When stop-motion effects artist Ray Harryhausen is attached to a film where the basic premise is “Cowboys vs Dinosaurs” one has to ask “What more could you possibly want?” The result of such a concept was the 1969 movie The Valley of Gwangi, a film based on a concept that Harryhausen’s mentor Willis O’Brien, the…
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Godzilla (1998) – Review
When it comes to Japanese exports there is no greater example than Godzilla and with over thirty Godzilla films and counting it’s a hard point to argue, but when it comes to Americanizing this iconic monster things haven’t gone all that well. Lately, we’ve been treated to Godzilla in the new Monsterverse that at least…
Them! (1954) – Review
“When Man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we’ll eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict” and it was these chilling words that closed out the 1954 classic science-fiction film Them! and set the tone for many such films to follow, a genre filled with nuclear-created…
Gorgo (1961) – Review
When one thinks of a giant reptile rampaging through a city the first that comes to mind is, of course, the King of the Monsters himself Godzilla, but he is far from the only such creature – he wasn’t even close to being the first – and today we will be looking at Gorgo, an…
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) – Review
The threat of nuclear annihilation during the Cold War may have been what kept people on edge during the 50s and 60s, with people building fallout shelters in their backyards, but without it, we wouldn’t have had so many fun atomic-fueled monster movies. One of the earliest examples of this would be the Ray Harryhausen…