Who'd have thought that David Twohy, the talented writer/director of The Arrival and Pitch Black, did an earlier made‑for‑cable film? Or that the 1991 director’s cut of Blade Runner was actually, according to director Ridley Scott, a test work print (an “approved” director’s cut was released in 1992)? That is important information for SF geeks. But even with that weakness, the information in Creature Features is invaluable. Although he comes across as “one of the guys,” no quality of writing will ever convince me that the demonic travesty Batman & Robin is worth 3 stars (out of 5), the same as far superior films such as The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Akira, and Escape from New York.
Stanley writes in a familiar, friendly style. They also brought a lengthy list of lesser.
The Thing, An American Werewolf in London, or The Evil Dead. This is a list of monster movies, about such creatures as extraterrestrial aliens, giant animals, Kaiju. Within moments of opening the book I had a list of movies to hunt down. One would argue the 80s brought some the finest monster movies in horror history, i.e. His friends and family must be afraid for him very afraid.īut Stanley knows his stuff. According to his introduction, he personally watches each of the movies in the book. Stanley knows more about monster movies than one person really should. Have a great, ghoulish, creepy time picking out your nightmare here! Monster movies originated with adaptations of. The film may also fall under the horror, comedy, fantasy, or science fiction genres.
#Creature feature movies movie#
I use this as a companion book to another one called simply "Video Movie Guide" by Mick Martin which I use mostly to look up movies not included in the Creature Features.Ī pointer to find a lot of these movies, if you can't find a copy online or all you can find is a very low quality rip, you can try visiting or possibly ordering from these two best remaining video stores: A monster movie, monster film, creature feature or giant monster film is a film that focuses on one or more characters struggling to survive attacks by one or more antagonistic monsters, often abnormally large ones. Most of the reviews have very funny sarcastic remarks and tons of puns (all intended)! I specially love the way Stanley exposes the directors hiding behind Alan Smithee or some other pseudonyms, or shlocky italian directors with anglicized names!
#Creature feature movies tv#
It has the classics you can probably see in every critics work but the most important part of this book for me was discovering all these straight to video, made for TV movies, movies from late 80's through early 90's not on dvd yet or only released in foreign countries and are either other region coded or extremely hard to find. Legacy: The whole logo is intended to be scary, but its cheesiness kind of ruins it.If you are any kind of an horror, sci-fi, fantasy fan, this is the greatest read. It has been reported in some late-night reairings of it's movies on the Latin American HBO channel, and well as some Chilean television airings. Most of them are usually cut or plastered.
Finally, the scientist's laughter.Īvailability: Very rare, it was only seen on the five movies the company made. Music/Sounds: An eerie theme in tune with some cheesy clarinet and organ arrangement followed by sounds of blowing wind, thunder cracks and sounds of moving chains. The two-hour documentary presents an in-depth look at the parallel lives of renowned singer Whitney Houston and her daughter Bobbi Kristina. Then the camera moves out to the left, showing more of the basement with chains and spiderwebs everywhere, then the camera zooms into a scientist shoulder who turns and laughs eerily to the spectator, them it zooms in even further to a screen with the logo, consisting on a triangle with a zombie-like hand coming out of it with the words: Logo: We see a bunch of film reels stocked in a poor lit basement with rats crawling all over them.
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