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May 25th, 2013: Laserblast (1978)

Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Horror, Independent, Juvenile Delinquent, Movie of the Day, Possession, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good, Stop Motion Animation Tagged alien possession, alien weapon, cash-in, Charles Band, Drive-In, Eddie Deezen, Keenan Wynn, low-budget, Richard Band, rip-off, Roddy McDowall, Ron Masak, teens, the declining years

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

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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 Bad Dubbing, Japan, Toho, assassin, scientists, airplane, reporter, Eiji Tsuburaya, Akira Ifukube, Rodan, Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Sekizawa, Godzilla, Ghidorah, Hiroshi Koizumi, Akiko Wakabayashi, fishermen, Cassandra, prophecy, quotably bad dialogue, Tomoyuki Tanaka, lady reporter, princess, assassination attempt, cops, mountains, music summons the monster, plane crash, Mothra, Emi Ito, Yumi Ito, Yuriko Hoshi, Yosuke Natsuki, alien warning, alien possession, TV show, model airplane, hanging from a cliff, shock treatment, power outage

April 5th, 2013: Teenage Caveman (1958)

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Leave a comment Posted in Apocalypse, Black and White, Coming of Age, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged "And I would have gotten away with it...", "it was the future all along", adults playing teens, AIP, bad special effects, before they were famous, cave, cavemen, Drive-In, futures past, it's not over, James H. Nicholson, Jonathan Haze, low-budget, Malibu Pictures, Robert Vaughn, Roger Corman, Samuel Z. Arkoff, teens, terrible bear suit, twist

March 29th, 2013: The Green Slime

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Blobs, Disaster, Event Film, Horror, Last Stand, Monster, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged any part of the monster becomes another monster, asteroid, Australia, Bill Finger, co-production, Drive-In, fast reproducing monsters, goofy monster suit, Japan, Kinji Fukasaku, Luciana Paluzzi, MGM, models, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Dunham, scientists, space exploration, space station, the declining years, Toei Company

March 11th, 2013: The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Horror, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Remake, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged Anthony Hinds, Britain, Christopher Lee, Drive-In, Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Monster, grave robbing, graveyard, Hammer, Hazel Court, Jimmy Sangster, mad scientist, mad surgeon, Mary Shelley, Michael Carreras, Peter Cushing, reanimation, scientists, Terence Fisher

March 7th, 2013: King Kong Escapes

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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 "apes love blondes", Akira Ifukube, Akira Takarada, apes, Arthur Rankin Jr, cash-in, co-production, doppelganger, Eiji Tsuburaya, Eisei Amamoto, goofy monster suit, gorilla suit, Ishiro Honda, Japan, killer robots, King Kong, Mie Hama, Paul Frees, Rankin/Bass Productions, Rhodes Reason, robot servant, scientists, submarine, suitmation, T-Rex, the declining years, Toho, Tokyo, Tomoyuki Tanaka, uncharted island, United Nations

March 3rd, 2013: Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla aka Godzilla vs. The Cosmic Monster aka Godzilla vs. The Bionic Monster

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Event Film, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Robots, Sci-Fi, Sequel, The Original, War with Aliens Tagged Akihiko Hirata, Anguirus, archaeological dig, archaeologist, doppelganger, Drive-In, fakeitonium, globe trotting, Godzilla, Interpol, Japan, Jun Fukuda, Kenji Sahara, killer robots, King Seesar, King Shisa, Masaru Sato, Mechagodzilla, music summons the monster, musical interlude, Okinawa, prophecy, psychic, rip-off, scientists, space titanium, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka

February 26th, 2013: The Last Man on Earth (1964)

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Apocalypse, Based on a Book, Black and White, Dark Future, Horror, Independent, Last Man on Earth, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Survival, The Original, Vampires, Zombies Tagged co-production, Drive-In, Italy, kid vampire, low-budget, plague, Richard Matheson, Samuel Z. Arkoff, scientists, troubled production, twist, vampire hunter, Vincent Price

February 23rd, 2013: Island of Terror (1966)

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Leave a comment Posted in Horror, Independent, Monster, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi Tagged Britain, Drive-In, Ireland, low-budget, Niall MacGinnis, Peter Cushing, scientists, Terence Fisher

Nightmare at Noon aka Death Street USA

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Buddy Flick, Disaster, Horror, Independent, Quick Reviews, Remake, Reviews, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good, Western, Zombies Tagged albinos, Bo Hopkins, Brion James, drifter, Drive-In, ex-cop, George Kennedy, Hans Zimmer, helicopter, hitchhiking, intelligent zombies, Kimberly Beck, lawyers, motor home, rip-off, scientists, sheriff, tool using zombies, vigilantes, virus zombies, Wings Hauser, yuppies

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