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I’m showing my age a little with this one. When I was in grade school, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was a constant presence in...
The Thing is the first of John Carpenter’s “Apocalypse Trilogy”, and one of my favorite nihilistic films. The suspense and tension is palpable and...
Holy Cats, I love this movie. It’s a classic in every sense off the word and can still be watched with un-ironic enjoyment. It’s...
Macross is a weird series, even for an anime. Almost 30 years old, its themes are still unique in the giant robot/space opera genre. ...
In a prior article, I mentioned how spoiler-ridden any discussion of that show’s ‘monsters’ would be. This continues that trend. Though each Witch is...
Warning: This post contains extreme spoilers for Puella Magi Madoka Magica. If you want to see it without knowing some key plot twists, then...
Sometimes, a movie has a monster that’s biological identification is just so goofy that they either have to embrace it or hide it as...
People have been seeing weird things in the skies since we first started looking up. We identified a lot of them, naming planets, stars,...
Gorgo is probably the best movie ever to appear on Mystery Science Theater 3000. It’s still fun to poke at its various moments of...
Godzilla. King of the Monsters. The name itself transcends the globe like so few movie made monsters can. So much has been said about...
Rodan was the first giant monster movie Toho did in color and it is something to behold. Both the original Japanese version and the...
Toho Studios has produced a LOT of giant monsters over the years, many of them easily recognizable by name alone: Godzilla, Rodan, Ghidorah –but...
Of all the Jaws knockoffs, from Blood Beach to Orca to pretty much any of Jaws Sequels, one of the best is Alligator. It...
Yup, Avengers are everywhere and cover just about every archetype super hero comics have thrown at us. But the Hulk really didn’t start as...
Before it fades into the background of popular culture, let’s get one last dig at the Twilight “Saga” before the last film comes out...
Everyone knows what a troll is, but at the same time, no one can describe the “Average” troll. The term has become so muddled...
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is one of the most iconic films from the special effects career of Ray Harryhausen. It’s an iconic monster...
The minute the monstrous beasts in the trailer for the film Attack the Block opened their jaws, revealing their neon green, glowing teeth surrounded...
Before there was The X-Files, there was Kolchak: the Night Stalker. Most of his cases saw the intrepid reporter, Carl Kolchak, battling vampires, monsters...
Hyenas get a bad rap. A really bad rap. They’re looked at as thieves, scavengers and parasites. Right next to Vultures, they’re the lawyers...
In the 60s, there were a lot of monsters following in Godzilla’s footsteps. Each nation wanted its own Kaiju: Korea created Yongary; England created...
Japan has a long tradition of monsters and continues to produce them like an assembly line of fear. From Godzilla to Putties, these monsters...
Skeptics get a bad reputation in movies. They keep being portrayed as people who are stone set in their beliefs regarding the absence of...
Sometimes, monstrous creatures appear in the oddest of places. Disney/Pixar’s Up being one such example. The mysterious animal fits in well with the monsters...