Posts by Ken Begg

This hit a LOT of sweet spots for me; '40s noir detective films, Fred Wards, horror, magic, Lovecraft, MR James.... It was the first HBO film to have a sequel. They replaced Fred Ward with Dennis Hopper.

By sheer coincidence, there was a TV mini-series shortly after The Hidden, featuring a tough cop on a weird murder case who is annoying joined by a quirky person who seems to know too much, and proves to be a friendly alien hunting down an evil alien who hides in people's bodies. The friendly…

Sorry about yesterday, I had Imgur issues and had to hurry to work and then got tied up last night. I hope everyone had a good weekend. Here's an additional pic. I figured I couldn't really see the solo beastie as a separate monster, so here's a better look.

OK, this is a full-fledged Eerie Publications cover, filled with monsters and gore and pulchritude. The sexy girl was usually a vampire (most often being staked), instead of a "Frankenstein," but otherwise this is fairly representational. Interested parties are pointed to The Weird World of Eerie Publications, a history of the publisher and the…

This is actually a fairly sedate cover for an Eerie Publications, if only because there also wasn't a hunchback, witch and (what I'm sure they'd call) a Frankenstein on it too. Still, monsters killing monsters, and buxom vampires being stakes, were pretty much a staple.

OK, trying to remember if I'd posted pictures was driving me nuts. I really have to make a list, I shouldn't have waited until I'd done 1300 MotDs though. Let's shift to the hilariously awful world of Eerie Publishing, whose poorly written black and white gore-drenched magazines (popped-out eyes lying on cheeks was an…

I can't believe I've never featured these guys, but better safe than sorry.

OK, this week I'm going to burn off miscellanious monsters I've had cluttering up my backlog forever. Possibly some will be repeats if I didn't mark them posted, but I hope not. Anyway, have a great week, everyone.

  Now we're talking. This is clearly the giant octopus from King Kong vs. Godzilla. Well, octopi, since we also get live octopus footage that I assume was from that same film. Still, you can't go wrong warming Ken's heart with an old-school giant octopus. That last shot is typical of the show's damn…

Meh. I understand that it makes economic sense to go the Glenn Manning route, especially if you plow the money saved into the other monsters. However, the show had already done 'giant' people in a far wittier fashion earlier one. This is a decent enough episode--I don't know if Ultra Q ever had a…