Monster of the Day

It's been featured here before, several times probably. Still, when I saw that Hulu was offering John Frankenheimer's Prophecy, well, that news needs to be spread. If you don't have Hulu, you can rent the film digitally on Amazon Prime for $4 (or watch it free if you take a free trial to either…

I liked some of the beasties from Love and Monsters (although I haven't seen the film yet). Even so, for many of us suits will also beat pixels. So if you're in that mood, here's one from Knights of Badassdom, which I just discovered is actually available on Amazon Prime.

That Love and Monsters cross over with The Neverending Story was weird.

More Love and Monsters. It's a bit too long (and hour 49 minutes; please, folks, 90 minutes!) but I have to say the monsters are winning me over. I might have to give this a look. Again, it's on Hulu.

I noticed Hulu has a movie called Love and Monsters, and apparently it has a lot of giant monsters. So that's cool.

Well, if you've got to go.....

The Japanese poster departments of the time seemed to think, "If the movie's for kids, make the poster look like it was designed by eight-year olds. Composition, bah!" I guess Space Gyaos was being reserved as a surprise, though? Not a bad idea, really. If the above didn't get you to buy a ticket,…

Space Gyaos and Guiron are great (and the brain-eating space ladies, of course), but the film wouldn't work as well as it does without Gamera being at the top of his game. Yes, it's the goofy Gamera, who does Gymkata at one point on a convenient crossbar. However, the Gamera movies, even the comparatively…

I always have thought simple designs are the most popular. Gyaos is basically a bat-like pterodactyl (with the bat features presumably meant to set him apart from Rodan), and I think the second most popular Gamera foe is Guiron, basically a reptilian dog with a giant knife head. Even his range weapon, boomerang shuriken,…

So we watched Gamera vs Guiron for the Watch Party, which was clearly a slam dunk. It was the Japanese language version, which isn't any issue for me, but also in widescreen and with a beautiful print. Anyway, even if you prefer the English tracks for kajiu movies, what you want is the ones…