2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 7 Option 2: Daikaiju Mono (2016)
DAY 7. DAIKAIJU: The bigger the better. Who needs a city anyway? We already did War of the Gargantuas today, but you can never get enough giant monster movies, much less one that is endlessly self-referential! Japan is in a mess to say the least. The weather is all screwed up, volcanoes have stopped erupting, there […]
The Prey (1980)
For some reason, old Hollywood actors often show up in slashers. Jackie Coogan, whose career stretched from silent films to playing Uncle Fester on The Addams Family to, well, The Prey appears in this, his last film. Coogan also was the reason for the California Child Actors Bill, the first known legal protection for the earnings of child performers, […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 7: War of the Gargantuas (1966)
DAY 7. DAIKAIJU: The bigger the better. Who needs a city anyway? Today’s theme is close to my heart. As a young kid in the 1970’s, WFMJ-TV 21 in Youngstown, Ohio played monster movies every night at 1 AM (or later, if Tom Snyder was on). They only had so many Godzilla films before they’d […]
The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982)
Inspired by Friday the 13th, Stephen Carpenter and Stacey Giachino wrote the script for this film while students at UCLA under the title The Third Night, which later became Death Dorm. We start with a man running from someone, then hiding in the bushes, before he’s attacked from behind and murdered. Yep — get ready to […]
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