How do you make a dinosaur movie in only seven days and with an almost non-existent budget? Well, the obvious answer is “Rush out and hire Bert I. Gordon to write, produce and direct the film” and don’t bother with such follow-up questions as “Will it be good or even make a dime?” because those…
Tag: monster movie
The Monolith Monsters (1957) – Review
When it comes to monsters Hollywood has churned out an endless variety of creatures to fill our nightmares, from vampires and werewolves to bug-eyed alien invaders from outer space and the gamut of beasties has been practically unending, but in 1957 Universal-International brought to the big screen something so staggeringly unbelievable in a film unparalleled…
The Angry Red Planet (1959) – Review
Since H.G. Wells penned the classic tale of the War of the Worlds back in 1897 the planet Mars has continually been seen as a threat to the planet Earth, either by launching invasions or attacking astronaut interlopers, and this idea had really come to the fore by the end of the 1950s with a…
The Crater Lake Monster (1977) – Review
The idea of a Loch Ness type monster inhabiting a lake in Northern California is certainly an interesting premise but an interesting premise will only get you so far and as often is the case it will at least require a modicum of a decent budget to correctly pull off but with The Crater Lake…
Q: The Winged Serpent (1982) – Review
Before Peter Jackson re-invented Middle Earth when it came to cinematic dragons the only ones that readily came to mind would have been such examples as the animated Disney classic Sleeping Beauty and that of the live-action Disney/Paramount fantasy epic Dragonslayer, which had Phil Tippet’s amazing go-motion technique to bring the dragon Vermithrax Pejorative to…