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Monster of the Day #3143

Sorry, I couldn't get the thumbnail to load.   Back to Weird Tales. As the magazine flourished, it still jumped around a lot regarding cover subjects. While imperiled, half-dressed women were basically a mainstay by the 1930s (it's hard to casually track the issue numbers, since the magazine didn't use them, and often didn't…
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Monster of the Day #3142
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Monster of the Day #3142

Apparently I haven't actually seen this since I was a kid. I watched it on Amazon this weekend and I was shocked that the entire film was in color. Admittedly it was made in 1959, but still. Otherwise it's a really standard space adventure, with the standard crew (the tough and horny commander, the…
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Monster of the Day #3141
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Monster of the Day #3141

Yesterday I was talking about mainstream comical movies of the 80s that had monsters in them as a minor feature. That includes My Science Project, a Ghostbuster-ish, largely forgotten flick about a (of course) high school student who makes a not exactly perfected time machine. At one point, it brings a T-Rex to his…
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Monster of the Day #3140
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Monster of the Day #3140

I've always been vaguely interested in mainstream movies from the '80s and early '90s that you forget/didn't know had monsters in them for no real reason. Like, oh, The Coneheads, or Howard the Duck. I was watching YouTube yesterday and saw a clip from Weird Science, the John Hughes movie where geeks Anthony Michael…
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Monster of the Day #3139
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Monster of the Day #3139

Yesterday we talked about Nezura, the aborted giant rat movie that inadvertently led to the creation of Gamera. We've also touched before on Nessie, the aborted Dai Kaiju film that would have coproduced by Hammer Studios and Toho. The idea isn't as crazy as it sounds, given that Toho Toei (thanks for the correction,…
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Monster of the Day #3138
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Monster of the Day #3138

I'm sure some of you know this story, but I'd never heard of it. Nezura was meant to Daiei's entry into the Kaiju market then at a peak due to (obviously) Toho. The film was going to be about giant rats, which probably isn't that surprising to you given the still image above. The…
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Monster of the Day #3137
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Monster of the Day #3137

So I thought I’d mix up Monster of the Day a bit. Rather than just post a picture on Mondays, assuming I can rouse the energy, I’ll examine a monster in text. I picked the She-Creature to kick things off because the movie is available on Amazon Prime (for the moment), and because it…
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Monster of the Day #3136
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Monster of the Day #3136

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Sadly, Blood Freak isn't on Amazon anymore, but there is a decent print on YouTube. I'm sure they will autoinsert some commercials in there, but hey, it's available. If you have Amazon Prime and are looking for stuff to watch over the long weekend, I'd suggest watching some of the classic…
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Monster of the Day #3135
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Monster of the Day #3135

You know the economy's gone south when the Devil outsources his rosaries to China. Man, I'm digging the '20s art aesthetic. I think I'll probably post tomorrow (hopefully after sleeping in a bit), but in case I don't, a very very Happy Thanksgiving to all of you.
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Monster of the Day #3134

  I'm sure The Ghost Table fostered gigantic sales, but how could you follow it up? (That would be achieved for years, until Clark Ashton Smith's epic multi-part The Ottoman Empire.) So for a while after that there were a run of fairly normal Damsels Being Threatened by Lesser Races sort of covers. You…
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