Monster Shack Movie Reviews

Another really cool movie maker. Has anybody else out there seen “Stranger Than Paradise”? Man, I LOVED that movie as a angst-ridden pseudo-existentialist teen…I really have to get around and buy that again some day.

“I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.”

A little belated (it was actually yesterday, January 20th), but still…thanks for some really mind-twisting movies…and thanks for warping my teenage brain with “Eraserhead”…Ha! and who could forget Dennis Hopper (R.I.P., sigh) as Frank Booth in “Blue Velvet”. I hope I’m not “Fan Boy’ing” too much here, but I really dig his movies.

I just got a spam comment from a (cough cough) “bed bug exterminator” (posted on the “The Swarm” review no less…ah, so clever). Anyway, it got me to thinking about this so called bed bug “epidemic” and my mind fills with questions: Is it real or is it just because we have become more aware [...]

I’ve always had a thing for trolling around in dying malls. Having lived in Phoenix for many a’year I had the definite pleasure of seeing not a few once proud consumer centers fade into oblivion, often with a lingering finale before the bulldozers administered the coup de grace. Anyway, here’s a fun site with lots [...]

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Moon of the Wolf (1972) A made-for-TV misfire that stumbles about for an hour or so before sputtering to its ridiculous ending. Enjoy! Speaking of endings, this wraps things up for 2010…I hope everybody had a great year and enjoyed the quality entertainment offered on these hallowed pages! See you next year!

Thanks to Karl Hoegle for this nifty guest review of a movie so bad, so limp, and so dull that not even Gary Oldman could save it. Lost in Space (1998) And the critics rave: – “There are so many contradictions and badly-thought out ideas surrounding that, it could physically injure you if you tried [...]

Why did they get rid of the sidebar? What’s with this ugly layout….not to mention all of the apps that have to be re-written in order to parse the new html. Ack. There, I feel better.

Yes, we all know Leslie Nielsen passed away this week. Very sad to see him go. Damn. I’ll never forget the first time I was re-watching Forbidden Planet and realized that the ship’s captain was “the same guy who plays Frank Drebin in ‘The Naked Gun’” Funny how he’s most remembered for that then Commander [...]

I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t been asked to check it out…yes, a Evil Dead inspired band, Ash & The Necronomicons! How cool is that! Check out the site and push some traffic their way if you want…I gotta admit, this was a pretty cool idea.

Well, it looks like a new generation of bad-film makers is ready to unleash their wares upon the world. T.J. Boone asked me to post a link to his newest bad-movie script. Feel free to check it out and give him (assuming he’s a him…Sorry if she’s a she) feedback at the bottom of the [...]

A confused picture originally released as ‘King of Kong Island’…but since there’s no king, no kong, and no island they removed a few words from the title shot and hoped for the best…but it didn’t help. It’s a movie about a guy trying to take over the world with $300,000 and 2 radio-controlled gorillas. Yeah, [...]

Have a good weekend!

Just got an email from a guy wondering if anybody could ID the movie that this sample is from… The line is quite short, basically just “heh heh…destroy!” and occurs at about the 1:13 mark of this video. I thought it sounded like the computer at the end of “Cosmos: War of the Planets”, but [...]

Well, I was slumming it in YouTube the other day and came across one of the most ludricrous fight scenes I ever remember seeing. Yes, the pommel horse fight scene in the Village of the Crazies from, yes, Gymkata! It really brought a tear to my eye, it’s so perfectly ridiculous, what with the mob [...]

Thanks to Sean for dropping off a fun review of a not-so-fun movie: Giant of Metropolis; featuring a muscle-bound lead and lot’s of walking, talking, and narration. No, the movie makes no sense. And yes, that’s why you keep coming back to this site, so enjoy! The Giant of Metropolis (1961)

Wow, people must think I know what I’m doing around here…yikes! Another “help me remember this film” email… Anybody recognize this? “he’s a short guy, about four foot tall, I believe he’s actually a puppet. Sort of like Chuckie, same sort of camera work, showing the legs when he walks/runs. I think he looks similar [...]

From the mailbox: “Do you know the name of a film I saw on tv in the 70s, that featured a couple of hostile aliens found on the moon, one of which looked like a drag-strip racing timing light and the other a floating leathery sphere that ate astronauts?” None of that rings a bell [...]

From a Shack visitor who’s wondering about a rather intriguing movie… “Hi, For the author or anyone else who may read this and who are experts on fantasy pre-historic films, maybe could answer my question. When I was a kid, I remember watching a fantasy pre-historic film, I remember only one scene from it and [...]