Back to pulp covers tomorrow. When I returned to work yesterday, I had forgotten that I had bought a ticket for last night to finally see Princess Mononoke. I had seen Nausicaa… Read Article →

The Spider was a more homicidal The Shadow knock-off. It tended to feature a typical mix of madmen, gangsters, yellow perils and the like, which a fairly small number of more fantastic… Read Article →

SPOILER ALERT: Above image telegraphs the resolution of the film’s extremely hard to predict romantic triangle. Unsurprisingly, all the best stop-animated monsters from the ’50s came courtesy of Ray Harryhausen. (Well, and… Read Article →

Hmm. Serviceable, I guess, but kind of boring. Doesn’t even really establish the giant scorpion thing. Not sure this would have gotten me in the cinema, sans a trailer or something. Luckily,… Read Article →

Well, this one is of rather lower quality than Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, that’s for sure. It’s 90% oater, and 10% dinosaur. Still, if you hang in long enough, you get a… Read Article →

Who doesn’t love stop-animated animation? Sure, there was the occasional prop-created monsters that were terrific, like Them! Or fantastic suits, like in The Land Unknown. (Actually, Land Unknown had both great suit… Read Article →

“No! My fiancee! He’s bald!” Anyway, let the bowling puns begin! Happy Friday, everyone. Watch something stupid this weekend.