Monster of the Day

Have I really never featured this guy? Man, I really need to do an inventory.

Third Halloween show, third Twilight Zone parody.

The second Treehouse of Horror went back to the Twilight Zone well (predictably enough, given the age of the people making the show then). Bart fit *very* nicely into the Billy Mummy role.

The first segment of the first Treehouse of Horrors parodied the Amityville Horror, the third was a read of The Raven by James Earl Jones. The second story, however, introduced Kang and Kodos (initially joined by a rare third alien), who have functioned as the mascots of the yearly Halloween episodes. The first one…

I hope everyone had a good weekend. Rings kind of predictably didn't. I figured it sucked when they didn't let critics review it before it came out. However, I was still surprised that it has scored a truly woeful 5% on Rotten Tomatoes. 5%!! It also earned a measly $13, so its probably not…

I remember discussing the trailer for this a few months ago, I hope I didn't use the monster here that day. The film is quite possibly as dire as the trailer made it look, since they clearly didn't screen it for reviewers. Hence the lack of a Rotten Tomatoes score on it's opening day,…

This is going to sound like an absurd statement, but something I think Marvel/Disney doesn't get enough credit for the success of its cinematic universe. One obvious benchmark--even with Marvel there to copy--is the fact that no one else yet has managed to pull it off. DC/Warners has managed to avoid losing any money…

Man, I hope this is decent.

Yep, make anything big enough and it's a monster. We'll see how it plays, though. Of course, these sort of things can be plenty dangerous at regular size. I'm pretty sure that gun wouldn't bring it down in time to do any good. Speaking of supersized, Amazon coincidentally had on sale yesterday a longer…

Monsters have not been in vogue for quite a while now, although the American Godzilla film did OK. And the company that owns the rights to him, Legendary, also owns Kong, so they will rematch them in a couple of years. We'll see if that attracts audiences. In the meantime, the now obviously supersized…