Monster Shack Movie Reviews

From the Better Late Than Never Department: The Monster Shack takes great pride in trashing the (gag) “Syfy” channel, but I was recently shocked, yes shocked!, to find it presenting something genuinely good. Thrilling even! And that thing is…..drum-roll….. The Mercury Men. It is, to quote it’s very cool retro poster, “The return of the [...]

Written and Directed by Jack Perez Run Time: 90 minutes Tagline: Winner…Eats…All! Yes! Get ready for the movie that went straight to video in 2009, the movie that will have you pulling your hair out, the movie that will have you spewing beer out of your mouth in laughter, the movie that features your favorite [...]

Written and Directed by James Nguyen Run Time: 90 minutes Rod (Allen Bagh)Salesman, eco-warrior, and fisherman. Rod manages to survive the “birdemic” mostly by luck rather than smarts, and certainly not by acting. Nathalie (Whitney Moore)Mandatory love interest and hot-chick. Fair enough. Rick (Colton Osborne)Rick the sexaholic, annoying guy. Will the birds kill him?…tough question. [...]

Directed by David Flores Written by Chase Parker and Sam Wells Run Time: 92minutes Tagline: Get Ready To Rumble… Not too much to discuss here, so this review is going to be a bit shorter than usual. I was excited to watch this Bulgarian quickie-production when I first saw the DVD cover proudly displaying 2 [...]

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan Written by M. Night Shyamalan Co-Starring M. Night Shyamalan Produced by M. Night Shyamalan Run Time: 109 Minutes Tagline: Time is running out for a happy ending. Like most people on the planet, I was terrifically impressed by M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 debut The Sixth Sense. I was wrapped up [...]

Written and Directed by Neill Blomkamp Run Time: 112 minutes Tagline: You are not welcome here Peter Jackson’s latest production District 9 is an wonderfully ironic look at man’s inhumanity to man, and man’s inhumanity to inhumanity. Basically: What if alien refugees sort of, well, parked their spaceship at our planet and couldn’t leave? Yes, [...]

ATTACK OF THE SCI-FI SOAP OPERA SERIALPART THREE By Sean Ledden War of the Worlds – or – quality time with the kids And now, regrettably, we come back full-circle to Monsieur Spielberg. Remember how I complained in Close Encounters of the Third Kind of our long immersion into Neary household trauma? Well, now that [...]

ATTACK OF THE SCI-FI SOAP OPERA SERIALPART TWO by Sean Ledden Mission to MUSH (OOPS, I mean MARS) Mission to Mars came out in 2000, and unlike Contact, it avoids the God question entirely. This should be refreshing, but unfortunately it is so besotted with sex and romance it doesn’t have another idea in its [...]

Produced by J. J. Abrams Tagline: “Some Thing Has Found Us” A guest review by stalwart contributor Sean Ledden Most of the movies ridiculed, I mean critiqued, at the Monster Shack are prehistoric artifacts from a murky past. Born from the swampy fringes of a by-gone Hollywood, they lumbered across the land seeking to thrill [...]

Directed by Roger Christian Written by L. Ron Hubbard, Corey Mandell, J.D. Shapiro Tagline: “Prepare For Battle” Run Time: 119 minutes Review by Karl Hoegle This “movie” starts out with exciting slime green lettering informing us that it is now the year 3000, and Earth has been ruled for the past 1,000 years by a [...]

Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak Tagline: " What Can Two Men Do Against A Gang Of Crooked Cops? Whatever It Takes." Run Time: An 101 excruciating minutes. Sigh. Review by Karl Hoegle Let me start this review (my first!) out with an astonishing fact: OUR HERO does not repeat not use the patented ‘get threatened with [...]

Directed by Anthony Hickox Tagline: “Under water, under cover.” Run Time: 94 min Review by Sean Ledden Like its doughy, stone-faced hero, Submerged is tough. Brutal. Ruthless. It wastes no time before starting to beat the crap out of the viewer with a headache inducing jackhammer montage similar to the one used to torture Malcolm [...]