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March 7th, 2013: King Kong Escapes

6 Comments Posted in Adventure, Dinosaurs, Espionage, Event Film, Giant Animals, Kaiju, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Robots, Sci-Fi, Sequel, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Japan, killer robots, cash-in, the declining years, Toho, submarine, scientists, Paul Frees, Ishiro Honda, Akira Takarada, Eiji Tsuburaya, Akira Ifukube, Mie Hama, goofy monster suit, gorilla suit, robot servant, Tokyo, apes, Tomoyuki Tanaka, co-production, King Kong, uncharted island, Arthur Rankin Jr, Rankin/Bass Productions, T-Rex, Rhodes Reason, Eisei Amamoto, United Nations, doppelganger, "apes love blondes", suitmation

February 15th, 2013: Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Event Film, Giant Animals, Giant Crustaceans, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sequel, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, bank robbers, Eiji Tsuburaya, fishermen, Godzilla, Hal Linden, Japan, Kumi Mizuno, Masaru Sato, meltdown, Mothra, nuclear weapons, paramilitary group, Shinichi Sekizawa, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, troubled production, uncharted island, yacht

January 20th, 2013: Anaconda (1997)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Animals Attack, Giant Animals, Great White Hunter, Horror, Kaiju, Monster, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Amazon, anaconda, before they were famous, boat, Columbia, Danny Trejo, documentary film crew, Eric Stoltz, filmmaking, Frank Welker, Ice Cube, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, Kari Wuhrer, National Geographic, Owen Wilson, rip-off, snakes

August 25th, 2012: Alligator (1980)

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Leave a comment Posted in Cops, Horror, Event Film, Kaiju, Monster, Great White Hunter, Animals Attack, Independent, Disaster, Giant Animals, Ecological Disaster, Based on an Urban Legend Tagged Drive-In, cash-in, low-budget, it's not over, before they were famous, cult, mad scientist, John Sayles, Dean Jagger, scientists, Los Angeles sewers, maverick cops, evil businessman, wedding, Chicago, Robert Forster, SWAT, overbearing father, National Guard, Henry Silva, father-daugther relationship, cops, bomb defusing scene, mother-daugther relationship, sewers, Perry Lang, sewer lair, Lewis Teague, Jack Carter, Sydney Lassick, Robin Riker, growth hormones, survivor's guilt, alligator, alligator wrestling, 1968 Democratic Convention, overbearing mother, balding, mad bomber

Alligator (1980)

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Leave a comment Posted in Cops, Horror, Event Film, Kaiju, Monster, Great White Hunter, Animals Attack, Independent, Disaster, Giant Animals, Ecological Disaster, Full Reviews, Reviews, Based on an Urban Legend Tagged Drive-In, cash-in, low-budget, it's not over, before they were famous, cult, mad scientist, John Sayles, Dean Jagger, scientists, Los Angeles sewers, maverick cops, evil businessman, wedding, Chicago, Robert Forster, SWAT, overbearing father, National Guard, Henry Silva, father-daugther relationship, cops, bomb defusing scene, mother-daugther relationship, sewers, Perry Lang, sewer lair, Lewis Teague, Jack Carter, Sydney Lassick, Robin Riker, growth hormones, survivor's guilt, alligator, alligator wrestling, 1968 Democratic Convention, overbearing mother, balding, mad bomber

May 29th, 2012: Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century (1977)

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2 Comments Posted in Event Film, Family, Giant Apes, Independent, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged "Skippy the Wonder Dog", Canada, cash-in, dogs, double cross, Drive-In, frozen in ice, Gianfranco Parolini, industrial espionage, industrialist, Italy, Newfoundland, rip-off, scientists, suspended animation, teens, Toronto, Yeti

Konga (1961)

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5 Comments Posted in Full Reviews, Giant Apes, Horror, Kaiju, Mad Scientist, Revenge, Reviews, So-Bad-It's-Bad Tagged botanist, Britain, carnivorous plants, cash-in, chimpanzees, college, college students, embiggened, gorilla suit, Merton Park Studios, Michael Gough, rip-off, teacher's pet

April 22nd, 2012: The Food of the Gods (1976)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animals Attack, Based on a Book, Disaster, Ecological Disaster, Event Film, Giant Animals, Giant Insects, Horror, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original Tagged "this enormous X could feed the world", AIP, bad animation, bad rear projection, bad special effects, Belinda Balaski, Bert I. Gordon, Drive-In, evil businessman, farm, farmers, flood, football player, football team, freely adapted, giant chicken, giant maggots, giant rats, giant wasps, H.G. Wells, Ida Lupino, it's not over, John Cypher, Marjoe Gortner, Ralph Meeker, rats, Samuel Z. Arkoff, scientists, shotgun, tunnel

February 12th, 2012: APE* aka Attack of the Giant Horny Gorilla

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Leave a comment Posted in 3D, Comedy, Event Film, Giant Animals, Giant Apes, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Slapstick, So-Bad-It's-Good, Spoof Tagged actress, apes, bad special effects, before they were famous, cash-in, Drive-In, interspecies lust, kidnapping, Korea, low-budget, models, movie production, movie stars, rip-off, shark, sleazy movie producer

November 24th, 2011: King Kong (1933)

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1 Comment Posted in Black and White, Dinosaurs, Event Film, Giant Animals, Kaiju, Lost World, Monster, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation, The Original Tagged apes, biplane, Bruce Cabot, David O. Selznick, Edgar Wallace, Empire State Building, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Fay Wray, King Kong, Max Steiner, Merian C. Cooper, National Film Registry, natives, New York City, Noble Johnson, obligatory love interest, RKO, Robert Armstrong, sacrifice, Skull Island, Willis O'Brien

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