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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Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) – Review
In the atomic age of giant monsters, Attack of the Crab Monsters proves that not all crustaceans are just shells and pincers – some have a wicked sense of humour too! This is a key ingredient if you’re going to make a monster movie on the cheap, and when it comes to cheap there is…
Bug (1975) – Review
The “Nature Attacks” genre exploded in the 1970s but to a widely varying quality, from Spielberg’s masterpiece Jaws to such offerings as Kingdom of the Spiders we’ve had quite the spectrum, but as in the latter example the killer insect was clearly dominant – the killer bee almost became its own genre – and today…
The Thing from Another World (1951) – Review
With the arrival of the 1950s the horror genre was slowly moving out of Gothic castles and beaker-strewn laboratories into the wider world of the atomic age, and with that came irradiated monsters and visitors from outer space. Launching this cinematic change was the Howard Hawks film The Thing from Another World, an entry that…
The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959) – Review
What would a version of The Creature from the Black Lagoon look like if the filmmakers had no money? It was the lack of proper funds that faced producer Jack Kevan and director Irvin Berwick back in 1959 when they made their independently produced creature feature, one that showcased a monster of a rather dubious…