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Category Archives: Giant Insects

May 7th, 2013: Ghidorah, the Three Headed Monster

Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Cops, Crime, Dinosaurs, Disaster, Event Film, Giant Insects, Hit Man, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Superheroes Tagged airplane, Akihiko Hirata, Akiko Wakabayashi, Akira Ifukube, alien possession, alien warning, assassin, assassination attempt, Bad Dubbing, Cassandra, cops, Eiji Tsuburaya, Emi Ito, fishermen, Ghidorah, Godzilla, hanging from a cliff, Hiroshi Koizumi, Japan, Kenji Sahara, lady reporter, model airplane, Mothra, mountains, music summons the monster, plane crash, power outage, princess, prophecy, quotably bad dialogue, reporter, Rodan, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, shock treatment, Takashi Shimura, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, TV show, Yosuke Natsuki, Yumi Ito, Yuriko Hoshi

April 12th, 2013: Earth vs. the Spider (1958)

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Leave a comment Posted in So-Bad-It's-Good, Black and White, Horror, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Giant Insects Tagged Drive-In, musical interlude, rip-off, cash-in, teens, rock and roll, low-budget, bad special effects, scientists, AIP, Science!, teachers, Samuel Z. Arkoff, James H. Nicholson, high school, adults playing teens, Bert I. Gordon, bad rear projection, music summons the monster, gym, DDT

March 1st, 2013: Mosura tai Gojira aka Mothra vs. Godzilla aka Godzilla vs. The Thing

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Leave a comment Posted in Event Film, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Puppetry Tagged Akira Takarada, amusement park, Eiji Tsuburaya, Emi Ito, evil businessman, Godzilla, Hiroshi Koizumi, Ishiro Honda, Japan, Kenji Sahara, Mechagodzilla, photographer, psychic, reporter, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, twins, Yumi Ito, Yuriko Hoshi

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

August 5th, 2012: Mothra (1961)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Event Film, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Killer Plants, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged Akihiko Hirata, allegory, atomic, atomic testing, evil businessman, gods, insects, Ishiro Honda, Japan, Kenji Sahara, kidnapping, music summons the monster, musical interlude, natives, newspaper, nightclub, radiation, radiation mutation, reporter, Robert Dunham, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, shipwrecks, stowaway, Takashi Shimura, telepaths, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, twins

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

October 16th, 2011: Beginning of the End (1957)

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Giant Insects, Horror, Independent, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged "this enormous X could feed the world", bad special effects, Bert I. Gordon, cash-in, Drive-In, farm, lady reporter, less famous siblings, low-budget, Morris Ankrum, Peter Graves, reporter, rip-off, scientists, stock footage, The Marines

October 11th, 2011: The Black Scorpion (1957)

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3 Comments Posted in Black and White, Giant Insects, Horror, Independent, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation Tagged annoying children, arena, cash-in, Drive-In, geologist, kenny, low-budget, Mara Corday, Mexico, Mexico City, Richard Denning, rip-off, scientists, scorpion, train, train attack, volcano, Warner Brothers, Willis O'Brien

July 16th, 2011: Them! (1954)

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Giant Insects, Horror, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged A-Bomb Test, Best Special Effects Nominee, catatonic survivor, Drive-In, Edmund Gwenn, FBI, Fess Parker, it's not over, James Arness, James Whitmore, lone survivor, Los Angeles sewers, New Mexico, radiation mutation, scientists, state police, Warner Brothers, White Sands, World War Two Veterans

June 12th, 2011: Empire of the Ants

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Leave a comment Posted in Based on a Short Story(ies), Ecological Disaster, Giant Insects, Horror, Independent, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi Tagged AIP, ants, bad special effects, Bert I. Gordon, con artist, Drive-In, H.G. Wells, Joan Collins, low-budget, Pamela Susan Shoop, real estate scam, Robert Lansing, Robert Pine, scam, slavery

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