Monster of the Day #1990

Updated on August 26, 2019 By Ken Begg 7 Comments

This was a no-brainer. 1990 wasn’t a great year for horror/monster movies, but we did get this classic. Hard to believe that it (and Darkman) are nearly 30 years old now. Even none of the sequels or TV show embarrass themselves, although as the beasties got more evolved (and CG) I tended to find them less interesting. Great cast, although I’ll always be a Fred Ward guy. I can’t wait to see The Right Stuff on a big screen again, as my friend Matt is showing it in November at the Pickwick.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    Yeah, this was a really good one.

  • Gamera977

    Graboid: Kevin Bacon tastes like…. chicken!!!

    Good movie and I loved Fred Ward as Gus Grissom in ‘The Right Stuff’!

    Henry Luce: Now, I want them all to meet my people who will write their true stories, Naturally these stories will appear in Life magazine under their own bylines: For example, “by Betty Grissom”, or “by Virgil I. Grisson”, or…

    Gus Grissom: Gus!

    Henry Luce: What was that?

    Gus Grissom: Gus. Nobody calls me by… that other name.

    Henry Luce: Gus? An astronaut named “Gus”? What’s your middle name?

    Gus Grissom: Ivan.

    Henry Luce: Ivan… ahem… well. Maybe, Gus isn’t so bad, might be something there… All right, all right. You can be Gus.

  • Damn fine flick.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    “You mean Kevin Bacon doesn’t taste like…bacon? That’s false advertising!”

  • The Rev.

    This just might be my favorite non-kaiju monster movie. It’s just so perfect in so many ways: the characters, the dialogue, the acting, the monsters, the comedy, the scares, the cinematography, the effects…okay, not counting The Shot…

    I would guess I’ve seen this movie more times than anything outside of Jaws and a few of the Godzilla movies. I have only seen the first sequel, though (and a couple of episodes of the series). If they still manage to hold up okay, I may have to make a point of getting around to them (I wasn’t aware until very recently that they’d gone past three sequels).

  • Mike Weller

    I love these flicks…well, the first three. The humans are worth caring about, so when they defeat the monsters, it’s way cool. Working out solutions to the problems (Burt- you don’t have a gun Deal with it!) is part of the fun with this series.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Still the best 50’s monster movie the 90’s ever made.