by mike | Nov 25, 2021 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Uncategorized |
Happy Thanksgiving! Well, it was earth-shaking news six years ago, when the Tremors franchise added Tremors 5: Bloodlines. But since then, we’ve seen two more hit the (small) screen! I recently re-ran my posts on the sequels to Tremors, the classic comedy-horror flick...
by mike | Oct 4, 2021 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Okay, just to clarify, The Meg is a borderline Guilty Pleasure by virtue of its so-so reviews (one reviewer said, “…neither good enough, nor bad enough”), though it did do well at the box office, and a sequel is planned. Whatever; I would’ve enjoyed this creature...
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 | 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...
