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Scary Movie Monday – Mighty Joe Young, Part 2

Continuing our look back at 1949’s Mighty Joe Young, featuring effects supervised by the great Willis O’Brien and early stop-motion animation by Ray Harryhausen. One thing that is really striking while rewatching it on DVD is just how sloppy the … Continue reading

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Out of the Vault – Gamera, Guardian of the Universe

While the mighty Godzilla pretty much made Toho the number one name in Japanese monsters, they did have competition, mainly from a scrappy little studio named Daiei. Daiei’s main monster was Gamera, a flying atomic turtle with gigantic tusks. Yeah, … Continue reading

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Since the alien infection seems to be moving inward from the extremities, I could stab myself through the heart and then see if my blood is still liquid. 1 previous… next…

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There is a way to figure out whether I’m still me or whether I’ve been completely converted to an alien machine, although it means my certain death. 1 previous… next…

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The huge alien spider thing that used to be my ass settles back and watches me, as if it expects something to happen any second now. 1 previous… next…

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The question I now have to ask myself is,”Am I still me, or am I just an alien machine that mistakenly believes it’s me?” 1 previous… next…

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It’s why my leg broke off and crawled away on centipedal legs, and why my ass print is congealing into a big alien spider. 1 previous… next…

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And now the thing’s bite has apparently infected me, so that I am now slowly being transformed into the same type of creature. 1 previous… next…

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Scary Movie Monday – Mighty Joe Young (1949)

Okay, this one isn’t scary at all, but it still has a really big gorilla in it, and there’s some good tension in spots. Continuing our look at lesser-known Willis O’Brien movies and spin-offs (that aren’t King Kong–I’m planning to … Continue reading

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The thing was obviously not a single organism, but a collection of alien nanomachines, grouped together in the shape of a spider. 1 previous… next…

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