It’s no surprise that a character as gothic as the early Batman had gothic adventures. Indeed, just two issues after his debut in Detective Comics #27, Batman was facing a bonafide vampire…. Read Article →

Hey, it worked in Die Monster Die!* [Note: It didn’t work in Die Monster Die!]

Boy, when she said she had to put on her face…. Currently sitting at number five on the Movies Sandy Petersen Might Like list.

Man, that’s some high level effects work there.

Ah, Zombies, the low-budget producers favorite monsters. (Hell, Sam Katzman made several zombie movies back in the ’50s.)

Ah, the ’70s, when you made your low-budget Euro zombie film and it still made sense to hire a bunch of over the hill ‘name’ actors to star in it. Still, John… Read Article →

Meh. Nobody’s best work here, I think. Still, these suits you had to kneel in all the time must have been quite a pain.

Seriously, this guy played nearly *everybody*. I wonder how long it would take to watch all his kaiju films. At least a couple of weeks, surely, even if you loaded up on… Read Article →

Nakajimi brought a ton of other kaiju to life, of course, including this favorite. Now that CGI reigns supreme, we’ll truly never see his life again.

Literally a giant in his field. Along with Honda, Ifubuke and Tsuburaya, this gentleman influenced my life more than I’ll ever really understand. RIP.