Filed under: Real Life Monsters | Tags: Blob, caught on camera, creature, deepstaria enigmata, drilling, film, monster, sea, squid, united kingdom
But it might as well be! I just first saw this amazing video last night-at first I was certain a new sea creature was discovered! Well unfortunately a scientist already identified it as a deep sea squid. Either way it’s new to me and totally amazing that this beast was captured on camera while drilling off coast of the UK. It’s pretyy much the strangest thing I have seen in quite sometime-proof to us monster obsessed geeks that real monsters do exist right here on earth! Yay!! Now let’s just hope we never run into this thing while snorkling!
Filed under: Horror Whore, Movies | Tags: 2011, alternate version, Animatronics, cgi, effects, film, john carpenter, monster, Movie, original cut, original version, practical, prequel, puppetry, reshot, review, sequel, special edition, Special Effects, The Thing
I finally got around to watching “The Thing” 2011 prequel I have been trying to avoid for so long. The original 1982 movie of the same name is probably my favorite monster movie of all time! So giving this new movie a chance after hearing about how shitty it was really was a hard thing to do-but I decided to see for myself if the movie sucked as bad as the reviews suggested. My verdict? Yeah it was pretty damn sucky.
First of all this movie was really not much of a prequel. It was basically a remake that tried to do everything the original did but just ten times less impressive. Sure it linked at the end to the Carpenter version but overall this movie didn’t bring anything new to the table. The story was pretty bland, as were the characters even though the movie was pretty well shot and looked very similar to the original-all except for the special effects.
Now we all know that the 1982 version is really the king of practical monster effects. It still remains to this day as perhaps the most creepy and realistic looking effects on screen. The new version however looked as fake and pathetic as ever. Like something out of DOOM interacting with real people. But was it always meant to be that bad? I guess not. The movie originally boasted that no CGI would be used and from what I have read 80% of it was shot with bad ass practical monster effects. Then when the movie was show to the studio they were told the monsters were too slow and they needed the monsters to be jumping around more ect. So they had to go back and reshoot and mostly cover up the old effects with CGI to give it a more modern look. By modern it ended up getting a more fake video gamey look that the kids love so much today. Anyway I am curious-is there a version out there with the original effects?! How about releasing a special edition original cut version? Well here’s a little video that shows you some of the magic that could have been in the 2011 version…
Filed under: Real Life Monsters | Tags: antarctic, antarctica, best new animal of 2012, bigfoot crab, deep sea, discovered, monster, ocean, photo, sasquatch crab, yeti crab
Just the name of this new crab species found in the depths of the Antarctic spoke to me, because if you combine the word Yeti with anything it’s bound to be super rad. But then I saw an actual picture of this new crab species just found and I was even more blown away! I mean, how awesome is this creature?! Pretty amazing too that these things were just recently discovered hanging around deep ocean vents that are shooting water out that up to 721 degrees Farenheit!!! I guess we really don’t need to look for aliens in outer space anymore because we’ve got them right here on earth. I wonder how many other strange creatures exist that we’ve yet to discover right here? I wonder what lurks beneath the earths crust-surely there are some amazing creatures down below even further-who know maybe an intellegent race? But in the meantime I am just happy that there’s now something on this planet called a Yeti Crab!!
Filed under: Movies, Sci Fi | Tags: 1980's, Alien, arena, boxing, chalmun cantina, charles band, karate kid, monster, Movie, peter manoogian, Star Wars
Ok, probably not the greatest movie ever but seriously check out this trailer for this sci fi monster movie from 1989 and tell me it doesn’t look AWESOME! It sometimes amazes me that there are movies out there like this that I have never seen. I can’t be certain of how rad or awesomely BAD it might be but the whole man vs. monster in a cheezy sci fi version of the Karate Kid sounds like a winner to me! It seems like Peter Manoogian who directed this movie was a huge fan of the Chalmun Cantina scene in Star Wars movie and that’s just fine by me as this one pretty much looks like it takes place there.
Of course you guessed it this movie was produced by Charles Band! Never has the idea of intergallactic monster boxing sounded so awesome! I am on the hunt ofr this one but of course it’s nowhere to be found on Ebay or Amazon. I am sure you can find some downloads online but another cool place to get crazy rare movies on dvd is Ioffer.com check that out too!
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alien, attack the block, creature, joe cornish, monster, Movie, nick frost, review, shaun of the dead, simon pegg, super 8
It’s been a couple weeks since I have posted anything here, I feel like a slacker but sometimes there’s just not anything interesting enough to geek out about! Seriously it can be tough thinking of cool shit to write about every day! However yesterday I had the pleasure of viewing an excellent sci-fi flick on the big screen-Attack the Block is a movie that you need to see in the theater as it easily defeats this summers blockbusters by a long shot.
If you haven’t heard already this one is produced by the Shaun of the Dead guys and it shows throughout the entire movie, right down to Nick Frost’s role as a slacker pot dealer middle man (more…)
Filed under: bad movies, Comics, dc comics | Tags: 1989, alan moore, creature, dick durock, film, heather locklear, jim wynorski, monster, Movie, return of the swamp thing, super hero
Ok so this isn’t really that obscure of a movie, but I do know that a good number of my friends have never actually seen 1989′s Return of the Swamp Thing!!! What the hell is up with that? You do see the original Swamp Thing movie all over the place but very rarely do you see the sequel, which is actually kind of a reboot. So I say to all you people there that love super radly bad 80′s movie’s that you best be seeking this gem out!
This box office bomb has it all really, super awesome 1980′s monsters are everywhere in this movie and even better they are throwin’ down with each other constantly! (more…)
Filed under: Fantasy Movies, Movies | Tags: international, monster, Movie, norway, the troll hunter, trailer, troll
I have been rantin’ a bit about thei new movie called “The Troll Hunter” just from a few brief images and a short trailer which basically showed no trolls. Well now get ready for the full trailer and see just how rad this movie really looks! With a super original premise I have a feeling this movie is going to be one of my favorites this year-check it out!!
Filed under: Horror Whore, Movies, Real Life Monsters | Tags: andre ovreda, cloverfield, j.j. abrams, mockumentary, monster, Movie, norway, norwegian, nyform, the troll hunter, troll
I just heard about an amazing looking upcoming movie today called The Troll Hunter! It’s a Norwegian mockumentary in the vein of Cloverfield about a group of researchers set off to uncover an age old conspiracy that the government has been withholding the truth on the existence of trolls. Now that’s an original idea I say for a movie! Perhaps it just may be my personal fascination with trolls as you can see by my recent blog post about the NyForm trolls I collect. The funny thing is that so far the images I have seen of the trolls in this movie very closely resemble the NyForm!! So far this movie is looking amazing and the trolls are larger than life.
I know the whole false documentary thing is a little over played nowdays but I think this movie has enough originality going for it with it’s subject matter so far to make it stand out on it’s own. As you know I’m a sucker for a good monster movie and though this one seems to bare alot in common with Cloverfield and maybe that 90′s movie Twister, these newly released clips have got me pretty dang excited!! Make sure to check out the other clips after the trailer-you’ll get a little more Troll in those…
Filed under: Horror Whore, Movies | Tags: DVD, Fangoria, frightfest, highlander, Horror, les claypool, monster, Movie, pig hunt, primus, razorback, russel mulcahy
I just recently finished wathing the newly released direct to dvd Fangoria Frightfest flick “Pig Hunt”. I must have tried to watch this movie four times before I actually finished it. Not that it was that boring, though maybe it did take a little bit too long to get to the real action, but mainly because I had such a crazy sleep deprived weekend out in Marfa Texas this weekend. Anyway there not too much to say really about Pig Hunt, the newest in the crazed monster wild boar genre, especially when you put it up against it older stepbrother, the amazing Razorback from 1984.
Razorback directed by Russel Mulcahy, who went on later to direct the Highlander films, was a work of art as it followed the story of a crazed Hogzilla in the Australian outback who’s on a killing spree. It’s been most effectively described as Jaws on land. With amazing effects and stunning cinematography this relatively unknown horror flicks remains as one of my fav monster movies of the 80′s. (more…)
