In the first few decades of filmmaking, the “monster movie” scene was dominated by classic supernatural creatures. Vampires (Nosferatu, Dracula), reanimated dead men (Frankenstein, The Mummy), werewolves (The Wolf Man), and other fiends culled from legend and Gothic literature were…
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Many, many moons ago (October of 2012, to be precise), I wrote an article for this very site listing 12 of the oddest, shoddiest, and least frightening menaces to ever grace the silver screen. From disembodied heads in lab pans…
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“A sinister and unholy figure from the distant past, brought into the 20th century with the unwitting help of a poor chap driven insane by the experience, rises from his grave and sets out to draw a beautiful young woman…
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titan (noun) ti·tan | \ ˈtī-tᵊn 1 capitalized : any of a family of giants in Greek mythology born of Uranus and Gaea and ruling the earth until overthrown by the Olympian gods 2 : one that is gigantic in…
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It was 60 years ago that movie audiences in Japan–and, two years later, America–were introduced by a monstrous Atomic Age menace now known as Godzilla. Guest writer Sark compares and contrasts the original Japanese Gojira with its U.S. counterpart, Godzilla, King of the Monsters.
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To mark this week’s opening of the latest Hollywood take on Godzilla–and the 60th anniversary of the behemoth’s Japanese screen debut–we invite you to vote for your top film starring the world’s most famous Green Monster (sorry, Red Sox fans).
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Take a trip back to the Dawn of Time, as Movie FanFare looks at the history (pre-history?) of caveman cinema, from silent comedies with Chaplin and Keaton to Raquel Welch in a fur bikini and to such serious dramas as Quest for Fire and Iceman.
Read more →You know the drill. Above is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section!
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It Came from Beneath the Sea Movie Review Over the last couple of years I’ve gradually been overcoming my lifelong aversion to science-fiction films by watching some of the classics of the genre. In 2011 I saw both War of…
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Over the years Japan’s big green stomping machine has fought such enormous enemies as Mothra, King Kong, the three-headed Ghidorah and his own bionic counterpart. Vote in MovieFanFare’s poll for the Godzilla foe you like best.
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