Monster of the Day

Boy, the second you get that ring on their finger....

Klieg light not included.

I'm not sure I like this gritty reboot of Dennis the Menace very much.

Scariest thing with a ball this side of Michael Jordan. (Hey, I'm from Chicago. Want do you want?)

I'm not a fan of revising old movies, but you can sort of see why Lucas later jazzed up the Sarlacc with CGI. I once owned a book where the guy raved about this movie. I couldn't believe it. Moreover, he kept talking about how 'relatable' the main characters was. "If you weren't him,…

"Ahhhhhhh!! Ventriloquist!"

  Damn goth kids!

Hey, you got your rip-off of Predator in my rip-off of Alien!* [*A good rip-off, but a rip-off nonetheless.]

Well, obviously this guy redefined the invisible monster for the modern age. Once they were used as a cheapie substitute for special effects. Not so after this (or at least less so), as the computer camouflage effect seen here launched a zillion similar monsters. It's the sort of thing that became so ubiquitous so…

Now that's genre filmmaking at its finest. (Came out two years after 2001 a Space Odyssey, by the way.)