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Shin Ultraman (2022): Feat. Hidetoshi Nishijima, Takumi Saito, Masami Nagasawa; When the SSSP kaiju defence taskforce finds itself in the midst of a particularly ghastly kaiju encounter, a giant silver robot descends from the sky…
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021): Dir. Adam Wingard
Feat. Alexander Skarsgard, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall…; Godzilla and King Kong battle it out in this latest chapter in Legendary's MonsterVerse, directed by horror stalwart Adam Wingard. With this…
Love and Monsters (2020): Dir. Michael Matthews
Feat. Dylan O’Brien, Michael Rooker, Jessica Henwick; After a Monsterpocalypse forces humans into underground colonies, a young man decides against all logic to brave the surface and face the monsters…
Godzilla II: King of the Monsters (2019): Dir. Michael Dougherty
Feat. Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown…; Godzilla goes up against some of the most popular monsters in pop culture history in this epic monster movie, a more inspired sequel to 2014's…
Sator (2019): Dir. Jordan Graham
Feat. Michael Daniel, Rachel Johnson, Aurora Lowe; A critically–lauded, brooding horror film that doubles as a disturbing meditation on family bonds and mental illness, based on the…
Rampage (2018): Dir. Brad Peyton
Feat. Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman…; A fun, big–budget monster movie featuring an extraordinarily intelligent silverback gorilla who mutates into a raging creature of enormous size…
Alien: Covenant (2017): Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Katherine Waterston, Michael Fassbender, Billy Crudup…; The alien resurrection continues with director Ridley Scott returning once again to the sci–fi blockbuster franchise for another…
Shin Godzilla (2016): Dir. Hideaki Anno
Feat. Hiroki Hasegawa, Satomi Ishihara, Yutaka Takenouchi; Terrifying resurgence of the Godzilla franchise from director Hideaki Anno (EVANGELION), taking inspiration from the Fukushima and Tōhoku…
Fungus the Bogeyman (TV Mini-Series) (2015): Dir. Stuart Orme
Feat. Timothy Spall, Paul Kaye, Victoria Wood…; Raymond Briggs' much loved classic gets a laudable live–action adaptation with Timothy Spall going green to play the titular Fungus, a…
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015): Dir. Genndy Tartakovsky
Feat. Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez…; More monster mayhem in this fun follow–up to the hit family comedy. This time Dracula and his friends try to bring out the monster in his half…
Godzilla (2014): Dir. Gareth Edwards
Feat. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen…; The mighty Godzilla returns to the big screen in this thrilling new treatment from MONSTERS director Gareth Edwards.
25th Reich, The (2013): Dir. Stephen Amis
Feat. Jim Knobeloch, Serge De Nardo; Aussie B–movie genre tribute featuring giant Nazi robot spiders, giant mosquitoes, spaceships, etc. The plot involves five American GIs…
Bad Milo! (2013): Dir. Jacob Vaughan
Feat. Ken Marino, Gillian Jacobs, Mary Kay Place; A mild–mannered accountant with bowel problems discovers that a pint–sized demon has moved into his intestinal tract. Though this…
Pacific Rim (2013): Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi…; Guillermo Del Toro injects some bravado and visual panache into this otherwise knuckleheaded live–action cartoon about a team of robot pilots…
Willow Creek (2013): Dir. Bobcat Goldthwait
Feat. Alexis Gilmore, Bryce Johnson; A little bit of Bobcat Goldthwait's genius rubs off on this backwoods horror centred on the Bigfoot legend. While no huge surprises in its makeup, it…
Grabbers (2012): Dir. Jon Wright
Feat. Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Russell Tovey; A very Irish sense of humour permeates throughout this daffy, if highly entertaining horror comedy, about a mutant strain of creatures who descend on…
Resolution (2012): Dir. Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead; When a man receives an anonymous tip that his his best friend is in an isolated cabin wasting away in the depths of a meth amphetamine binge; he…
Sector 7 (2011): Dir. Ji-hun Kim
Feat. Ji-won Ha, Sung-kee Ahn; Produced by the director of tidal wave catastrophe HAEUNDAE, this big budget monster movie (Korea's first in 3D) lurches between hokey character…
El Monstro Del Mar! (2010): Dir. Stuart Simpson
Feat. Nelli Scarlet, Karli Madden, Kate Watts; Three fugitive vixens battle a monster from the deep in this slavishly entertaining ode to the grindhouse exploits of yesteryear, lodged somewhere…
Nightmare on Elm Street, A (2010): Dir. Samuel Bayer
Feat. Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Clancy Brown…; Stylish, shallow reworking of the classic 80s slasher movie (replete with a music video director at the helm) reins in the smirk and aims for a…
Troll Hunter (2010): Dir. André Øvredal
Feat. Otto Jespersen; Three college kids who set out to make a documentary about illegal bear hunters encounter more than bargained for in this thrilling Norwegian…
Chaw (2009): Dir. Jeong-won Shin
Feat. Jeong-hwa Eom; Dorky, RAZORBACK–inspired monster mash, in which a misfit hunting party – including a master huntsman, hotshot cop, and foolhardy ecologist…
Land Of The Lost (2009): Dir. Brad Silberling
Feat. Will Ferrell, Anna Friel, Danny McBride; Based on the popular TV series, this prosaic adaptation sees a goofy Will Farrell play a scientist who gets sucked through a time warp into a…
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009): Dir. Ace Hannah
Feat. Debbie Gibson, Lorenzo Lamas; Former pop princess Debbie Gibson plays a marine biologist charged with saving the world from a pair of super–sized sea predators. Strictly for…
Monsters vs Aliens (2009): Dir. Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon; Rollicking animated flick in which Reese Witherspoon's "50 Ft. Woman" leads a rag–tag group of 'B–movie' monsters kept secret by the…
Cloverfield (2008): Dir. Matt Reeves
Feat. Michael Stahl-David, Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas…; A giant, malevolent extraterrestrial terrorises New York City in this dazzling cult creature–feature–with–a–twist: the action…
Outlander (2008): Dir. Howard McCain
Feat. Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Ron Perlman…; Spaceman Jim Caviezel crash lands in the fjords of Norway, must help Vikings defeat the dragons. Enjoyable daft sci–fi fantasy is by turns…
Alien vs. Predator 2 - Requiem (AVPR) (2007): Dir. Colin Strause, Greg Strause
Feat. Robert Joy; On–the–cheap follow–up to AVP observing the warring Alien and Predator races as they draw battle lines on either side of a small…
Big Man Japan (Dai-Nipponjin) (2007): Dir. Hitoshi Matsumoto
Feat. Hitoshi Matsumoto; A genuine inductee to the 'Incredibly Strange' hall of fame, this gonzo monster mash bounds between deadpan mock–u–mentary following the…
Dragon Wars (D-War) (2007): Dir. Hyung-rae Shim
Feat. Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Robert Forster; Schlocky and ungainly monster movie makes good fist of its Korean legend, about giant dragons resurrected and dispatched upon Los Angeles, served…
Evangelion 'Rebuild' Movies (1.11: You Are (Not) Alone, 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance, 3.33: You Can (Not) Redo) (2007-2014): Dir. Hideaki Anno; The much repeated, much imitated anime makes its big screen debut as a ‘reboot’ of the landmark 26 episode series, following boy hero Shinji’s…
My Name Is Bruce (2007): Dir. Bruce Campbell
Feat. Bruce Campbell, Grace Thorsen, Ted Raimi…; Cult favourite B–grade actor Campbell is kidnapped by a misguided fan who expects him to save the world from very real monsters in this…
Host, The (Gwoemul) (2006): Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Doona Bae, Ah-sung Ko; Colossal Korean blockbuster that single–handedly revives the generic monster movie: birthed from a batch of military–grade chemicals…
Killian Curse, The (TV Series) (2006): Local fantasy–horror series in which the 21 students of Room 21, must each defeat a demon sent by the spirit of their long–dead school…
Boogeyman (2005): Dir. Stephen Kay
Feat. Barry Watson, Emily Dreschanel, Lucy Lawless; Haunted by his father's death, a young man (Watson) quests to discover the identity of the monstrous 'boogeyman' killer, who may in fact be a figment…
Great Yokai War, The (Yôkai daisensô) (2005): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Chiaki Kuriyama; The latest cinematic mash–up from dir. Miike (AUDITION) is a family–orientated adventure in which a shy young boy from a broken family…
Tetsujin 28 (2005): Dir. Shin Togashi; Wacky but earnest live–action update of the classic 1950s anime GIGANTOR, replotted to depict the struggle between a ferocious robot 'Black Ox'…
Alien vs. Predator (AVP) (2004): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Ewen Bremner…; A loud and slime–lacquered clash of the sci–fi titans, the enticing prospect of two classic bogeymen going monstrous…
Godzilla: Final Wars (2004): Dir. Ryuhei Kitamura
Feat. Akira Takarada; A 50th anniversary celebration of the GODZILLA movie franchise, with the big lizard coming up against a roll–call of old foes: Gigan, King…
Incident At Loch Ness (2004): Dir. Zak Penn
Feat. Werner Herzog; Droll and rather odd filmbiz comedy follows the efforts of German auteur Werner Herzog (GRIZZLY MAN) and an inept Hollywood producer, Zak Penn, to…
Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003): Dir. Masaaki Tezuka; More colossal mayhem from the never–ending franchise, with Japan vulnerable to a recuperated Godzilla, who will attack if government scientists…
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla III (Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla) (2002): Dir. Masaaki Tezuka
Feat. Yumiko Shaku; The 27th film in the Godzilla franchise and the fourth film in the Millennium Series. Followed up with a direct sequel the following year, Godzilla:…
Dagon (2001): Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Meroño; The director of RE–ANIMATOR returns for another good crack at an H.P. Lovecraft story, this one adapting the novella "The Shadow Over…
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Monsters All Out Attack (GMK) (2001): Dir. Shusuke Kaneko
Feat. Chiharu Nîyama, Ryudo Uzaki, Masahiro Kobayashi…; Eagerly awaited redux of the GODZILLA brand by Toho Studios has its faults, but is surprisingly smart and effective overall. Like most GODZILLAs,…
Jeepers Creepers (2001): Dir. Victor Salva
Feat. Justin Long, Gina Philips; A brother–sister couple take a rural back road home, but make an ill–advised roadside stop where urban mythology becomes gross–out…
Teenage Caveman (2001): Dir. Larry Clark
Feat. Andrew Keegan, Tara Subkoff, Richard Hillman; The highlight of a ‘Creature Feature’ series that updates drive–in fare of yesteryear, this delirious slab of camp set in a…
Godzilla Vs. Megaguiris (2000): Dir. Masaaki Tezuka
Feat. Shosuke Tanihara; The 25th film in the Godzilla franchise and the second film in the Millennium series. While the film uses the Godzilla suit from Godzilla 2000, it is…
Godzilla - Millennium Series Boxset (Godzilla 2000; Godzilla vs Megaguirus; Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Monsters All Out Attack; Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (III); Godzilla: Tokyo SOS; Godzilla Final Wars) (1999-2004): Boxset of Godzilla's six most recent outings.
Godzilla 2000 (1999): Dir. Takao Okawara
Feat. Takehiro Murata, Hiroshi Abe, Naomi Nishida; A reverential GODZILLA 'sequel' that plays its tale of flying saucers, overgrown reptiles and sea monsters with sober, though good humoured verve.…
Godzilla (1998): Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno; This box–office behemoth from the INDEPENDENCE DAY–makers is not nearly as terrible as the backlash would have you believe – in…
Relic, The (1997): Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore; A dormant microbe mutates and runs amok! ALIEN–in–a–museum is the concept for this well regarded B–picture that spends most…
Tremors 2 (Tremors 2 Aftershocks) (1996): Dir. S. S. Wilson
Feat. Fred Ward, Christopher Gartin, Helen Shaver…; Sequel to the outrageous tongue–in–cheek creature feature TREMORS (1990), with supersucking desert worms returning to terrorise the oil…
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995): Dir. Shusuke Kaneko
Feat. Shinobu Nakayama, Ayako Fujitani; Japanese Kaiju genre film (giant monsters!) which is the ninth inclusion to the Gamera film series, but enjoyable as stand–alone entertainment,…
Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995): Dir. Hideaki Anno; Iconic Japanese manga set in the yeat 2015 on an Earth devasted by wars, and suddenly invaded by nearly invincible extraterrestrial "angels". An…
Brain Scan (1994): Dir. John Flynn
Feat. Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, T.Ryder Smith; Gimmicky horror flick in which teen horror fan Edward Furlong buys a virtual reality CD–ROM game promising the 'ultimate experience in…
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Miko Hughes; Ingenious post–script to the tired NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. franchise in which castmembers of the previous films (playing themselves), too, become…
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993): Dir. Takao Okawara; The 20th film in the Godzilla franchise and the fifth film in the Heisei series, but in fact not a sequel to 1974's Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla.
Tommyknockers, The (1993): Dir. John Power
Feat. Jimmy Smits, Marg Helgenberger, John Ashton…; Stephen King mini–series cut down to a two–hour feature, shot on location in Northland, N.Z. The incoherent, watery thrills can be…
Basket Case 3 (1992): Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. Kevin VanHentenryck, Annie Ross; Completing the trilogy, this installment sees Belial separated from his able–bodied Siamese twin, getting married and fathering a gaggle of…
Candyman (1992): Dir. Bernard Rose
Feat. Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley…; Virginia Madsen's research about a 'mythical' Candyman leads to gruesome murders with a bloodied knife in her hand! A blood–curdling portrait…
Doppelganger (1992): Dir. Avi Nesher
Feat. Drew Barrymore; Drew Barrymore plays an innocent who moves in with a budding horror scriptwriter – ultimately providing him with plenty of source material.…
Godzilla - Heisei Series Boxset (Godzilla vs King Ghidorah; Mothra; Mechagodzilla II; Spacegodzilla; Destoroyah) (1991-1995): Five Godzilla showdowns from the Heisei Studio era. Includes the follow films: GODZILLA vs KING GHIDORAH, GODZILLA vs MOTHRA, GODZILLA vs…
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah / Godzilla vs. Mothra (1991-1992): Dir. Kazuki Omori, Takao Okawara
Feat. Anna Nakagawa; A double–feature of later 'Godzilla' films from the unofficial 'Heisei' era of the early 1990s. In GODZILLA VS. KING CHIDORAH, Godzilla…
Basket Case 2 (1990): Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. Kevin VanHentenryck, Judy Grafe, Annie Ross; Emulating the sublimely grimy flavour of the original, this commendable sequel sees Belial the basket–dweller return with friends of a…
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990): Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover; This commendable sequel sees the little critters take the mayhem to gargantuan proportions, attempting to take over the entire city of New York.
Tremors (1990): Dir. Ron Underwood
Feat. Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Michael Gross; Exciting tongue–in–cheek horror flick in the tradition of 50s 'Creature Features' has Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward among the desert yokels…
Nightbreed (1989): Dir. Clive Barker
Feat. Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg; Novelist Clive Barker's follow–up film to HELLRAISER is again saturated with fantastic monsters and bone–crunching visuals. A dark adult…
Nightmare On Elm Street 5: Dream Child, A (1989): Dir. Stephen Hopkins
Feat. Robert Englund; Fourth sequel milks the wise–cracking dream–demon premise to the point of exhaustion. Still, the franchise continues to provide a handy…
Blob, The (1988): Dir. Chuck Russell
Feat. Kevin Dillon; Effects–laden remake of the 50's classic sees Kevin Dillon get into some very sticky situations. Infamous for its…
Child's Play (1988): Dir. Tom Holland
Feat. Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent…; 'Chucky', the possessed cabbage–patch kid, goes on a murderous rampage in this clever consumerist parable. Tightly scripted and imaginatively…
Nightmare On Elm Street 4: Dream Master, A (1988): Dir. Renny Harlin
Feat. Robert Englund; The franchise, now in full commercial flight, but bereft of new ideas, resorts to self–parody with Freddy Pizza Face Krueger having a riot…
Pumpkinhead (1988): Dir. Stan Winston
Feat. Lance Henriksen; Trashy directing debut for f/x expert Winston, with Lance Henrikson summoning up a vengeful demon.
Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A (1987): Dir. Chuck Russell
Feat. Robert Englund, Patricia Arquette, Laurence Fishburne…; Improving on the perfunctory Pt. 2, this ups the ante on the gross–out special effects as Freddy wreaks further havoc on the kids he's helped…
Critters (1986): Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Zane; A gang of teeth–knashing alien fur–balls who have escaped from 'space prison' invade smalltown Kansas and terrorize the locals, cutting…
Rawhead Rex (1986): Dir. George Pavlou
Feat. David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Lora Lunny; Scripted by cult novelist Clive Barker, a demonesque monster runs riot in an Irish village where an American historian is staying with his family.
Chiller (1985): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Paul Sorvino, Beatrice Straight, Dick O'Neill…; Wes Craven's follow–up to A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, is a detached thriller about an entrepreneur who requests to be frozen and…
Ghoulies / Ghoulies 2 (1985-1987): Dir. Luca Bercovici, Albert Band
Feat. Lisa Pelikan, Jack Nance, Royal Dano; GREMLINS–inspired comic horrors from the mid–1980s in which a young couple unwittingly let loose half a dozen nasty little critters and…
Godzilla 1985 (The Return of Godzilla) (1985): Feat. Raymond Burr; The king of monsters reigns supreme in this hokey 'reboot' of the classic Japanese icon. The first in the Heisei Series of Godzilla films, and the…
Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, A (1985): Dir. Jack Sholder
Feat. Robert Englund, Mark Patton, Clu Gulager…; More of the same special f/x–assisted mayhem from Freddy Krueger and the helpless adolescent residents of Elm Street. Just ask Mom and Dad to…
Troll (1985): Dir. John Buechler, Drago Floyd
Feat. Michael Moriarty, Sonny Bono, Shelley Hack…; Barrel–scrapingly hilarious, this GREMLINS knock–off sees a hairy troll turning an apartment block into a "garden of ancient evil", by…
Gremlins (1984): Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Hoyt Axton, Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates…; Comedy–horror gold just mild enough for the kids, about a boy's new pet that spawns a legion of furry, unruly monsters.
Nightmare On Elm Street, A (1984): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. John Saxon, Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp…; The maiden nightmare of the razor–fingered dream–demon Freddie Krueger, who went on to become the pre–eminent horror icon of the…
Basket Case (1982): Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. Kevin VanHentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner; Sleazy and cheesy horror–comedy about a gawky teenager and his mutant siamese twin, Belial, who has a penchant for caneware and murder.
Swamp Thing (1982): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise; Wes Craven's tongue–in–cheek film version of a popular D.C. comic book character, makes no apology for its cheesy make–up and…
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1980): Dir. John De Bello
Feat. Jack Riley; Wanna–B–movie, that has the requisite half an idea, but fails to take itself as seriously as the true gems in this genre.
It Lives Again (It's Alive 2) (1978): Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Frederic Forrest, Kathleen Lloyd; Three mutant babies embark on a murderous rampage in this schlocky sequel to Larry Cohen's cult hit, with fangs and claws care of effects supremo…
Count Dracula (TV Mini-series) (1977): Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon…; Faithful 70's adaptation of the classic horror novel by Bram Stoker, this critically–acclaimed BBC version utilises London's Highgate Cemetery…
King Kong (1976): Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges; Much–maligned remake of the 1933 classic, is typical De Laurentis fantasy fare – high in concept, broad in character, cardboard in…
Monster Squad (TV Series) (1976): Feat. Fred Grandy; Short–lived kids show has wax museum figures Wolfman, Dracula and Frankenstein come to life to help young mortal Fred Grandy (Gopher from THE…
Queen Kong (1976): Dir. Frank Agrama
Feat. Robin Askwith; One of several knock–offs timed to coincide with the 1976 remake of KING KONG, this lamentable spoof imagines a gender reversal on the 'Kong'…
Beast Must Die!, The (1974): Dir. Paul Annett
Feat. Peter Cushing, Calvin Lockhart, Charles Gray…; A rich sportsman (Lockhart) invites a number of guests to his house with the knowledge that one of them is a werewolf. The film features a novel…
Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla (Godzilla Vs. The Cosmic Monster) (1974): Dir. Jun Fukuda
Feat. Masaaki Daimon; A titanium cyborg Godzilla, manufactured by invading aliens, is the big lizard’s foe in this 14th film of the franchise.
It's Alive (1974): Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. John Ryan, Sharon Farrell, Andrew Duggan; A mutant child is born and goes on a murderous rampage while the parents try to come to grips with their 'baby'. With just enough…
Land of the Lost (TV Series) (1974): Feat. Wesley Eure, Philip Paley, Kathy Coleman; Oddly camp Saturday morning TV show following forest ranger Rick Marshall and his two children who inadvertently opened a rift in time, and now must…
Godzilla Vs. Megalon (1973): Dir. Jun Fukuda; The 13th film in the Godzilla franchise and Showa series has underground nuclear tests upsetting an undersea civilization who set a beetle–like…
Godzilla Vs. Gigan (1972): Dir. Jun Fukuda; The 12th film in the Godzilla franchise concerns aliens plotting to conquer the world using space monsters Gigan and King Ghidrah, which they control…
Horror Express (1972): Dir. Gene Martin
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing; Inspired gothic yarn with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing travelling on the Trans–Siberian express with what could be the missing link.
Dracula vs. Frankenstein (Blood of Frankenstein) (1971): Dir. Al Adamson
Feat. J. Carrol Naish, Lon Jr. Chaney, Anthony Eisley; J. Carrol Naish plays a mad scientist in a wheelchair who conspires with Dracula to resurrect Frankenstein, in this C–grade horror that finds…
Godzilla Vs. Hedorah (Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster) (1971): Dir. Yoshimitsu Banno; The 11th film in the Godzilla franchise and the 'Showa' series features a microscopic alien life–form that feeds on Earth's pollution and grows…
Valley of Gwangi, The (1969): Dir. James O'Connelly
Feat. James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson…; Ray Harryhausen's stop–motion stuff animates this monster–mash about Wild West drifters who try to cash in on the prehistoric creature…
Destroy All Monsters! (1968): Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Akira Kubo, Yukiko Kobayashi; All–star monstrosity from Japan's Toho studios, who did for giant rubber–suits what Hammer did for fangs. Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan et al…
King Kong Escapes (1967): Dir. Ishiro Honda
Feat. Mie Hama, Akira Takarada, Rhodes Reason…; Kaiji co–production between Japan and the USA which pits a robot version of King Kong (MechaniKong!) against a giant dinosaur Gorosaurus. A…
Yongary (Yongary, Monster from the Deep) (1967): Dir. Kim Ki-duk
Feat. Oh Yeong-il, Nam Jeong-im; In the aftermath of a nuclear bomb test, a giant reptilian monster emerges and proceeds to lay waste to Seoul. A spectacularly bad Godzilla…
Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (1966): Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Nick Adams, Akira Takarada; Effective monster movie has an alien civilisation 'borrowing' Godzilla and Rodan to save their world from the dreaded King Ghidrah and the…
Godzilla vs. Sea Monster (1966): Dir. Jun Fukuda
Feat. Akira Takarada, Kumi Mizuno; Lively Godzilla entry sees big G team with Mothra to battle Ebirah, the giant shrimp. The tiny twins Alilenas put in an appearance too. Dubbed.
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet / Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1965-1968): Dir. Curtis Harrington, Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Faith Domergue, Mamie Van Doren; A pair of notable cheese–fests from the "planet of the low–budget": Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965) Directed by Curtis…
Godzilla Vs Mothra (Godzilla Vs The Thing) (1964): Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi; The hulk lizard of Japanese comic book legend takes on the recently hatched spawn of Mothra, with a little help from some spirited stop–motion…
Day of the Triffids (1963): Dir. Steve Sekely
Feat. Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey; Harmless plants mutate into giant man–eaters after a strange meteor blinds those who witnessed it. From John Wyndham's famous novel.
Godzilla vs. King Kong (1963): Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara; Two titans of movie monsterdom battle it out over a low–budget Tokyo set.
Eegah (1962): Dir. Arch Hall, Sr.
Feat. Arch Hall Jr., Richard Kiel, Arch Hall, Sr.…; Hailed as one of the most compellingly 'bad films' ever made, this concerns a young woman who is menaced by the world's last surviving caveman…
Reptilicus (1962): Dir. Sidney Pink
Feat. Carl Ottosen, Ann Smyrner; Many chuckles to be had at the expense of this mini–budgeted monster mash filmed in Denmark. A prehistoric creature rejuvenates itself and…
Slime People, The (1962): Dir. Robert Hutton
Feat. Robert Hutton, Les Tremayne, Robert Burton; Fairly basic B–grade monster paranoia with slimy, reptilian breed of creatures being awoken by nuclear testing and heading out to hunt humans…
Gorgo (1961): Dir. Eugene Lourie
Feat. Bill Travers, William Sylvester; When a baby sea–monster is fished out and paraded as a London circus exhibit, big, bad Momma soon enough comes lookin' for junior. Previously…
Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959): Dir. Bernard Kowalski
Feat. Yvette Vickers; A 'rubber–suited' swamp thing lurks in a Florida bayou. Even B–movie aficianados shouldn't get suckered by this one. 'Stars' Yvette…
Giant Behemoth, The (Behemoth the Sea Monster) (1959): Dir. Eugene Lourie, Douglas Hickox
Feat. Gene Evans, Andre Morell; Cult low–budget creature feature where a dormant dinosaur is resurrected during botched nuclear testing, and rampages through the city of…
Killer Shrews, The (1959): Dir. Ray Kellogg
Feat. James Best, Ken Curtis; Low–budget B–movie set on an isolated island where a small group of people are terrorized by giant voracious shrews in the midst of a…
Blob, The (1958): Dir. Irvin S. Yeaworth
Feat. Steve McQueen; Steve McQueen's first film sees him as a teenager trying to save his home town from a hostile hunk of red protoplasm. Camp fun as only the 50's could…
Brain Eaters, The (1958): Dir. Bruno VeSota
Feat. Ed Nelson, Alan Frost, Cornelius Keefe…; Shoestring drive–in fare about brain creatures from the Earth's core that go about turning humans into mindless zombies.
How To Make A Monster (1958): Dir. Herbert Strock
Feat. Robert Harris; A Hollywood make–up artirst (Harris) is sacked by his studio and decides to enact brutal revenge on the management layer with the help of two…
I Married a Monster From Outer Space (1958): Dir. Gene Fowler Jnr.
Feat. Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott; An exceptional, well–directed 1950's B–movie in which a race of monster–like aliens try to conquer Earth by taking over a…
Viking Women And The Sea Serpent (Saga Of The Viking Women And Their Voyage To The Waters Of The Great Sea Serpent) (1958): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot; Roger Corman schlock scraped from the seabed, about a clan of viking women who head out to sea in pursuit of their missing husbands. Soon they are…
War Of The Colossal Beast (1958): Dir. Robert Gordon
Feat. Sally Fraser, Russ Bender, Rico Alaniz; Colossally inept sequel to the genuinely interesting AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, has the scarred giant discovered looting government food trucks in the…
20 Million Miles To Earth (The Beast from Space, aka The Giant Ymir) (1957): Dir. Nathan Juran
Feat. William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia…; A superior 1950s 'monster mash' unfolds after the first spaceship to Venus crashes off Italy with a shy, but dangerous Venusian on board. Ray…
Monster That Challenged the World, The (1957): Dir. Arnold Laven
Feat. Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Mimi Gibson…; Campy 50's sci–fi creature feature in which an underwater earthquake in California's Salton Sea causes a crevice to open, releasing an army of…
Creature Walks Among Us, The (1956): Dir. John Sherwood
Feat. Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason; Second sequel to THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON this time focusing on a group of scientists on a mission to capture Gill Man and put him on show…
Day the World Ended (1956): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens; Tight B–movie version of post–nuclear existence from with a small group of survivors battling various mutant creatures and their own…
Godzilla - King of the Monsters (1956): Dir. Inoshiro Honda, Terry O. Morse
Feat. Raymond Burr; The original US version of ‘Godzilla’ which spawned countless remakes and sequels. Raymond Burr plays a reporter investigating various disasters…
Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1956): Dir. Dan Milner
Feat. Kent Taylor; Dredged from the darkest depths of B–Movie hell, this quaint 50s horror concerns a murderous underwater creature produced by leaking uranium.
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1956): Dir. Ed Wood Jnr.
Feat. Gregory Walcott, Tom Keene, Bela Lugosi; Ed Wood's 'masterpiece' is renowned as the worst film ever made, but in truth any film this enjoyable can't be so bad. Zilch production values and…
Rodan (1956): Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata; GODZILLA spin–off has a small Japanese town undergoing various monstrous threats, starting with caterpillars and ending with flying prehistoric…
Roger Corman Collection #2 (Creature from the Haunted Seas, It Conquered the World) (1956-1961): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef, Beverly Garland…; A double–feature of Corman sci–fi 'quickies'. It Conquered the World (1956) – Van Cleef lures a malevolent alien from Venus to…
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955): Dir. Robert Gordon
Feat. Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Ian Keith…; It's Ray Harryhausen again, so expect some dazzling special effects. A huge octopus emerges from the Pacific to wreak havoc on San Fransisco.
Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955): Dir. Franklin Adreon
Feat. Phyllis Coates, Myron Healey, Arthur Space; Cult movie serial which reworks stock footage from 1941's JUNGLE GIRL. A giant crayfish monster terrorises the African jungle and it's up to the…
Revenge of the Creature (1955): Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield…; Follow–up to the cult hit CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, with poor, harassed Gill Man captured in the Amazon this time round and brought back…
Godzilla (Gojira) (1954): Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Akira Takarada, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura; The original Japanese version of GODZILLA, complete with the anti–nuclear subplot which was cut from the 1956 US version. Concerns a…
Godzilla - Showa Classics Boxset (Godzilla; Mothra vs Godzilla; Invasion of the Astro-monster; Godzilla vs Ebirah; Son of Godzilla; Destroy All Monsters; All Monsters Attack; Terror of Mechagodzilla; Godzilla vs Hedorah; Gigan; Megalon; Mechagodzilla) (1954-1975): A dozen Godzilla movies from the King of Monsters' original creator, Showa Studios. Available in two volumes. Volume One: GODZILLA (50th…
Monster From the Ocean Floor (1954): Dir. Wyott Ordung; Ultra–cheap Corman production from the writer of 'Robot Monster' concerns a holidaying couple in Mexico who stumble across the monstrous (very…
Invaders from Mars (1953): Dir. William Cameron Menzies
Feat. Jimmy Hunt, Helena Carter, Arthur Franz…; A young boy witnesses the landing and encroachment of hostile Martians. Paranoia allegory pre–dates the similarly–themed BODY SNATCHERS.
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943): Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Patric Knowles, Ilona Massey…; Unique 'dual sequel', following both THE WOLF MAN and GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN. In this episode, the hairy Chaney seeks out the Doctor for a cure, but…
Son of Frankenstein / Ghost of Frankenstein (1939): Dir. Rowland V Lee, Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi…; A double feature of horrors from Universal Studios, the third and fourth films respectively in the FRANKENSTEIN series. Son of Frankenstein (1939)…
All Monsters Attack: A splendid assembling of over fifty sci–fi movie trailers, with an eye for the monstrous, malign and massive. See the destruction meted out by…

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