp Thing & Abigail from Swamp Thing # 22 Vol. 4 by…

"The Return of Swamp Thing" is a 1989 superhero film directed by Jim Wynorski. As "Swamp Thing" (1982) released on the earlier half of the decade, its reception was a bit mixed in its delivery. Wes Craven, who directed that film, was still somewhat in the early onset of his career, making a serviceable film that appears he mainly garnered to be a steppingstone to future projects. Especially this comes with the acknowledgement that he made streamlined drive to stay on a clear path with the budget, so as much as Craven still introduced his applications of auteur-based value, many were somewhat dissuaded by the production. I previously reviewed "Swamp Thing" and spoke about its marinated value of cult with…