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Universal Studios’ 1954 film Creature from the Black Lagoon is an endearing monster movie, featuring the rubber-costumed Gill Man (Ricou Browning in the water and Ben Chapman on dry land), a prehistoric beast fascinated by […]
Director Renny Harlin’s 1999 horror film Deep Blue Sea isn’t exactly a high-quality monster movie but it is thoroughly enjoyable none the less. Main star Saffron Burrows looks fit as the anti-heroine Dr Susan McAlester, […]
Writer Nigel Kneale turns his 1955 BBC TV play The Creature into the intriguing, intelligently written, decently acted 1957 Hammer horror film The Abominable Snowman, with Peter Cushing reprising his star TV role. Writer Nigel […]
The 355-ft fire-breathing Japanese lizard is back, and so is wide-eyed, constantly frowning 5ft 11in Aaron Taylor-Johnson as a US naval officer in San Francisco who goes to Japan to help his troubled scientist dad […]
Writer-producer-director Lawrence Kasdan’s 2003 screen adaptation (with William Goldman) of the Stephen King novel is brilliantly ambitious and imaginative. Dreamcatcher cleverly combines all King’s usual themes and plotlines. It’s a buddy-buddy flick, paranormal chiller and […]
Director John Bruno’s 1999 monster movie, based on the comic books by Chuck Pfarrer, is good fun. The 100 minutes just rattles along. It’s Alien on the ocean, as an American crew takes refuge in […]
A fictional frozen hibernating prehistoric rhedosaurus – a 200-foot carnivorous dinosaur with four legs – is thawed out in the Arctic Circle by an atomic bomb test and is spotted by physicist Professor Tom Nesbitt, […]