When it came to made-for-television movies in the 70s the idea of sequels was not yet a big thing, they were mostly one-off events things for the major networks, but the success of the 1976 made-for-television movie The Savage Bees, prompted NBC to take another swing at the killer bee genre with an aptly titled…
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Empire of the Ants (1977) – Review
In what would be the fourth adaptation of an H.G. Wells story, having already made three films loosely based on the novel “Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth,” producer Bert I. Gordon would tackle the short story “Empire of the Ants” in another “In name only” adaptation, and that’s if we’re…
Earth vs. the Spider (1958) – Review
If you need a giant monster on a small budget look no further than B-movie master Bert I. Gordon, a man who brought colossal entertainment to the big screen on almost non-existent budgets, with such films as The Cyclops and Attack of the Puppet People, but with Earth vs. the Giant Spider he brought a…
War of the Colossal Beast (1958) – Review
Producer Bert I. Gordon was never one to let a good idea die – or a bad idea for that matter – so after the mild success of his film The Amazing Colossal Man it stood to reason that a sequel would be a foregone conclusion, of course, there was the small problem of the…
How to Make a Monster (1958) – Review
The idea of a horror movie sequel is certainly nothing new, the concept is pretty much as old as the genre itself, but with the film How to Make a Monster American International Pictures took it to a new level with what could be best described as a “Behind the Scenes” meta-monster-movie as it is…