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 I’ve …
Monster Movie
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 Lost …
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 British …
The Trollenberg Terror (1958) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
aka The Crawling Eye Adapted 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, it …
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 film …
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 an …
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 Island …
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 hero …
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 a …
