Year: 2016

  Now we're talking. This is clearly the giant octopus from King Kong vs. Godzilla. Well, octopi, since we also get live octopus footage that I assume was from that same film. Still, you can't go wrong warming Ken's heart with an old-school giant octopus. That last shot is typical of the show's damn…

Meh. I understand that it makes economic sense to go the Glenn Manning route, especially if you plow the money saved into the other monsters. However, the show had already done 'giant' people in a far wittier fashion earlier one. This is a decent enough episode--I don't know if Ultra Q ever had a…

Although it murders hundreds, this is the cutest monster ever. It even makes a little squeeky noise. It's painful to watch it killed.

This is one of Ultra Q's comparatively rare non-giant monsters. I kind of like how they mixed it up, though. That jaw was used on several other suits. It's a lady monster, although surely an American show surely would have picked a more overly womanly actress to, er, fill out the role.

This monsters seems like something you'd see on The Outer Limit. It starts out human-sized, then is shot down by the Japanese police (with their dinky pistols, too). At this point, surprise, it becomes a giant. Because, you know, Japan.

Wow, where does this guy get his ideas?

It was a shock to realize that I'd already run out of B-Fest monsters. There was such a generally pleasing spread of films (albeit including a potentially troubling increase in mainstream non-genre movies, which does threaten to redefine what the Fest is) that monsters were surprisingly sparse on the ground. After Adventures of Hercules,…

  This year B-Fest itself basically went down very smooth. There was only one great film (an old friend), but barring just a few movies, pretty much everything was solid and there was good variety. This was the second of Lou Ferrigno's two Hercules movies, and pretty light on monsters. Basically, the producers had…

Sorry, everyone. I've been spending my time waiting until the very last second to get my house minimally ready for my B-Fest guests tomorrow. I suck. Anyway, this seems like a good change to give Mitch O'Connell's even more awesome than usual poster for this year an official spot as MotD.

  It's scarier than Night of the Lepus, anyway.