The Creature Walks Among Us story
Following the Gill-man's escape from Ocean Harbor Oceanarium in Florida, a team of scientists led by the deranged and cold-hearted Dr. William Barton board the Vagabondia III to capture the creature in the Everglades.
9 total · 7 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with a failing marriage | major | William Barton and Marcia Barton were in a marriage that was falling apart. |
| cryptid | major | The Gill-man was assumed by scientists to be a member of a living fossil species that had become isolated in prehistoric times and stopped evolving. |
| human vs. beast | major | A team of scientists attempt to capture the Gill-man, which had recently escaped from an aquarium. |
| husband and wife | major | William Barton and Marcia Barton. |
| love triangle | major | Marcia Barton was married to William Barton but felt attracted to Thomas Morgan. |
| species transmutation | major | William Barton performed an operation that transformed the Gill-man from an aquatic animal to a land animal in an effort to validate a theory that land animals evolved from amphibians. |
| the human capacity for good and evil | major | Thomas Morgan concluded the film with explaining how we are neither too far from the jungle nor the stars and that the way we go depends on what we are willing to understand about ourselves as a species. |
| romantic infidelity | minor | William Barton questioned his wife Marcia Barton's commitment to their marriage and worried that she loved Thomas Morgan. |
| romantic jealousy | minor | William Barton was jealous of Marcia Barton over Thomas Morgan. |