Monster of the Day #1905

Updated on April 1, 2019 By Ken Begg 23 Comments

Nice poster, although that monster is more Peter Cushing from Tales From the Crypt than The Fog. Also, the poster overstates Curtis’ importance, although you get why, commercially.

Five days until the spring T-Fest!

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    Very nice poster…though it also overstates John Houseman quite a bit…and really short-changes Hal Holbrook.

  • Gamera977

    Guys I just wanted to come by and say goodbye. From now on I’m going to spend my time watching only classic movies like ‘Citizen Kane’, ‘Gone With The Wind’, ‘The Sound of Music’ etc to deconstruct them to better understand critical theory and the West’s hetro-normalization of culture.

    Or maybe it’s just the date…..

    HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY!!!

    And I don’t remember a big honkin’ Thai croc in ‘The Fog’ Ken!

  • Eric Hinkle

    That’s one great poster. When did American movie posters all get so dull in comparison to masterpieces like this?

  • Ericb

    Same thing that killed the blockbuster, design by committee?

  • God, what a great flick. One of my all time favorite John Carpenter movies.

  • BGBear_rnh

    How dare you!

  • Rock Baker

    Part of the problem was in the move to using photography for poster art rather than actual art. It stymied creativity in advertising images.

  • Fomerly Known As Canadapygian

    I can’t recall anything about the film besides Jamie Lee Curtis in bed with some guy. I guess it will be like watching new film if I see again.

  • This movie scarred me for life as a kid. It might not be one of Carpenter’s best, but I love it all the same.

  • Rock Baker

    Said guy was Tom Atkins, minus his trademark mustache.

  • Rock Baker

    For what it’s worth, the same image of Curtis was also used for the rather moody VHS cover art, as well as some British posters.

  • Flangepart

    That’s a major ‘thing.’ There’s a feel you get with great poster art, that pics don’t match. It’s just the nature of the style of image, methinks.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Talking strange movies, has anyone here ever heard of the planned for but unmade 1956 Godzilla film ‘Bride of Godzilla’?

    It’s all listed on the ‘Gojipedia’ site but here’s a rundown on the plot:

    A mad scientist known as Dr. Shida builds a robot in the likeness of his wife. However, as Godzilla and Anguirus return, he also builds a giant feminine robot, “Robot Daughter,” in the image of his foster daughter to fight them. Adding to Dr. Kyohei Yamane’s thesis from the original Godzilla film
    where Dr. Yamane explains Godzilla went undetected for so long because
    he lived in trenches, Dr. Shida proposes that Godzilla and Anguirus
    lived so deep into ocean trenches that they come from the center of a
    hollow Earth.

    Inside the hollow Earth, Dr. Shida finds many Godzillas,
    Anguiruses, and a race of beautiful mermaids. He falls in love with one
    of the mermaids. During a fight between Godzilla and Anguirus, a giant
    blood-sucking flea is lodged from Anguirus’ shell. Then, Godzilla,
    Anguirus, a Giant Chameleon and a Giant Archaeopteryx appear in Kyushu.

    Robot Daughter is finished and is sent to defend Japan. She
    defeats the Giant Chameleon, the Giant Archaeopteryx, breaks Anguirus’
    jaw and then faces Godzilla. Robot Daughter is unaffected by Godzilla’s
    atomic breath. Godzilla seems to fall in love with Robot Daughter, and
    goes in a cave with the naked Robot Daughter. One character says “…it
    is the foreplay of love to be beaten.”

    Robot Daughter turns out to be a timed hydrogen bomb and takes
    Godzilla back to his ecosystem before exploding, destroying the
    ecosystem in the center of the Earth and presumably ending Godzilla.

    What do you think? Would this film have been worthy of Jabootu’s attention?

  • zombiewhacker

    The remake was infinitely superior.

    April fool!!!

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I remember it had lots and lots of atmosphere (no pun intended) and great music. Also some really great camera work that looked like Carpenter pulled it directly out of his head.

  • bgbear_rnh

    You had me going ;-)

  • Gamera977

    Oh I forgot Curtis was in this. Adrienne Barbeau kinda makes you forget about all the other women in the movies she’s in…

  • bgbear_rnh

    The have comparable assets for the fan servicing.

  • Eric Hinkle

    It’s a real thing. Toho seriously planned to make that. Go and look online and you’ll see.

    And it it any sillier than ‘Godzilla versus the Smog Monster’?

  • bgbear_rnh

    Sure, i am no April fool ;-)

    The girl as monster reminded me of Godzilla vs Biollante.

  • KeithB

    Weird, I just saw a Gomer Pyle episode and he talked about going to see a Godzilla movie. When his date said “Who is Godzilla?” He replied “Godzilla is a monster , like in Godzilla, Bride of Godzilla, Son of Godzilla…”

  • kgb_san_diego

    OT (but not very far…): Anyone watched any of the Ultraman anime on Netflix?

  • Gamera977

    BTW: Ken, if you ever need more MotD I sat down and watched all three recent Chinese ‘Monkey King’ movies. The first was pretty good and if you stretched it might have a week’s worth of MotDs. The second was really good, and had almost two weeks worth of monsters including a giant skelly made up of normal sized skellies that merged into the one kaiju sized one! The third was decent, not many monsters though, just a river god and two giant CGI scorpions. It did feature a tribe of Chinese amazons though.