Monster of the Day #3332

Updated on January 27, 2023 By Ken Begg 14 Comments

What a great title! It would be the perfect title for a Giallo. Ah, that’s the stuff. And it looks forward to nearly every man in every movie and TV show in the modern age.

Happy Friday, everyone! Watch something stupid. Watch Party next week.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    I think we’ve seen this one–I distinctly remember William Schallert and his gun made of butter. Maybe it was reused elsewhere?

  • Gamera977

    Yeah, this one and #3330 are repeats. No complaints from me, they’re both great covers!

    I think I made some comment about a two for the price of one corpse sale.

  • Gamera977

    I am thinking that in honor of the Chinese year of the bunny that I should watch ‘Night of the Lepus’ again.

    Then the part of my brain that’s still relatively sane tells me ‘Naw, it’s not worth the pain….’

  • Night of the Lepus is one of the greatest American Giant Monster movie to come out of the Seventies, if not the greatest. I’m being serious here. It holds together better than Giant Spider Invasion. It doesn’t have a cast of characters you want dead like Empire of the Ants. There’s no better version to be thinking about while watching like King Kong. You can also watch it with most of you’re sanity in check, unlike Godmonster of Indian Flats.

    About the only flick I can think of that might be better is Food of the Gods. I know, a lot of rats no doubt lost their lives making that film and there’s questionable leaps in logic. However I feel the story holds together fairly well and the acting can be called acting. Plus it has Pamela Franklin in it, and that trumps any other problem the movie has.

    Seriously. I can’t think of a Seventies movie out there that wouldn’t be improved with more Pamela Franklin.

  • kgb_san_diego

    I don’t think that this argument solidifies Night of the Lepus as a great giant monster movie. I think it underlines how AWFUL the 70’s were for such movies…

  • Oh, Night of the Lepus isn’t very good at all, I admit. But for the time period it’s about as good as it was getting. We’re not talking the Fifties or Sixties, where the Good Stuff was really pouring out.

  • zombiewhacker

    That’s amazing. I’m wracking my brain and can’t think of one good American giant monster movie that came out in the seventies. (Technically you could squeeze The Golden Voyage of Sinbad in there but I don’t think that’s what you quite meant.)

    Opinions as to what others think was the movie that ended the drought. What American movie in the 80s or 90s broke the string of bad giant monster movies?

  • “I’m winning the scavenger hunt if it kills me…or anyone else!”

  • You could make a good argument for Alligator. If not it, then Q.

    Thing is, Giant Monster movies dried up after the Seventies. It was like Westerns; Hollywood simply didn’t make them any more.

  • zombiewhacker

    That’s a good one right there. I forgot about Alligator.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    But you get to see both of the original Enterprise Chief Medical Officers riding in a helicopter together!

  • Gamera977

    Wouldn’t the ‘Alien’ Xenomorph count as a ’70s monster?

    And I’d say Bruce from ‘Jaws’. As Ken said it’s some question there in that great white sharks are real critters but I’d lean to him being a monster.

  • No. Alien can be considered a Monster Movie or a Slasher Movie, but not a Giant Monster Movie. The Xenomorph is too small to be Giant. The Xenomorph Queen in Aliens, maybe, but that’s neither here nor there.

    I hem and haw over Jaws being a Giant Monster movie. You could classify it as such, given our favorite fish’s size. However, Bruce is a natural beastie, and the others we’ve been talking about aren’t. I think that distinction is important enough to disqualify Jaws from Giant Monster. Monster movie, yeah, all day every day.

    Of course these are only my opinions. One day they may matter more; I’m still collecting the box tops for that particular prize.

  • Gamera977

    Ahhhh you did say GIANT. I don’t know what’s worse, my eyesight or my reading comprehension.