Swamp Thing 1982

Vincent Canby, New York Times: [The film] wants desperately to be funny and, from time to time, it is. However, you might wish it would trust the audience to discover the humor for itself. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: The film is too lazy to provide any actual jokes with its send-up of the genre. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: One of those movies that fall somewhere between buried treasures and guilty pleasures. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Craven tries to do this 'veggie-man' horror in a suitable DC Comics style; and with Louis Jourdan as arch-villain 'Arcane', not to mention Adrienne Barbeau (Mrs John Carpenter) as the Thing's object of desire, he's definitely on the right track. Read more

Variety: Short on thrills and laughs. Read more