Monster of the Day

Man, that's some high level effects work there.

Ah, Zombies, the low-budget producers favorite monsters. (Hell, Sam Katzman made several zombie movies back in the '50s.)

Ah, the '70s, when you made your low-budget Euro zombie film and it still made sense to hire a bunch of over the hill 'name' actors to star in it. Still, John Carradine. So it *has* to be good, right? Basically watched TV all weekend, and by TV, I mean Netflix. They dropped The…

Meh. Nobody's best work here, I think. Still, these suits you had to kneel in all the time must have been quite a pain.

Seriously, this guy played nearly *everybody*. I wonder how long it would take to watch all his kaiju films. At least a couple of weeks, surely, even if you loaded up on weekends.

Nakajimi brought a ton of other kaiju to life, of course, including this favorite. Now that CGI reigns supreme, we'll truly never see his life again.

Literally a giant in his field. Along with Honda, Ifubuke and Tsuburaya, this gentleman influenced my life more than I'll ever really understand. RIP.

Sorry about yesterday, folks, I very rarely sleep late, but I did yesterday and had to run right to work. I can't even imagine how shocking it was to audiences when the film graphically portrayed the zombies to be flesh-eaters. We take it for granted now, but this was literally very strong meat indeed…

There is so much to talk about with this film that it's hard to get started. One obvious point is that just as movies redefined vampire and (especially) werewolf mythology, Romero completely redefined what a zombie is. Although his later works in the genre were weaker and easily surpassed by others shambling in his…

Sad weekend, with both veteran character actor Martin Laundau and director George Romero passing away. I've probably already covered this guy, but so what? Romero literally redefined the horror genre with Night of the Living Dead, it's the exact demarcation because the classic and the modern horror eras. I can't think of another genre…