Monster of the Day

Back in the day the first (and for many, many years the only) slasher film I'd seen was Humongous. It was playing at one of my friend's houses when our crowd was hanging out, so I kind of got stuck watching it. It did not endear to the breed, that's for sure. It was…

Again, this will never be my genre, but I have to admit I laughed at the tagline "It's not human...and it's got an axe." It's The Prey, and it's on YouTube.

So, does anyone here like slashers? Not my bag, obviously, as I've established a million times. Still, at this time it's a venerable sub-genre and I was wondering if anyone here did have a soft spot for them. Today's example is The Burning, which is now 40 (!) years old. It's largely remembered for…

"No, no! "In" the pants! "In" the pants!" I remember watching Ants on TV when it premiered in 1977, although I only remember it taking place in a lodge and that all the advertising played up the fact that it 'starred' a suddenly famous Suzanne Summers, much like the TV premiere of Logan's Run…

  Might was well keep the theme going with a bit of a minor classic. Yep, it's Kingdom of the Spiders with William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling and the great Woody Strode. Content Warning: Spiders are clearly killed in the movie, so avoid if you find that sort of thing alarming. Otherwise, it's pretty great.

Yesterday I suggested giving The Bees a watch. I thought another killer animal film would be good for a weekend double bill. So how about Beaks, with Christopher Atkins working that Blue Lagoon heat. You can find it on YouTube by searching under Beaks 1987. I tried to think of a pithy way to…

One of the great recent finds at a T-Fest, courtesy of Sandy, was The Golden Bat, a 1966 crazy Japanese superhero movie that inspired near Ship or Monsters or Super Inframan levels of ecstasy.  And yept, it's on YouTube. Also, Japanese junk media archeologist Kenny Lauderdale today released a fascinating short history of the…

Yesterday I featured the recent killer gator movie Crawl, which is available on both Hulu and Amazon Prime. Maybe you'd like to pair that one with a more old school example though. Prime has been, er, snapping up a multitude of killer gator/croc and shark movies, dozens of them. Most, obviously, are recent movies…

OK, this one is on both Amazon Prime and Hulu, so hopefully many of you could watch it. SYFY (ugh) managed to largely kill my lifelong love of killer animal movies, and many of the theatricals that they poor out--wow, they make a lot of shark movies--aren't really that much better. Well, OK, they…