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The extensive and persistent impact on media and popular culture of ''Creature from the Black Lagoon'' began even before it was seen in theaters. To publicize the release of the film in 1954, Ben Chapman, in costume, introduced the Creature to the public on live television in ''The Colgate Comedy Hour'' with Abbott and Costello. ==Film influence== Many films featuring monsters put the Creature's likeness in the background as an homage. Its likeness was also used for the film ''The Monster Squad''. However, due to licensing issues with Universal, the creature is referred to as "Gill-Man". In the 1955 comedy ''The Seven Year Itch'', Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell come out of a theater showing ''Creature from the Black Lagoon''. Monroe expresses some sympathy for the Creature, saying that it was not really bad and "just wanted to be loved". In the 1990 cult film ''Johnny In Monsterland'', Johnny has a nightmare in a sequence where he "spawns" with a sea monster referred to as "the inverted mermaid". The "inverted mermaid" was a nude female wearing a Don Post Creature mask and hands. Director William Winckler was inspired by the film when producing his 2005 black-and-white horror film ''Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove''. In the 90-minute retro monster movie, a bio-genetically engineered half-man, half-fish creature battles Frankenstein's monster on a beach and beneath the waves, with underwater photography reminiscent of the underwater shots in ''Creature from the Black Lagoon''. A stuntman/diver wearing a full-body latex rubber costume was used to portray the Blood Cove creature on camera, not unlike Ben Chapman and Ricou Browning in costume in ''Creature from the Black Lagoon''. In ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'', there is a character in Halloween Town who is clearly meant to be a version of the Gill-man. In one song, it ponders the contents of Jack's present: "Perhaps it's the head that I found in the lake". The half-man, half-fish character known as The Missing Link (often referred to as "Link") in the film ''Monsters vs. Aliens'' is an homage to the Creature. In ''Hotel Transylvania'', there are multiple Gill-men in the crowd scenes with other famous monsters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Creature from the Black Lagoon Legacy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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