Monster of the Day #1879

Updated on January 23, 2019 By Ken Begg 17 Comments

B-Fest 2019 is in the books, everyone is safely back home, and it’s now time to (ugh) start the arduous task of catching up at work. The Fest started out well, although there was much discontent over the deaths of much of the film’s rodent cast. I have to admit, however, that this Brit poster for the movie tickles me greatly.

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  • KeithB

    I am trying to make a joke about the fact that the Chinese eat fried chicken feet, but I got nuthin.

  • I was trying to come up with something tasteful about a really big….er, rooster…..

  • Given that the giant rubber rooster is the best thing in the movie, I think the poster is pretty true to the spirit of the thing.

  • KeithB

    I wonder if you get to see the movie before you make the poster?

  • Gamera977

    ‘Eat more Marjoe Gortner!’

  • Gamera977

    I’m certain Mr. Wells would have been so proud to see his name affixed so blatantly to this um… so faithful portrayal of his story…

  • Rock Baker

    “there was much discontent over the deaths of much of the film’s rodent cast.” Huh? They’re rats. The fewer of them the better.

  • Rock Baker

    For what it’s worth, it’s a more faithful adaptation than VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS, Mr. Gordon’s first film based on the material.

  • Rock Baker

    In most cases, no. AIP was famous for commissioning the poster art before the production even began. In cases like this example, the guy making up the poster was presented with stills and notes on whatever elements he was to include. This poster, of course, is British. The US art had a woman being held by a giant rat in a tree. While the movie was only so so, the American poster art was pretty nice.

  • This was at B-fest? Man, I KNEW I should have gone this year! Best Giant Monster movie out of the Seventies that didn’t star Godzilla or King Kong. And it had Pamela Franklin in it! Glorious!

  • KeithB

    Wikipedia has the American poster.

  • There’s a certain unnerving power to the American poster in its construction (though something’s off about the victim’s and rat’s placement on the branch.) A movie that backed up that image would be a film to see.

  • Eric Hinkle

    H.G. “Whirling” Wells must have hit 3200 RPM when those words appeared on the screen in ‘Giants’.

  • Rodford Smith

    Dibs on a drumstick!

  • The Rev.

    No one needs to be shooting or drowning any live animals for “entertainment.” That’s all I’m going to say about it.

    I will note that not one single person in the B-Fest crowd was happy about it, to their eternal credit.

  • Eric Hinkle

    One drumstick from him and you’ll never need to eat another one.

  • Flangepart

    E-yeah…so many straight lines, so much to edit…