by mike | Sep 27, 2021 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Uncategorized |
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 seventh film in the long-running Tremors franchise. And second, when a graboid dies a...
by mike | Jul 1, 2021 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Museums, Myths & Legends, Uncategorized |
Loved the book, loved the movie. I first presented this post in 2017. This 1997 horror film is based on the best-selling book, Relic, by popular authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Fans of these two know that this novel marks the initial appearance of the...
by mike | Jun 3, 2021 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Uncategorized |
Who else—or WHAT else—roams the underground of Manhattan? This post first ran in 2017. When I wrote about the late John Heard last week I mentioned that one of his earliest screen roles was in the 1984 horror movie, C.H.U.D. I would’ve eventually written about this...
by mike | May 13, 2021 | Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Monsters, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Long before the Great White Shark kept us out of the water, there was the Gill-Man. I first presented this post in 2017. The science fiction and horror movies of the 1950s more than sufficed to scare the crap out of an impressionable kid like me. Foremost among them...
by mike | Apr 29, 2021 | Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Psychological Thrillers, Uncategorized |
This post, about a gripping film that depicts both a real and a metaphorical MONSTER, first ran in 2017. Yes, there is an actual monster in the gripping 2016 horror film, The Monster, the kind you once thought hid under your bed, or in your closet. But there is also a...
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...
