Month: May 2022

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I mentioned Paper Finz last week (the YouTube Channel that did on the video on Anguirus' split shell). He has many other giant monster videos, and Gamera (our Gamera) suggested the ones on goofy or, in this case, just neato foreign Godzilla and Gamera posters. So those are pretty great, and let's do some…

Kind of redundant, but here's a better look at the split shell I mentioned earlier this week. Weird, and I don't think anyone's still around to explain what they were going for with this. Apparently it was dropped because the split was unwieldy during filming, and so they just threw up their hands and…

Was I ever aware of this? If I was, I had completely forgotten until I came across a YouTube video called "The Mystery Behind the Split Anguirus Shell" on the Paper Finz channel. He has a lot of other Godzilla content too. Anyway, it was pretty fascinating, largely because it was a fresh thing…

Continuing our line of "monsters in posters who look like hobos" we have Return of the Ape Man. Apparently Monogram was too cheap to pay somebody to paint a poster, probably because they spent an extra $500 to get both Bela Lugosi and John Carradine (famously, Zucco is not really seen in the film).…

A rather bland poster for a rather bland film. At least they have an excuse; it's a Republic picture, not from 20th Century Fox. I guess it's kind of interesting that they highlight the exotic elements of the film, which (if I can remember waaaaaaaaaay back when) takes place in Africa, presumably to save…

  Here's 20th Century Fox marketing team trying a little harder, although their wolf man just looks like a hobo. I mean, pretty much literally. Meanwhile, the studio was so sniffy about making an actual monster movie that we only get about 20 seconds of the werewolf right at the very end of the…

Here's a great example of how the major studios occasionally tried to grab some of Universal's extremely profitable horror pie, but were too embarrassed and sniffy to really go for it. First, most of their horror movies, like this one, were themselves tepid at best. They really felt monsters in particular were just beneath…