Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) is the movie for this Sunday’s “monsterdon” watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, September 14, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/683697/creature-from-the-black-lagoon
• uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for that tubi link
• archive: https://archive.org/details/creature-from-the-black-lagoon
• archive (colorized): https://archive.org/details/creature-from-the-black-lagoon-1954-colorized
• archive: https://archive.org/details/creature-from-the-black-lagoon-1954_202406
• someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time. they will be pre-streaming the movie soundtrack, and following the movie they will stream Revenge of the Creature (1955).
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/creature-1-creature-from-the-black-lagoon-1954

The film’s plot follows a group of scientists who encounter a piscine amphibious humanoid in the waters of the Amazon

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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of 46 critics’ reviews are positive. The website’s consensus reads: “A solid, atmospheric creature feature that entertains without attempting to be deeper than it needs.”[9] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 68 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating “generally favorable” reviews.[10]

Leonard Maltin awarded the film three out of four stars, writing: “Archetypal '50s monster movie has been copied so often that some of the edge is gone, but … is still entertaining, with juicy atmosphere and luminous underwater photography sequences.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_from_the_Black_Lagoon

also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_impact_of_Creature_from_the_Black_Lagoon