Month: March 2023

Following The Amazing Colossal Man, Mr. BIG switched things up (sorta) by putting out a movie about smallified people rather than embiggoned ones. However, as this follows the path set down by Dr. Cyclops, it also features the doll-sized folk being menaced by a (comparatively) gigantic regular man and dog. Therefore, the difference is…

Back to Bert I Gordon tomorrow. Actually, I was planning to substitute Magic Sword for the Watch Party last Friday, in honor of Mr. Gordon. However, I checked the print on Amazon Prime and it was awful. So back to the long delayed Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf. And great timing, because…

Glenn Manning: The most relatable giant monster ever. The Amazing Colossal Man, the third Bert I Gordon movie to be released in 1957 (followed by three more in 1958), represents a, well, colossal leap forward quality-wise when compared to his earlier efforts King Dinosaur, The Cyclops and Beginning of the End. It’s certainly not…

Oops, posted this early. Oh, well. Bert I Gordon immediately followed up Beginning of the End with The Cyclops, which in retrospect looks like a run up for both The Amazing Colossal Man and, even more so, it's sequel. He also continued to work with solid, if often down on their luck, name actors…

For whatever reason (hopefully Tom Weaver or somebody had done a really good in-depth interview with Mr. Gordon), Bert I Gordon took a year or two off after releasing King Dinosaur. Maybe he just learned a bunch of lessons, as I don’t think he ever made anything quite that silly again. Which, admittedly, left…

Bert I Gordon (aka Mr. BIG) worked the giant monster genre like few others. Although some of his films have their good qualities, the fact is that many of them are poorly written and with substandard special effects. That said, and this must always be acknowledged, making films, especially back in the day and…

During the week I was laid low with bronchitis (I'll still have it for a while, but my energy levels are improving), two of the very last stalwarts of '50s monster movie cinema, Ricou Browning and Bert I. Gordon, passed away. Truly a bitter week for fans. Ricou Browning was one of two men--Ben…