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What with The Force Awakens and Rogue One, the Star Wars universe is again invading planet earth! A life-long fan who saw the Star Wars movie 12 times when it came out in 1977, I think this is great. BUT, we also have a problem, a very, very serious problem, which comes from […] Directed by Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi Written by Hideaki Anno Run Time: 120 minutes Thanks to Sean for this review of “Shin Godzilla”, a movie that stars our favorite green mountain of doom! It’s not released out here in the Scandinavian wilds, but I’m sure keeping my eyes open for […] Written by Sean Ledden
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first send to invade earth. Newly discovered piece of ancient wisdom Aliens make terrific villains. Just by virtue of travelling all the way to earth, they prove themselves to be very intelligent and very powerful. At least that’s how it […] Written by Kim Se Ryun Directed by Shin Sang-ok Produced by Kim Jong-il Run Time: 76 minutes
PUGASARI INVADES BROOKLYN! I recently plucked up my courage, gathered my travel papers, and left Manhattan for Brooklyn, located on fabled Long Island, which lies just off […] Written & Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Alexander – Erland Josephson Adelaide – Susan Fleetwood Otto – Allan Edwall Victor – Sven Wollter Maria – Guorun Gisladottir PROLOGUE I’m about to do something very, very bad. So bad, in fact, it may be blasphemous. I’m […] Late last night my morse-code receiver started beeping like crazy so I dashed up and decoded his hurried message: The Return of the King Knowing I planned to see the new Godzilla on opening weekend, Dennis asked me for some impressions – and here they are: Wow! Hollywood finally got it right. This is […] Directed by Roland Emmerich Written by Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin Run Time: 132 minutes Tagline: “1998. The year of GODZILLA!” Like most Godzilla fans, I remember the 1998 Dean Devlin & Roland Emmerich (D&E) version with loathing. So enraged was I after sitting through the damn thing in […] Other Titles: (Giant Space Monster: Guilala （宇宙大怪獣：ギララ） Director: Kazui Nihonmatsu Producer: Wataru Nakajima Screenplay: Eibi Motomochi Moriyoshi Ishida Kazui Nihonmatsu SFX: Hiroshi Ikeda Art Direction: Shigemori Shigeta Music: Taku Izumi CAST: Toshiya Wazaki – Captain Sano Peggy Neal – Lisa Itoko Harada – Michiko Eiji Okada – Dr. Kato Franz Gruber – […] Godzilla Official Trailer Review By Sean Ledden The 2nd trailer for the new Godzilla is out, and I’m officially psyched! Here’s why: No Odious Comic Relief It was clear from the teaser trailer, but amplified here, that we will go back to the super serious mood of the 1954 original. Gone is […] Directed by Mark Stock Run Time: 85 minutes Other Titles: ATTACK FROM MARS PRODUCTION CREDITS: A.K.A. The Perp Walk Screenplay by: Roger Branit, John Chadwell, David Houston, Wade Williams Produced by: Wade Williams Directed by: Mark Stock CAST: Robert Clarke Ann Robinson And a sorry […] Troll Hunter (2010) Directed by André Øvredal Written by André Øvredal, Håvard S. Johansen Run Time: 103 minutes Starting this review by saying that “Trollhunter” is like “The Blair Witch Project” meets “Cloverfield” gives the impression that this is a true Suck Fest. But it’s not – a Suck […] Monster (2008) Directed by Erik Estenberg Written by Erick Estenberg & David Michael Latt Run Time: 90 minutes
In 2008 Cloverfield took the concept to new “heights” (sarcastic laughter) with an estimated budget of $30 million, a very cool monster design, and a cast of […] Directed by Russell Mulcahy Written by Gregory Widen Run Time: 109 minutes A guest review by Karl Hoegle […] 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 […] Directed by Kevin Reynolds Writer by Peter Rader and David Twohy Run Time: 135 minutes A guest review by Karl Hoegle. I must admit that at the beginning of this stinker I was impressed; the Universal globe that denotes the studio that foisted this gem on us slowly […] Directed by David Kramarsky Screenplay by Tom Flier Effects by Paul Blaisdell Run Time: 78 minutes The Monster Shack happily presents a guest review by Randy Landers. Summary: In an inhospitable wasteland far from civilization, a powerful alien touches down and begins tampering with nature, turning calm animals […] Directed by Christopher Ray Screenplay by: Naomi Selfman Tagline: Whoever wins…we lose! Run Time: 88 minutes A guest review by Sean Ledden Our story begins in an African diamond mine where a white trash guard insists the impoverished black workers stay on the job even when […] Directed by David Hogan Written by Rachelle Howie Run Time: 90 minutes Guest review by Sean Ledden The 1950’s had the drive-in theater, and today we have the “Syfy” Channel. Its motto is “imagine greater,” which is astonishing given how much the people who run the channel evidently hate […] Directed by Stephen Hopkins Written by Akiva Goldsman Run Time: A whopping 130 minutes! [Dennis: Ouch!] Tagline: Danger, Will Robinson! Budget: 75 million Total US Gross: 69.102 Million (136 Million worldwide) A Guest Review by Karl Hoegle […] Directed by Umberto Scarpelli Written by Gino Stafford, Sabatino Cuiffini, Oreste Palella, Amabrogio Moltaeni, Umberto Scarpelli, and Emimmo Salvi (whew!) Run Time: 92 minutes Tagline: See! The Dwarfs of Death! See! The City Destroyed by Cataclysm! See! Women Who Live Forever! [NOTE: There are no women who live forever […] |
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