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…
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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…
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) – Review
With director Michael Dougherty helming this latest installment in the Legendary MonsterVerse, we enter an era where Hollywood is finally giving the Japanese a run for their money when it comes to kaiju films, with both 2014’s Godzilla and 2017’s Kong: Skull Island being excellent entries in the giant monsters genre, and now with Godzilla: King…
Cold Skin (2017) – Review
A major question that has been raised in many a horror and science fiction stories is, “Who exactly are the monsters?” Now, going by such works as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Rod Serling’s The Monsters are Due on Maple Street, it’s pretty clear that mankind are the true monsters here — there being enough war…
Deep Rising (1998) – Review
Blending horror and comedy has always been a tricky thing – too often the comedy can undercut the horror – but in 1998, writer/director Stephen Sommers released Deep Rising, which was not only a horror/comedy but an action movie as well. Added to the mix was a monster that would be 95% CGI – at…