Monster of the Day #3148
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Monster of the Day #3148

First of all, great poster. I love that style. Second of all, and I'm serious here, is this poster gay-baiting? I mean, given the film's tagline (on the poster), the expressions on their faces, etc.  Of course, Dracula's Daughter was the first movie to really bring that issue to the forefront.
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Monster of the Day #3147
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Monster of the Day #3147

For an absolutely gooftacular monster, basically a dimestore (dollar store now, I guess) version of Manda, Reptilicus has sure gotten a lot of play. Barring a remake (which could NEVER recapture the charm of the original), just about everything that it could inspire has come to pass: First, there are two versions of the…
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Monster of the Day #3146
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Monster of the Day #3146

So I've been reading Anders Runestad's I Cannot, Yet I Must: The True Story of the Best Bad Movie of All Time Robot Monster. I put off buying it for a long time, because the paperback is about $30, and the Kindle edition was about $12. However, it lurked on my Amazon Wish List…
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Monster of the Day #3145
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Monster of the Day #3145

Chad R said something that really resonated with me at the last T-Fest. He said when he looked at monster films to watch on Amazon Prime the first thing he did was check when it was made. If it was made after the '90s, it was skippable, since the vast majority of those are…
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Monster of the Day #3144
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Monster of the Day #3144

Coincidentally, I got an email from Amok Time toys that featured...this. Needless to say, I had to post it. If anyone actually wants one, they are check out the Amok Time website. What a world. (There's also a glow in the dark one on Amazon, but it's like $70.)
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Monster of the Day #3143

Sorry, I couldn't get the thumbnail to load.   Back to Weird Tales. As the magazine flourished, it still jumped around a lot regarding cover subjects. While imperiled, half-dressed women were basically a mainstay by the 1930s (it's hard to casually track the issue numbers, since the magazine didn't use them, and often didn't…
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Monster of the Day #3142
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Monster of the Day #3142

Apparently I haven't actually seen this since I was a kid. I watched it on Amazon this weekend and I was shocked that the entire film was in color. Admittedly it was made in 1959, but still. Otherwise it's a really standard space adventure, with the standard crew (the tough and horny commander, the…
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Monster of the Day #3141
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Monster of the Day #3141

Yesterday I was talking about mainstream comical movies of the 80s that had monsters in them as a minor feature. That includes My Science Project, a Ghostbuster-ish, largely forgotten flick about a (of course) high school student who makes a not exactly perfected time machine. At one point, it brings a T-Rex to his…
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Monster of the Day #3140
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Monster of the Day #3140

I've always been vaguely interested in mainstream movies from the '80s and early '90s that you forget/didn't know had monsters in them for no real reason. Like, oh, The Coneheads, or Howard the Duck. I was watching YouTube yesterday and saw a clip from Weird Science, the John Hughes movie where geeks Anthony Michael…
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Monster of the Day #3139
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Monster of the Day #3139

Yesterday we talked about Nezura, the aborted giant rat movie that inadvertently led to the creation of Gamera. We've also touched before on Nessie, the aborted Dai Kaiju film that would have coproduced by Hammer Studios and Toho. The idea isn't as crazy as it sounds, given that Toho Toei (thanks for the correction,…
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