Back to recently released, high-budget B-movies that somehow got the A-movie treatment. It's a film about giant robots fighting giant monsters. What could possibly go wrong? Ten years after the last major battle of the first Pacific Rim movie, Jake Pentacost makes his living robbing stuff from busted Jaegers, giant mechs with double names that … Continue reading Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
Yes, that's a Japanese movie poster. But this is a North Korean movie. Pulgasari is getting more and more attention as the years go by. Instead of it just being me ranting about it to whoever the heck will listen, even John Oliver is referencing it in his weekly monologues on HBO. Hell, the movie … Continue reading Pulgasari (1985)
Milpitas, California, has a terrible relationship with its trash. They dump it all into a big nasty landfill, which has polluted and poisoned their waterways and left a nasty smell about the place. Now their trash is striking back in the form of a 50-foot-tall mothman monster that steals garbage cans and leaves huge footprints … Continue reading The Milpitas Monster (1976)
Varan the Unbelievable is an extensively edited and recut Americanized version of the Japanese kaiju film 大怪獣バラン, or Giant Monster Varan for those of us who cannot read that. Giant Monster Varan was created by Toho to ape their own Godzilla movie on American television, but the US investors pulled out, so they changed a … Continue reading Varan the Unbelievable (1958)
Everything you need to know about this movie can be summed up in the following picture: A*P*E is a King Kong mockbuster that came out of South Korea around the same time as the Dino De Laurentiis King Kong remake from the 1970s. In fact, the film takes a couple of knocks at the remake … Continue reading A*P*E (1976)
A pair of giant prehistoric bird beast Godzilla knock-offs attack Japan while also ripping off the plot of Britain's own giant monster movie, Gorgo. Fantastic, ain't it? An unscrupulous magazine owner who wishes he was printing pornography (his magazine is called Playmate...) tries to open an amusement park by sending reporters and scientists to a South Pacific island to … Continue reading Monster from a Prehistoric Planet, AKA GAPPA (1967)
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