Monster Shack Movie Reviews

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku Written by Bill Finger and Ivan Reiner Run Time: 90 min Tagline: "The Green Slime is coming!" Other Titles: Death and the Green Slime, Gamma #3 Big Military Space Operation (Japan) Classic quote: Doctor Lisa Benson looking over a bloody, smoking, charred body: "He’s dead." The Green Slime is an odd [...]

Written and Directed by Larry Buchanan (based on the story "Being" by Richard Matheson) Run Time: 80 minutes Tagline: Trapped In a Cave of Terror! Wayne Thomas (Tommy Kirk)Wayne Thomas, the intrepid and self-proclaimed “assistant professor of paleontology”, helps Leilla and Bella fight for their lives against Greely and his evil rubber-suited monster. Will Wayne [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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…). [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]