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Earth vs. the Spider (1958) – Review

Posted on December 16, 2022December 14, 2022 by Mike Brooks

If you need a giant monster on a small budget look no further than B-movie master Bert I. Gordon, a man who brought colossal entertainment to the big screen on almost non-existent budgets, with such films as The Cyclops and Attack of the Puppet People, but with Earth vs. the Giant Spider he brought a…

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The Cyclops (1957) – Review

Posted on December 2, 2022December 1, 2022 by Mike Brooks

In Greek mythology the cyclops were known for creating Zeus’s thunderbolt, giving Odysseus a hard time and even helping overthrow the Titans, but the film we will be looking at today has absolutely nothing to those events or Greek mythology in general, instead, writer/producer/director Bert I. Gordon delivered a low-budget atomic age monster movie, making…

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Japanese Spider-Man (1978-1979) – Review

Posted on August 26, 2022August 25, 2022 by Mike Brooks

In the early days of adapting comic books into live-action television shows or feature films things like “character accuracy” were rarely a concern to the producers of such enterprises but in the late 70s Marvel made a licensing deal with the Toei Company that would take that concept to the next level and the result…

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Mysterious Island (1961) – Review

Posted on July 30, 2021July 28, 2022 by Mike Brooks

When it came to adapting fantastical pieces of literature into cinematic achievements the team of producer Charles Schneer and legendary visual effects man Ray Harryhausen had proven to be very successful and with their previous two collaborations, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and The 3 Worlds of Gulliver, having done rather well in the fantasy…

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Gamera: The Shōwa Period (1965–1980)

Posted on May 25, 2021December 25, 2024 by Mike Brooks

With the popularity of Toho’s Godzilla film series sweeping the country the people over at rival Daiei Films decided they could use some of that kaiju money for themselves and thus Gamera, the giant fire-eating turtle, was born.  Though many have described the Gamera films as simply rip-offs of the Godzilla franchise that is not…

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