YMMV / Revenge of the Creature

• Catharsis Factor: Seeing Gill Man escape and kill his tormentors. It's very satisfying after what they did to him.
• Funny Moments: There is one brief yet hilarious moment when the Creature strolls into a dance being held. One of the musicians is rocking out until he sees the Gill Man glaring at them all, at which point his eyes practically drop out of their sockets.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A couple of students have a conversation about how they have to go to college thanks to high school education being devalued since their parents were their age. Yes, that complaint was already a cliche 60 years ago. You could repeat this argument regarding college baccalaureates vs. graduate school degrees these days.
• Retroactive Recognition: You see that lab technician back there? Yeah, he went on to be one of the most well-known and influential filmmakers in Hollywood. At this point people mainly know this movie more for being one of Clint Eastwood's first movie roles than anything else-other than perhaps being mentioned in Back to the Future Part III which is brought up because of Clint Eastwood.
• Sequelitis: It's often seen as a decent film but not as good as the first.
• Squick: Helen refers to her dog as her boyfriend.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: The Gill Man. He goes on his rampage, but only after he was attacked in his home (where he wasn't even bothering anyone), chained up in an aquarium, and repeatedly shocked. It's been suggested the audience unexpectedly feeling sympathy for the Gill Man led to the sequel portraying him as a Non-Malicious Monster.
• Values Dissonance: The heroes try to test the recently captured Gill Man's memory and intelligence with various tests that involve jabbing it with a cattle prod when it is trying to eat. Any character who repeatedly tasered a captive animal like that today would be seen by many audience members as having crossed a Moral Event Horizon. While the movie does portray the Gill Man sympathetically, it also expects us to continue viewing the testers as "heroes." This was common practice in science labs until The '70s. The behaviorist model back then didn't even think animals felt pain.

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