Swamp Thing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Swamp Thing or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Swamp Thing

[nicholas]

Wes Craven didn't work again for nearly two years after this film's release. "I kind of felt like I had had my chance and kind of blown it and would probably never work again. Normally I feel that after almost every film."

[tom]

By portraying Swamp Thing in this film's sequel [The Return of Swamp Thing](/category/6824/the-return-of-swamp-thing) (1989), actor-stuntman Dick Durock became the first person since Christopher Reeve in the "Superman" films franchise to reprise a DC superhero role. Durock also played the character in the television series Swamp Thing (1990).

[jesus]

The character of Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau) is an amalgam of two characters, Abby Arcane and Matthew Joseph Cable, from the source "Swamp Thing" comic books, who in them was married to Matthew Cable and is the niece of Dr. Anton Arcane, the latter of whom in the film is played by Louis Jourdan.

[ruby]

They looked at some back lots in Los Angeles as possible shooting locales "I think the Creature from the Black Lagoon pond was still in Hollywood at the time, but it was relatively quite small" but wisely settled on filming in a real swamp. The only exception was the action scene involving the men in boats chasing and fighting with the Swamp Thing which was filmed on a small lake outside LA.

[manuel]

Wes Craven was unaware of the Swamp Thing before being approached to direct the adaptation because he had no access to comics while growing up. "They were forbidden by the church I was raised in." He found the idea fascinating though, and after reading through the series he was ready to jump in fully.

[ava]

Wes Craven has nothing kind to say about the completion bond company on this film. "I won't name any names, but they were not friendly, and they were not helpful. They just played the tough guys all the time." They demanded Craven cut scenes from the third act so they could stay on schedule and under budget.

[kyle]

The water vessels that glide across the swamps are known as airboats or fanboats.

[riley]

The movie's MacGuffin was a hormonal plant Bio-Restorative formula developed as part of a top-secret bio-engineering project to create a plant-animal hybrid entity capable of co-existing in extreme environmental conditions.

[gerald]

They filmed in the swamps of South Carolina, and it was fairly miserable. "It was during a ferociously hot summer with very, very high humidity, and there was a black caterpillar plague, so they were in the trees in big clumps and would drop down on your head and sting you."

[cameron]

Music composer Harry Manfredini had previously composed the music score for Friday the 13th (1980) and Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) (as well as their later sequels) with his score for Swamp Thing (1982) containing multiple similarities to the theme music from the franchise.

[gerald]

Clark asks about the exchange between Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau) and Dr. Alec Holland (Wise) when she tells him to "Save the malarkey for your wife Holland!" The character isn't married so Clark wonders if something was cut from the script or film. "They went out of character for a moment there," jokes Craven, "and were talking to each other as actors." He actually doesn't remember but suggests it's probably due to a cut scene.

[steve]

Karen Price, who has a walk-on part as Arcane's messenger, was also Adrienne Barbeau's uncredited stunt double.

[linda]

They caught some grief from the guy who owned the limousine used for Arcane's character after he witnessed them fish-tailing it in an effort to turn around. "He just totally flipped out, 'That was not in our contract!'"

[nora]

The movie generated one sequel, The Return of Swamp Thing (1989), which got made and released about seven years after this film. The picture also has generated two television spin-offs, Swamp Thing (1990) and Swamp Thing (1990).