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August 5th, 2014: Mothra (1961)

Aug5 by Professor Mortis

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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

May 19th, 2014: Gojira aka Godzilla 1985: The Legend is Reborn

May19 by Professor Mortis

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4 Comments Posted in Dinosaurs, Disaster, Event Film, Giant Crustaceans, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel Tagged bird songs, Frankenfilm, geologist, ghost ship, Godzilla, gojira, Heisei Series, masers, nuclear hotline, nuclear power plant, nuclear threat, nuclear war, nuclear weapons, paleontologists, Raymond Burr, reporter, satellite based nuclear weapon, satellites, scientists, sea louse, secret weapon, shipwrecks, suitmation, Super X, Toho, Tokyo, Tomoyuki Tanaka

May 16th, 2014: Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956)

May16 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Black and White, Dinosaurs, Disaster, Drama, Ecological Disaster, Event Film, Horror, Kaiju, Monster, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Tragedy Tagged Akihiko Hirata, Akira Ifukube, Akira Takarada, arranged marriage, atomic testing, divers, Eiji Tsuburaya, Godzilla, gojira, inventors, Ishiro Honda, Japan, love triangle, natives, paleontologists, radiation, radiation mutation, Raymond Burr, scientists, secret weapon, shipwrecks, Takashi Shimura, Toho, Tokyo, World War Two Veterans

June 19th, 2013: The Lord of the Flies (1963)

Jun19 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Adventure, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Black and White, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Survival, Thriller Tagged Britain, bullies, child death, descent into madness, insanity, island, Nicholas Hammond, Peter Brook, remote island, school boys, shipwrecks, William Golding

February 5th, 2013: Tight Little Island aka Whiskey Galore

Feb5 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Comedy, Homefront, Movie of the Day, Period Film, War Movies Tagged alcoholic, Britain, comedic alcoholic, Ealing Studios, Home Guard, Scotland, shipwrecks, whiskey, World War Two

October 15th, 2012: Matango aka Attack of the Mushroom People

Oct15 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Drama, Horror, Killer Plants, Movie of the Day Tagged addiction, AIP, Akira Kubo, allegory, Eiji Tsuburaya, fungi, hallucinations, Hiroshi Koizumi, insanity, Ishiro Honda, it's not over, James H. Nicholson, Japan, Kenji Sahara, Kumi Mizuno, lone survivor, movie stars, mushrooms, musical interlude, radiation, sailors, Samuel Z. Arkoff, scientists, shipwrecks, Takeshi Kimura, temptation, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, transformations, twist, William Hope Hodgson

December 22nd, 2011: Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

Dec22 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Assumed Identity, Black and White, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Holiday, Movie of the Day, Romance, Satire, Screwball, The Original Tagged architect, baby, Barbara Stanwyck, Connecticut, farm, interrupted wedding, Jack L. Warner, nurse, publisher, S. Z. Sakall, sailors, shipwrecks, Sydney Greenstreet, Warner Brothers

September 6th, 2011: Nosferatu (1922)

Sep6 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Black and White, Dracula, German Expressionism, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, Vampires Tagged Bram Stoker, castle, Expressionism, F.W. Murnau, Germany, Max Schreck, Nosferatu, plague, rats, rip-off, shipwrecks, sunlight kills, superstition, warnings from townsfolk

August 6th, 2011: Gojira (1954)

Aug6 by Professor Mortis

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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, paleontologists, radiation, radiation mutation, scientists, secret weapon, shipwrecks, Takashi Shimura, Toho, Tokyo, World War Two Veterans

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