Monster of the Day

The best of the Hammer Frankensteins, I think, although I'm not a huge fan of the series. (Peter Cushing aside, obviously.) The central conceit of this one was recycled for the TV movie Frankenstein: The True Story. The film also features a wryly humorous ending, which is as far as I remember never referred…

This seems a rather logical follow-up to our recent Alternate Dracula week, while also affording us another opportunity to fete Sir Christopher.

Scientist in Movie: "It's almost exactly like our planet's Tyrannosaurus Rex!" Joel, disgusted: "No its not." Don't ask me why, that's one of my favorite MST3K lines ever. Along with "Oh, so it's just a regularcat."

Ah, there's the Bert I. Gordon we all know and love.

C'mon, Mr. Gordon, at least paste a fin on it or something.

Man, F/X have come a long way since the first Jurassic Park.

'Nuff said.

This really should have been yesterday's, as this foreign version was made in 1953, five years before Return of Dracula. Like Mexican vampire films made 15 years later, this movie was *cough* heavily influenced by the Universal Dracula films. However, it might be the first film to show a vampire with fangs; indeed, the…

Stupid bad Internet connection. Anyway, here's today's entry, about 12 hours late. This fairly obscure film is sort of interesting because it does what the Night Stalker TV movie did with far greater success; updating gothic vampires and bringing them to modern day America. While Universal brought it's monsters to the modern day, it…