by mike | Dec 12, 2024 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
I have no idea what the producers were thinking when they made this underwater dud. This post first ran in 2021. Like so many sequels before it, did the direct-to-video Deep Blue Sea 2 really need to be made? As a big fan of its predecessor, Deep Blue Sea, I of course...
by mike | Nov 25, 2024 | Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
The turkey I’m going to address—a weird film titled Mimic 2—has nothing to do with the turkey you’ll doubtless be partaking of later this week. This being Thanksgiving week, it seems appropriate to write about a turkey of a movie. I’m talking about Mimic 2, the 2001...
by mike | Nov 14, 2024 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
The sequel to The Meg, alluded to in this post, was a disappointment, like so many sequels. I first presented this post in 2021. Okay, just to clarify, The Meg is a borderline Guilty Pleasure by virtue of its so-so reviews (one reviewer said, “…neither good enough, or...
by mike | Nov 7, 2024 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Uncategorized |
Are they going to make an eighth Tremors movie? Who knows? This post first ran in 2021. That title is a double entendre, don’t you know? In the first place, the giant worm-things known as graboids are back on the small screen in Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020), the...
by mike | Feb 26, 2024 | Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Of the all the numerous 1950s sci-fi/horror/“big bug” movies, Tarantula (1955) stands out as one of the best. Its director, Jack Arnold, was among the leading filmmakers of the era, with hits such as It Came from Outer Space (1953), Creature from the Black Lagoon...
by mike | Jan 18, 2024 | Creature Features, Disaster Movies, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
A creature feature that the critics liked? How rare. This post first ran in 2020. 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,...