If a bunch of white jerks invading your home and riddling you with bullets isn’t enough to warrant revenge then I don’t know what it is. That is the basic premise of Universal’s Revenge of the Creature, which is the second entry of The Creature from the Black Lagoon Trilogy where once again a group…
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Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) – Review
The idea group of explorers entering a strange land only to discover that it’s inhabited by some sort of monster is as old as the genre itself, with RKO’s 1933 classic King Kong being the standard-bearer for such a story, but in 1954 Universal Pictures decided to add a final star in their line-up of…
Tarantula (1955) – Review
When it wasn’t atomic bombs creating giant monsters in the 1950s, it was your garden variety mad scientist, tinkering away in his beaker-filled lab, spilling behemoth creatures all over the landscape, and one of the most memorable examples of this is the 1955 creature feature Tarantula. Produced and directed by the legendary filmmaker Jack Arnold, Tarantula…
Monster on the Campus (1958) – Review
In the 50s, atomic monsters or alien invaders were all the rage – from giant tarantulas to flying saucers – but despite their inability to destroy buildings, one other science fiction staple overshadowed them all, and that would be that of the mad scientist. In fact, many of the atomic monster that rampaged across America…
It Came From Outer Space (1953) – Review
The motive behind aliens visiting the Earth in movies varies from the benevolent and often misunderstood aliens, to the outright malevolent creatures with the destruction of mankind on their evil little minds, and in 1953 Universal released their first 3D picture with extra-terrestrial beings that kind of fell in the middle of that spectrum as…