Swamp Thing is a 1982 horror film written and directed by Wes Craven. It tells the story of scientist Alec Holland who becomes transformed into the monster Swamp Thing through laboratory sabotage orchestrated by the evil Anton Arcane . Later, he helps out a woman named Alice and battles the man responsible for it all, the ruthless Arcane. The film was based on the DC Comics character of the same name by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. In the swamps of Louisiana, Dr. Alec Holland works with his sister Linda on a top-secret bio-engineering project to create a plant/human hybrid capable of... thriving in extreme environments. Government agent Alice Cable arrives just as Holland makes a major breakthrough, and begins to develop feelings for him. However, a paramilitary group led by the evil Dr. Arcane, who is obsessed with immortality, kills Linda while trying to steal the formula. Dr. Holland is covered in chemicals, caught on fire, and runs screaming in the swamp, presumably to die, but returns as a monstrously mutated plant creature.
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| Release date: | February 19, 1982 |
| Directed by: | Wes Craven |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 91 Minutes |
| Producer: | Michael Uslan, Benjamin Melniker |
| Editor: | Richard Bracken |
| Music by: | Harry Manfredini |
| Cinematography: | Robbie Greenberg |
| Screenplay by: | Wes Craven |
| Estimated budget: | $3,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Swamp Thing |
| Genre: | Science Fiction |