Someone who wanted to know more was Mallory O’Meara, lifelong horror fan and now a movie producer O’Meara had loved the Creature since her teens, and found out about Patrick’s part in bringing it to life, coming to see her as truly inspiring. Patrick’s vital role in designing an iconic monster was intentionally obscured for around half a century, due to one insecure man’s fragile porcelain ego, aided by the studio system’s – and society’s – inherent patriarchy.Īlthough Patrick was now finally being given her due credit for devising the Creature’s distinctive look, it appeared that she was still something of an enigma, with next to nothing seemingly being known about her life, other than her work on Creature From The Black Lagoon. Recently, the truth has emerged from the murky depths, and the name Milicent Patrick is now openly spoken of as being the Gill-Man’s true progenitor. However, for many decades the real identity of the designer who was responsible for coming up with the distinctive look of the Black Lagoon’s lonely denizen has been obscured, with all of the credit being directed elsewhere. The Creature even made an appearance at the 2019 confirmation hearing of one of Donald Trump’s nominees, in order to represent the metaphorical ‘swamp’ of Washington’s perceived political landscape. Both the name and the Creature itself have passed into popular culture, and provided the inspiration for Guillermo del Toro’s 2017 film The Shape Of Water. One of the pantheon of what was to later be described as the ‘Universal Classic Monsters’ was the Gill-Man, best known as the titular Creature From The Black Lagoon. READ MORE: The Lost Adventures of James Bond (Mark Edlitz) – Book Review Pierce also became associated with the distinctive look of the creatures as seen in Universal Pictures’ The Wolf Man and The Mummy.
When mentioning Frankenstein’s monster, the image most commonly associated with it is the one created by make-up artist Jack Pierce with Boris Karloff for 1931’s classic movie by British director James Whale. Thankfully, most people rightly see Mary Shelley as the true author of Frankenstein, with any arguments to the contrary being chiefly confined to the bickering of literary academics. For some people, its originator – Mary Shelley – is still not receiving due credit for her work , due to claims and arguments coming from various quarters over the extent to which Mary’s work may have seen some involvement on the part of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. In the summer of 1816, what began as a simple parlour game while holidaying close to Lake Geneva gave rise to one of the most enduring fictional creations of our age: Frankenstein’s monster.
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