Category Archives: Halloween

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It bit my finger, so I stomped it, but that didn’t come close to killing it, and now I know why. 1 previous… next…

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Or maybe not so simple, since this spider was iridescent and had eight legs that subdivided into sixteen smaller legs. 1 previous… next…

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Out of the Vault – Horobi

Continuing our Halloween celebration of daikaiju in the comics, we have an attempt at a serious horror comic featuring giant monsters. Yoshihisa Tagami’s Horobi, first serialized in Japan in Shonen Captain magazine, then released to the U.S. by Viz Premiere … Continue reading

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Who would have thought that the invasion, when it came, would actually be carried out by a simple spider? 1 previous… next…

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That template, so familiar now, involves thousands of spaceships and war machines blowing our cities all to hell. 1 previous… next…

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That template was solidified when Orson Welles made his infamous War of the Worlds broadcast, Halloween 1938. 1 previous… next…

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H.G. Wells set the template for alien invasions when he wrote War of the Worlds. 1 previous… next…

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Now there’s a crusted red ass-print on the ground, and my fingers are crawling away. 1 previous… next…

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Scary Movie Monday – The Valley of Gwangi

Continuing with our theme of Willis O’Brien related films (that are not King Kong), we have 1969’s The Valley of Gwangi, from Warner Brothers/Seven Arts, featuring perhaps the worst studio logo in Warner’s history, a clunky ‘W’ in a shield … Continue reading

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Plus, my fingers break off when I try to put my weight on them. 1 previous… next…

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