Godzilla King of the Monsters off the hook…
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Godzilla King of the Monsters off the hook…

Godzilla King of the Monsters is officially off the summer’s box office failure list. This is both by dint of having basically broken even at the worldwide box office, as well as having its shortcomings obscure by far more grandiose bombs like Dark Phoenix and Men in Black International. Godzilla KOTM can now be…
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Monster of the Day #1952
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Monster of the Day #1952

For those who don't know, Brett Piper is a throwback, a regional (New Hampshire) filmmaker who has this little niche making very cheapie monster films featuring endearing stop action animation. The movies are terrific or anything, but they scratch an itch for people who miss that sort of thing. This one is Queen Crab,…
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Monster of the Day #1951
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Monster of the Day #1951

This is Blood Thirst. I have so many movies stacked up in my Amazon Prime list that I should probably just take the weekend and watch as many as I can to prune through them. Have a great weekend, everyone!
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Monster of the Day #1950
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Monster of the Day #1950

Looking for '80s cheese? (OK, it was released in 1990, but it's an '80s film at heart.) Amazon Prime has you covered with Demon Wind. Boobs, good make-up and prosthetic effects, and bad/forgettable everything else. It's no Evil Dead, but then you don't expect it to be.
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Monster of the Day #1949
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Monster of the Day #1949

Gallery of Horror, a very low-rent horror anthology from the '60s, got mentioned the other day, and yep, it's on Amazon Prime. The stories tend to have 'shocking' twist endings, which ain't that shocking. Basically it's like if Eerie Publications actually tried to make comics like Creepy that were less reliant on gore, but…
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Monster of the Day #1948
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Monster of the Day #1948

Amazon Prime! Someday I need to start watching more stuff there. Actually good movies, good junk, bad junk, classic TV shows. (Both Secret Agent Man and The Prisoner.) And I really just subscribe for the free shipping, so its all a bonus. It's pretty sweet. How many people here have Amazon Prime? Perhaps we…
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Monster of the Day #1947
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Monster of the Day #1947

Blood Beat is another Amazon Prime film, a regional (Wisconsin) slasher flick that's 80% horrible deathly slop and 20% batcrap insanity. The crazy stuff is almost worth sitting through the film for, but man, the pacing is just deadly. Still, you get a killer in full samurai armor--the availability of which no doubt inspiring…
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The greatest “Huh?” of 2019….
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The greatest “Huh?” of 2019….

I had seen this, but Eric Hinkle also aptly commented on it on the thread for the latest MotD. He summed it up nicely, so.... "Has anyone else heard the 'good' news about the goofy old 60's kiddie TV show 'The Banana Splits'? SyFy made a movie about it. But they did change a…
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Monster of the Day #1946
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Monster of the Day #1946

Amazon Prime has your old school schlock covered as well. This is Monster Maker, 1944, with J. Carrol Naish. Have I ever seen this? Maybe not. Just plug in Bela Lugosi Prime in the Prime search engine and see how many titles come up. A lot, if not quite all, of his Poverty Row…
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Monster of the Day #1945
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Monster of the Day #1945

Now i'm just picking random obscure monster movies on Amazon Prime, but that's OK. Island Claws is hardly great, and to the regret of most, as with '50s sci-fi cheapies we don't get to see the monster until the end. But when we do...glorious giant physical prop! Yay! I apologize for the spoiler, but…
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