Monster of the Day

An appalling, monstrous abomination of nature. But useful when you've lost your keys.

Boy, you never find out until after the wedding! Am I right, gentlemen? Worse, she immediately put on like 20 pounds.

It Came From Outer Space...To Steal My Smoking Jacket! Darling, quick, hide my fez!

Things went horribly wrong when they lost control of the Yo Gabba Gabba lab.

"You should have seen the humans that got away! They were twelve feet tall if they were an inch!"

"How about that Brooke Shields? She's wild, isn't she?"

Well, no surprise here, as several people had predicted it. Still, it's the Grandfather of Japanese ghost movies. Easy to see where the ghost girl from Ringu originated, she's basically the daughter of this lady. This is on my Halloween watch list, courtesy of the fine folks from Criterion. Maybe a day watching this…

Sexy Cat Stripper...Worst Case Scenario.

Monsters very seldom enter the cultural lexicon anymore; this might be the primary example of successfully doing so this century. And the American remake is a rare example of turning out a very good, discrete version of an Asian film. Aside from the fact that monsters just don't grab mass audiences the way they…

Damn, even in death the Japanese are perverts.