I first stumbled across Swamp Thing as a kid when Wes Craven was given the reigns to direct the first swamp Thing films based on the DC Comics Graphic novel by Alan Moore. I was probably around six or seven years old when I first saw the film, and I loved every minute of it. As a child I was deathly afraid of horror films, but not Swamp Thing, because he was the good guy. To this day I don’t understand why people look at Swamp Thing as a horror film. I always saw it as an action sci-fi that was a bit graphic. I for one was a big fan of the film and it’ sequel, and even remembered some of the episodes on this DVD when they played on the USA channel when I was in High School.
For those of you who never heard of Swamp Thing or are too young to know about the films and the television show. Swamp Thing is about a doctor named Alec Holland a man whom while working on experiments in the Louisiana swamps was subject to a horrible disaster when his lab blew up. Alec was blown into the near by swamp which was polluted with the chemicals from his lab. Alec transforms into the Swamp Thing. Now a result of his own experiments, Alec vows to live in the swamp and stop anyone who wants to destroy the swamp and the creatures that live in it.
The series had a good run on Television and produced a total of seventy two episodes. This disc set contains twenty two episodes of the first season and all of them are actually pretty good. I really like how well they are produced for the time and how there is a wide variety of characters in each episodes and villains and friends of Swamp Thing that have suffered the same fate and have been transformed into something else. The overall acting and scripts for the show are not the best, but there not half bad either. The production value however is almost as good as the movies, which is a huge plus.
Overall, I know this review is short but it’s hard to write a complete episode to episode review of this television series on DVD. The DVD includes all 22 episodes of the first season in the order in which they were meant to be seen, and has some bonus features which include interviews with Swamp Thing Co-creator Len Wein and actor Dick Durock. If you were fan of the television series in the nineties or a fan of the films, you must go out and get yourself a copy of this series when it hits DVD on January 22nd on DVD. Well worth the money and the time.
– Horror Bob
- Interview with J.R. Bookwalter - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Andrew J. Rausch - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Rick Popko and Dan West - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Director Stevan Mena (Malevolence) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Screenwriter Jeffery Reddick (Day of the Dead 2007) - January 22, 2015
- Teleconference interview with Mick Garris (Masters of Horror) - January 22, 2015
- A Day at the Morgue with Corri English (Unrest) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Writer/Director Nacho Cerda (The Abandoned, Aftermath) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Actress Thora Birch (Dark Corners, The Hole, American Beauty) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Actor Jason Behr, Plus Skinwalkers Press Coverage - January 22, 2015
