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Tag: Monster Movie

Prophecy (1979) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

This much-maligned but hugely enjoyable eco tract-cum-monster movie by John Frankenheimer is one of the most sublime junky pleasures...

The Lost Continent (1968) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Outlandish, lightning-paced, and genuinely hallucinogenic in its flow of bizarre behaviour, feverish plot development, and gaudy Eastmancolor-infused visuals, The...

Attack the Block (2011) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

A more timely film in late 2011 is hard than this enthusiastic paean to the untapped potential of miscreant...

The Trollenberg Terror (1958) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

aka The Crawling EyeAdapted from his own TV serial by famed Hammer horror scribe Jimmy Sangster, this is a...

King Kong (1976) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Whilst Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake of the classic Merian C. Cooper-Ernest B. Schoedsack film of 1933 had some major faults,...

Piranha (1978) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Joe Dante had cut together trailers for Roger Corman before he made his feature directorial debut with the in-joke...

Splice (2010) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Nominally a witty, unsettling, eccentric take on the mad scientist and monster movie, Splice finishes up being just as...

This Island Earth (1955) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Yes, it’s the film that inspired this blog’s title, so it’s about time I got around to reviewing This...

The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

The first Universal Frankenstein film not to feature Boris Karloff as the Monster was a test-case for fresh-minted genre...

Jaws 2 (1978) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Jaws 2 is the kind of film that faced an unenviable problem: how do you make a sequel to...

The Tingler (1959) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Possibly William Castle’s most famous and well-regarded film, at least from amongst the fruits of the heyday of his...

The Monster That Challenged the World (1957) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

A late entry in the ‘50s creature-feature stakes features a villainous species that reveals how exhausted the repertory of...