In the history of cinema there have been quite a few “less-than-impressive” monsters to grace the big screen, from the lumbering tree monster in From Hell It Came to the giant locusts in The Beginning of the End, but in 1957 producer Sam Katzman topped them all with his offering of The Giant Claw, a…
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The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) – Review
Despite being shot to death at the end of both previous instalments the Gill-man is back for this third and final entry in the Creature from the Black Lagoon Trilogy, where they bring the creature out of the “Rampaging Monster” category, where he’d found himself trapped in for Revenge of the Creature, and now he’s…
This Island Earth (1955) – Review
Aliens visiting Earth are rarely depicted as your typical friendly neighbours, for every E.T. the Extraterrestrial there are at least a dozen of the nasty Predators variety, but in 1955 we were treated to a group of aliens whose time on our Blue Planet was of a more complicated nature as it had a hidden…