Milicent Patrick News Today

To celebrate 70 years of 'Creature From The Black Lagoon', we look back at the eroticism of film between male, female, and Creature.

UCSC's Center of Monster Studies will once again be hosting its annual Festival of Monsters Oct. 13-15 to provide a closer look at the classic cultural monsters and prove that they are more than just Halloween decorations or seasonal cereal mascots.

(1) RIP MICHAEL TOMAN. South Pasadena librarian Michael Toman, who decided to become one of the rare people who pitch in every day with ideas for the Scroll, died earlier this week. How he will be missed! He was found dead at home on Saturday by a friend, writer William F. Wu, who checked after

On Saturday, July 1, the iconic “Gill-Man” as he is first called in a scene from the classic 1954 Universal Pictures monster movie “Creature from the

“You are one…beautiful motherfucker?”

The Mary Sues run down our favorite fantasy films.

The Wolf Man, The Mummy) would be incomplete without The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Yet very little has ever been mentioned of its creator, a woman named Milicent Patrick. For decades, credit for the creature had been attributed to the men who ran the make-up and special effects departments (something not uncommon in an age where the credits’ run time rarely eclipses a movie’s run time). Despite the discovery of an image showing a woman working on the creature, the consensus was that...