Month: March 2013

Tony Stark after fighting the Hulk.

In 1991 some folks figured out that mummies are basically zombies. Inevitably the Italians made a mummy zombie movie, Burial Ground.That film is particularly beloved by Sandy Petersen, featuring characters who are jaw-droppingly stupid even for an Italian zombie movie, not to mention a very unseemly incest sub-plot involving a mother and her young…

CPR Class...of the Damned!!

The guy on the right is looking for some lozenges, presumably because the other fellow has a sour cough, I guess. Proof, anyway, that Jenson wasn't the only Babe to explore a mummy's tomb.

Well, I was never going to top last week, anyway.

I know I'm a bit of a crank on CGI, but crap, man, look at that!! A full sized prop octopus! That's the stuff, I'm telling you. (I'm not sure I've mentioned this, but I'm sort of partial to giant octopi in my movies.) Can you imagine how unwieldy that thing must have been?…

The fact that they built two practical versions of this monster--not to mention the diving bell--just makes my heart sing. And that first shot? Man, that's just gorgeous. And the *really* cool monster is tomorrow.

Kamoebas' English cousin, Nigel.

Meh, it's still less annoying than the one who is always humping your leg.

Damn, I miss the days when they made movies where one flick would cover an entire week of Monster of the Days. I *think* this is the same guy under different lighting; maybe it's a publicity still rather than an image from the movie? Either way, bless the men who actually constructed these fabulous…