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PURCHASE THE DVD: Man-Thing (2005)

My complaints about this 2005 horror flick have more to do with authenticity than the actual quality of the movie. I grew up in Florida years ago. I've been to the Everglades many times before they ruined it, I know what a real Florida native accent sounds like, and I've met and known several Seminole Indians. Although this film based on a comic was set in the glades, it was shot in Australia, and you could tell.

They got the glades totally wrong. It was indeed a swamp before man's meddling turned it dry, but not like it was shown in the movies....this looked more like a Louisiana swamp whereas the glades was known as the "River of Grass". They made the Seminoles look like western Indians, which they do not, and the accent was some horrible imagined Southern accent which doesn't sound like any Florida native I know (and I know a lot).

As for the plot, it tells of men who are in the swamp drilling for oil being attacked by a mysterious swamp-monster. This guy is no Swamp Thing; he's mean and murderous and sucks the life out of anything he touches. The brand-new Sheriff must try to figure out who (or what) is doing the killing while constantly being badgered by the evil owner of the oil drilling company. One nice touch....the owner's name is Schist, which sounds very much like the German word for shit.

I've never read the comic, but putting aside my problems with authenticity, this is an enjoyable B monster movie, and not much more. It's fun for the most part, but you could almost write the script before you see the scene. Nothing new, nothing different, and definitely not authentic.