Creature from the Black Lagoon

Creature From the Black Lagoon

Oh, what a difference a little color can make. The Blue Lagoon was home to Brooke Shields, while the Black Lagoon contained a creature with gills, webbed fingers, greenish flesh and a nasty habit of abducting toothsome women and dragging them to... more his underwater lair.

What's coolest about the creature, though, was that he was released in 3-D in 1954. That automatically makes the 2-D monsters green with envy. (Everett Collection)