With the amount of hype being generated by the production of Dino DeLaurentiis’s 1976 King Kong remake it wasn’t at all surprising that such films as A*P*E weren’t the only ones trying to cash in on the publicity, so a year later we got Shaw Brothers -the makers of the awesome Infra-Man – and their…
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King Kong (1933) – Review
During the 1930s, escapism from the realities of the Depression made movie-going more important than ever and in 1933 Merian C. Cooper gave the world just that with King Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World, a film that defined the term escapist entertainment.
Wolfen (1981) – Review
1981 was certainly the Year of the Wolf, we got John Landis’s amazing An American Werewolf in London and Joe Dante’s equally excellent The Howling, but there was a third wolf film out that year, one that many people have forgotten, a little flick called Wolfen.
El Monstro Del Mar! (2010) – Review
There have been some great horror films out of Australia in the last few years and so I went into El Monstro Del Mar! with some pretty good expectations sadly this film, while quite entertaining at times, fell a bit short by the end.
Croczilla (2012) aka Million Dollar Crocodile – Review
Stories of Man vs Nature have been around since the dawn of time, ever since man first painted images of themselves fighting sabre-toothed cats on the walls of caves, but modern audiences now seem to be inundated with movies where some type of giant beastie is out to get us, sadly very few of them…