Monster Movies
Fantastic Beasts (And Where Not to Find Them): Monster Movies That Are Pretty Light on the Monster
Audiences are spoiled these days. We like to see what we want to see, when we want to see it. With a resurgence of monster movies of late, I thought it would be interesting to look back through the ge...
I Was a Teenage Spider: The Atomic Age Influence Behind Spider-Man
The journey that Spider-Man has had to become the most iconic Marvel superhero of all time is nothing short of, well, amazing. Created in 1963 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, after the breakout success o...
Seven Underrated Giant Monster Movies to Watch After Kong: Skull Island
We all love a good creature feature. The bigger the better. And luckily, giant monsters are back in style. In just the last few years we’ve had Pacific Rim, Godzilla and now Kong: Skull Island. With t...
Seven Monster Movies That Should Have Spawned Franchises
There are so many great monster movies and creature features in the world of horror. Even when they’re bad, they can be good. They can be fun, entertaining, funny—sometimes even scary, depending on ho...
Review: The Crooked Man Is An Entertaining, Well-rounded Monster Movie
The Crooked Man is a fun, teenage monster movie–a fun thrill ride from start to finish, in all the most literal sense. As the film opens, we are introduced to a gaggle of young women trying to h...
How Carnosaur Beat Jurassic Park to the Punch (We Can’t Believe it Either)
Carnosaur is widely known as a rip off of Jurassic Park. The idea makes sense. After all, Jurassic Park was the biggest hit of 1993 and it built up a lot of hype even before it was released, making it...
Creature Comforts: The Lost Art of the Monster Movie
Horror fans love monsters. That’s what got many of us into the genre as children. We love to see creatures that don’t exist, that we can imagine existing in our world. Monsters we could imagine oursel...
Eight Creature Features That Were Completely Forgotten
Creature features, monster movies, whatever name you attribute to them, they’ve become something of a lost art within the horror genre. They don’t get made anymore, simply because the budgets are too ...
Why Alligator is a Jaws Ripoff that Works Way too Well
Jaws opened up the door for dozens, if not hundreds of imitators. It makes sense when you think about it. Jaws created the blockbuster, after all. It was the first major box office hit of that magnitu...
