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How to Make a Monster (1958) – Review

Posted on November 15, 2022November 16, 2022 by Mike Brooks

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…

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I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957) – Review

Posted on November 11, 2022November 9, 2022 by Mike Brooks

When it came to making a follow-up to AIP’s box office hit I Was a Teenage Werewolf, the studio did something rather unusual, and a little gutsy, as they could have simply gone with an easy sequel and rolled out something like Return of the Teenage Werewolf, instead, they took a different monster from the…

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I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) – Review

Posted on November 8, 2022September 27, 2023 by Mike Brooks

What if James Dean’s character from Rebel Without a Cause had been bitten by a werewolf? That was the basic premise behind American International Pictures’ horror “gem” which kicked off a brief-lived series of “teenage monster” movies that would end with Herbert L. Strock’s How to Make a Monster, but the first in this brief…

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The Deadly Spawn (1983) – Review

Posted on October 25, 2022October 27, 2023 by Mike Brooks

If cinema has taught us anything it’s that meteors are nothing but trouble, they either wipe out cities ala Deep Impact or they’ll bring nasty alien creatures like The Blob to eat the locals, and today we will be looking at writer/director Douglas McKeown’s The Deadly Spawn, a film that falls in that second category…

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Beginning of the End (1957) – Review

Posted on October 14, 2022October 7, 2023 by Mike Brooks

How will our world come to its inevitable end? Will it be from an asteroid similar to the one that killed the dinosaurs? Could a manmade plague wipe out all of humanity? Or will our end come from gigantic rampaging mutant locusts? In 1957 Republic Pictures and producer/director Bert I. Gordon would bring to fruition…

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