by mike | Sep 7, 2020 | Creature Features, Disaster Movies, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
The 2019 creature feature/disaster flick, Crawl, is an anomaly. It did well at the box office, which is not that odd for the genre. But it also garnered its share of excellent reviews, compiling 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, and that doesn’t usually happen for creature...
by mike | Jun 15, 2020 | Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Until recently I had not watched the excellent 1986 remake of The Fly in many years. This is my excuse for forgetting that I should not have viewed the film so close to dinnertime. Appetite gone! Indeed, by virtue of its Academy Award-winning makeup effects, as well...
by mike | May 18, 2020 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Movies, Myths & Legends, Uncategorized |
Okay, I’m embellishing here. But in the 2009 creature feature, Wyvern, a mythical dragon chows down on the quirky residents of a small town in northern Alaska in order to feed itself, as well as to bring some tasty morsels to its soon-to-be-hatched young. I suppose...
by mike | Apr 6, 2020 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Western Movies |
Well, not exactly, but we do have Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford co-starring in the 2011 sci-fi/western film, Cowboys & Aliens. With that kind of star power, and some decent reviews, you’d think this movie was a blockbuster hit, but not so fast. It did poorly at...
by mike | Jan 27, 2020 | Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
I happened to be drinking coffee last week as I read some film teasers on Amazon Prime. The coffee wound up shooting out of my nose after reading one teaser in particular. It will be the first one on the following list. (Don’t be drinking anything.) A few others will...
by mike | Jan 2, 2020 | Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Starting off the New Year with one of my favorite genres: monster movies. This post first appeared in 2016. I’m a sucker for “creature features” and I always keep an eye out (ouch!) for ones that I might’ve missed. When Netflix recommended Rogue, a 2007 indy thriller...
