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[R.I.P.] ‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’ Star Julie Adams Has Died
Another legendary horror actor has left us, as it’s being reported tonight that Julie Adams has passed away at the age of 92. Adams is most known for her role as the leading lady of Universal’s Creature from the Black Lagoon, wherein she played scientist Kay Lawrence. Her character, of course, was the love interest of the titular Creature in the 1954 film.
Born Betty May Adams on October 17, 1926, Julie Adams began her big screen career with 1949’s Red, Hot and Blue, and she starred in a handful of Westerns before Universal cast her in Creature from the Black Lagoon, including The Dalton Gang, Crooked River, The Treasure of the Lost Canyon, The Mississippi Gambler and The Man from the Alamo.
After being forever immortalized as an iconic “scream queen” thanks to Creature from the Black Lagoon, Julie Adams starred in The Private War of Major Benson, Tickle Me, “The Jimmy Stewart Show,” “Code Red,” “Murder, She Wrote,” and more recently, World Trade Center and “Lost,” among nearly 150 other roles across film and television.
News of Adams’ passing tonight comes from Creature co-star Ricou Browning.
While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.
This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.
You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!
In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?
“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.
“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”
Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.
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