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May 15th, 2014: Kaijû Sôshingeki aka Destroy All Monsters (1968)

May15 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Action, Aliens, Dinosaurs, Event Film, Giant Animals, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, War with Aliens Tagged "New York", Akira Ifukube, Akira Kubo, alien ultimatum, Angillas, astronauts, Baragon, Drive-In, futures past, Ghidorah, Godzilla, Ishiro Honda, island, Japan, Kenji Sahara, Minilla, Moscow, Mothra, Paris, prison island, Rodan, scientists, Spigas, Takeshi Kimura, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka

May 13th, 2014: Godzilla: Final Wars

May13 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Action, Aliens, Computer Animation, Dinosaurs, Event Film, Giant Animals, Giant Crustaceans, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, War with Aliens Tagged "homage is French for rip off", "New York", Akira Takarada, alien abduction, Antarctica, athlete turned actor, Godzilla, homage, Keith Emerson, Kenji Sahara, Kumi Mizuno, Minilla, Mothra, mutants, Rodan, runaway planet, scientists, Toho, Tokyo, United Nations

August 25th, 2013: Alligator (1980)

Aug25 by Professor Mortis

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

March 7th, 2013: King Kong Escapes

Mar7 by Professor Mortis

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6 Comments Posted in Adventure, Dinosaurs, Espionage, Event Film, Giant Animals, Giant Apes, 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

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

Feb15 by Professor Mortis

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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)

Jan20 by Professor Mortis

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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

Alligator (1980)

Jul25 by Professor Mortis

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

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

May29 by Professor Mortis

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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)

May12 by Professor Mortis

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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)

Apr22 by Professor Mortis

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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

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