Monster Shack Movie Reviews

Directed by Dave Bradley
Written by Steve Bennett, Peter Miles
Run Time: 91 minutes
Tagline: The most incredible plot to conquer the world!

Phil Day (Walter Stocker)The most incompetent CID Agent the world has ever seen. Nevertheless, Phil is sent to Mandoras to save the world. Thank goodness he drags his wife along with him to help out.

K.C. [...]

Directed by Ishiro Honda
Run Time: 89 minutes
Tagline: Discover the incredible world of tomorrow…15 miles straight down at LATITUDE ZERO!
The sci-fi world of the late 60’s saw a number of weird Anglo-Japanese mutations spring to life, like the terrifying space-born menace, The Green Slime. And just as wondrously, the 1969 fantasia about an enlightened genius, his [...]

Directed by Noriaki Yuasa
Run Time: 82 minutes
Other Titles: "Gamera vs. Guiron", "Gamera vs. the Devil-Beast Guiron"
Yes, he’s back.
Everybody’s favorite giant, flying, fire-breathing, child protecting, space turtle: Gamera. Created by the wild minds at Daiei Studios in an effort to cash in on Toho’s successful Godzilla series, Gamera has graced the silver screen since 1965 [...]

Directed by Ishii, Akira Mitsuwa, Koreyoshi Akasakai
Written by Ichiro Miyagawa
Tagline: “When evil Space Nazis from the Sapphire Galaxy seek to destroy the earth, only a Japanese man of steel in white tights can save us!” (OK, I made that up. I couldn’t find an official tagline.)
Run Time: 76 minutes

1957 was a seminal year for 3 [...]

Written and Directed by Jerry Warren
Tagline: Her thrills rip forth in wide wild adventure!
Run Time: 102 min
“We’re vampires alright…but only in a synthetic sense.”- Vampire girl

After the release of The Wild World of Batwoman (WWOBW from now on), director Jerry Warren was promptly sued by the owners of the "Batman" character. After a long and [...]

Directed by Robert Hutton
Tagline: “Up from the bowels of the Earth!”
Running time: 76 min
Other titles: “Tomorrow You Die”

As the tag line states: “Up from the bowels of the Earth!”…Indeed.
This lovely little slime-ball of a film was directed by actor Robert Hutton (who coincidentally stars in it, who would have thought…). Hutton had a [...]

Directed by David Quaid
Written by Paul Jacobson
Tagline: “Blast off for Mars… with Santa and a pair of Earth kids!”
Run Time: 81 min
Other titles: "Santa Claus Defeats the Aliens "

Just the title is enough to make my tooth fillings ache. I picture a hairy-armed goon strapping me into a chair and shoving cane sugar down my [...]

Directed by Clark L. Paylow
Written by Lewis Simeon and G.J. Zinnerman
Run Time: 71 min
“All monuments, from the simplest to the most elaborate, stand erect on the closed books of the lives of our dearly departed.”- Cemetary caretaker

OK, first, sorry for the fuzzy screen shots. Some of these movies I review are from a long time [...]

Written and directed by Sidney W. Pink
Tagline: “A prehistoric beast born 50 million years out of time!”
Run Time: 81 min

To give you an idea of just how bad this movie is, consider that the film’s American distributor, the infamous American International Pictures (AIP) (who would distribute anything as long as they could make a buck), [...]

Written and Directed by Bill Rebane / Herschell Gordon Lewis
Tagline: “An Anstronaut Went Up — ‘Guess What’ Came Down!”
Run Time: 69 min
Other titles: "Terror at Halfday"

What do you get when renowned B-movie schlock-meister Bill Rebane (Director of The Giant Spider Invasion) runs out of money half-way through a movie, and a second gore-and-schlock-meister Herschell [...]