If anyone saves Wes Craven's outrageously campy adaptation of the comic-book monster hero... it's Adrienne Barbeau.

It's a commando-style action adventure. But its idea of excitement a to be Adrienne Barbeau continually shouting for help while the Swamp Thing slowly turns 90 degrees to catch her direction.

Swamp Thing has many dubious qualities, but it clearly isn't a piece of product tested and polished to a blinding gleam, and the world is duller for not letting oddball efforts like this slip into theaters once in a while.

Swamp Thing is Wes Craven’s love letter to the classic rubber-suit monster movies in the form of a campy and colorful superhero movie.