I remember this one! This was the Christmas novelette where The Spider saved Santa Claus after Pitch invaded his gold and crystal palace in outer space. The Devil’s big mistake was interrupting… Read Article →

Back to pulp covers tomorrow. When I returned to work yesterday, I had forgotten that I had bought a ticket for last night to finally see Princess Mononoke. I had seen Nausicaa… Read Article →

The Spider was a more homicidal The Shadow knock-off. It tended to feature a typical mix of madmen, gangsters, yellow perils and the like, which a fairly small number of more fantastic… Read Article →

SPOILER ALERT: Above image telegraphs the resolution of the film’s extremely hard to predict romantic triangle. Unsurprisingly, all the best stop-animated monsters from the ’50s came courtesy of Ray Harryhausen. (Well, and… Read Article →

Hmm. Serviceable, I guess, but kind of boring. Doesn’t even really establish the giant scorpion thing. Not sure this would have gotten me in the cinema, sans a trailer or something. Luckily,… Read Article →

Well, this one is of rather lower quality than Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, that’s for sure. It’s 90% oater, and 10% dinosaur. Still, if you hang in long enough, you get a… Read Article →

Who doesn’t love stop-animated animation? Sure, there was the occasional prop-created monsters that were terrific, like Them! Or fantastic suits, like in The Land Unknown. (Actually, Land Unknown had both great suit… Read Article →