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August 5th, 2012: Mothra (1961)

Aug5 by professormortis

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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

August 2nd, 2012: Bride of the Gorilla (1951)

Aug2 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Black and White, Great White Hunter, Horror, Independent, Lycanthropy/Jekyll and Hyde, Movie of the Day, Mystery, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged "it's all in their heads-or is it?", before they were famous, curse, Curt Siodmak, Drive-In, femme fatale, gorilla suit, gorillas, insanity, it's only a dream, jungle, Lon Chaney Jr., low-budget, natives, older man, plantation, Raymond Burr, stock footage, the declining years, twist, witch, Woody Strode

November 24th, 2011: King Kong (1933)

Nov24 by professormortis

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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

October 27th, 2011: Aguirre: The Wrath of God

Oct27 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Adventure, Arthouse, Drama, Horror, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Road Trip Tagged Amazon, conquistadors, doomed expedition, Germany, Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), insanity, jungle, Klaus Kinski, low-budget, megalomaniac, natives, Peru, river, South America, troubled production, Werner Herzog, Werner Herzog Filmproduktion

The Proposition (2005)

Aug15 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Aussie Western, Period Film, Quick Reviews, Reviews, So-Bad-It's-Bad, Western Tagged "simple" people, Aborigines, alcoholic, Australia, bandits, Britain, Christmas, Danny Huston, David Gupili, double cross, Emily Watson, flogging, gore, Guy Pearce, John Hurt, mob, natives, Nick Cave, on the lam, Pacific Film and Television Commission, prostitutes, racism, racists, rape, Ray Winstone, stilted dialogue, UK Film Council

August 6th, 2011: Gojira (1954)

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Disaster, Drama, Horror, Kaiju, Melodrama, Monster, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged Akihiko Hirata, Akira Ifukube, Akira Takarada, arranged marriage, atomic testing, divers, Eiji Tsuburaya, Godzilla, inventors, Ishiro Honda, Japan, love triangle, natives, palentologists, radiation, radiation mutation, scientists, secret weapon, shipwrecks, Takashi Shimura, Toho, Tokyo, World War Two Veterans

April 26th, 2011: King Kong Vs. Godzilla

Apr26 by professormortis

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1 Comment Posted in So-Bad-It's-Good, Comedy, Remake, Lost World, Event Film, Sequel, Slapstick, Kaiju, Adventure, Movie of the Day Tagged Drive-In, Japan, musical interlude, Universal Pictures, Toho, RKO, island, Ishiro Honda, Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata, natives, Shinichi Sekizawa, Akiko Wakabayashi, music calms the savage beast, ritual, Mie Hama

Gezora, Ganime, Kameba: Kessen! Nankai no daikaijû aka Space Amoeba aka Yog: Monster from Outer Space

Jan10 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Aliens, Full Reviews, Giant Animals, Kaiju, Possession, Reviews, Sci-Fi Tagged Akira Ifukube, Akira Kubo, giant crab, giant squid, giant turtle, industrial espionage, Ishiro Honda, island, Japan, Kenji Sahara, natives, photographer, Toho, underwater photography, volcano, World War Two, Yoshio Tsuchiya

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