Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "monster movie"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "monster movie".

A Quiet Place ** (2018, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) – Movie Review

John Krasinski’s family-in-peril horror monster movie is smart, well made and meticulous, but rather slow and dull, and hardly ever at all scary, though it does have two or three good nail-biting scenes. Worst, with […]

Apr, 03

King Cobra (1999, Pat Morita, Scott Hillenbrand, Casey Fallo, Hoyt Axton, Erik Estrada) – Classic Movie Review 6790

Writer-producer-directors David Hillenbrand and Scott Hillenbrand’s absolutely terrible 1999 monster mutated snake movie, with risible special effects and no sense of its total uselessness as a chiller, is just plain bad, where Anaconda was fun […]

Mar, 12

Kong: Skull Island *** (2017, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L Jackson, Brie Larson, John Goodman, John C Reilly) – Movie Review

It is 1971, and America is afflicted by the twin monsters of the Vietnam War and Nixon, and a team of explorers and soldiers want to get away from it all – and travel to […]

Mar, 08

It! The Terror from Beyond Space *** (1958, Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson, Kim Spalding, Ray Corrigan) – Classic Movie Review 4923

Now where have you heard this before? A spacecraft is sent into space to discover what happened to the 10-man crew of the previous mission and returns to planet Earth with its sole survivor and […]

Jan, 23

The Giant Gila Monster ** (1959, Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, Shug Fisher, Ken Knox, Fred Graham) – Classic Movie Review 4411

Director Ray Kellogg’s low-budget 1959 sci-fi monster movie stars Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone,  Shug Fisher (as the comedy relief) and KLIF disc jockey Ken Knox. Of course it is pretty bad, but it is a fun Fifties B-movie cult classic. Teens are […]

Sep, 26

Beast from Haunted Cave ** (1959, Michael Forest, Sheila Noonan, Frank Wolff) – Classic Movie Review 3919

Monte Hellman made his film directorial debut with Beast from Haunted Cave (1959). It is shot in Deadwood, South Dakota, and Lead, South Dakota, for its mine scenes after the local Chamber of Commerce offered financial incentives to […]

Jul, 02

The Deadly Mantis * (1957, Craig Stevens, Alix Talton, William Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 3918

Yes, it’s a hilariously feeble monster insect woken up by an earthquake at the North Pole. Director Nathan Juran’s amusingly feeble 1957 Universal-International sci-fi horror film monster movie The Deadly Mantis stars Craig Stevens as […]

Jul, 02

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.