In 1998, director Renny Harlin helmed a fun little shark movie called Deep Blue Sea, where we learned from Ice Cube that his “hat is like a shark’s fin,” but then two decades later, we got the straight-to-video sequel Deep Blue Sea 2, which showed us that maybe a sequel about his hat would have…
Tag: monster movie
Tentacles (1977) – Review
Steven Spielberg’s summer blockbuster Jaws has spawned so many rip-offs that it has almost become a genre all its own — with Star Wars rip-offs being the only rival in sheer numbers — but today we will look back at one of the early rip-offs by those crazy Italians, a film called Tentacles.
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) – Review
The threat of nuclear annihilation during the Cold War may have been what kept people on edge during the 50s and 60s, with people building fallout shelters in their backyards, but without it, we wouldn’t have had so many fun atomic-fueled monster movies. One of the earliest examples of this would be the Ray Harryhausen…
The Blob (1958) – Review
The 1950s were certainly the glory days when it came to monster movies and science fiction — two great tastes that taste great together — and if atomic testing wasn’t awakening creatures like Godzilla and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, then mad scientists were creating Monsters on Campus and giant Tarantulas, but in 1958, a…
Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018) – Review
A horror movie set in an elite boarding school is certainly nothing new — Dario Argento’s Suspiria and its 2018 remake being primary examples of this — but taking that horror setting and then blending it with a comedy element is a nice little twist, and casting the likes of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost…