It all starts like something out of the hit TV show, TV’s Bloopers and Atomic Practical Jokes: Scott has taken his brother’s boat out for a cruise with his wife. What he doesn’t know though is that while she’s below deck to get more brew, we’ve gone ahead and detonated an atomic weapon just off the starboard side of Scott’s boat. Any minute now, Scott and his boat will float right through the mysterious haze and we bet he’ll be dumb enough to stand around gawking. Let’s see what happens! Continue reading “The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)”
Category: Horror
Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
This is the very first sequel to Godzilla and easily takes its place in the Godzilla pantheon as a classic since it’s the first time that Anguirus gets completely humiliated by another monster. Little did we know that this film was merely the beginning of a long and vastly undistinguished career for the spiky sphincter. Continue reading “Godzilla Raids Again (1955)”
Alien 2: On Earth (1980)
This is the alien invasion movie that bowlers have been waiting for! The original Alien was a pretty good little film. It had atmosphere, cool monster, gooey special effects, and even a cyborg! But it left a lot of us keglers feeling like it was that spare we had to settle for after failing to pick up the strike in the tenth frame. Sure, you had an alien on the rampage in deep space and all, but where in the heck was all the bowling? How much more dramatic would it have been if the alien was trying to eat Ripley while she was in the middle of trying to bowl 300? Crud! I just soiled myself thinking about the tension! Continue reading “Alien 2: On Earth (1980)”
The Day of the Triffids (1963)
A meteor shower blinds everyone who looks at it! Not too wimpy as far as end of the world scenarios go, what with all those stubbed toes and barked shins. But to give you a little more bang for your meteor-apocalypse dollar, the meteor shower also created tall, ugly, lurching plants called Triffids that walk around sniffing out finger-licking good blind humans for breakfast, lunch, and dinner! Hasn’t this vindictive vegetation ever heard of the Americans With Disabilities Acts? Continue reading “The Day of the Triffids (1963)”
Robowar (1988)
Have you ever sat through Predator and thought to yourself how much you’d like to see the same movie, but without the cool space monster, the big name actors, the special effects, and technical expertise of John McTiernan? Continue reading “Robowar (1988)”
Invisible Invaders (1959)
There’s really no way to overstate how feeble Invisible Invaders is. Even genre stalwart John Carradine is smart enough to get blown up in the opening frames, reappear briefly as a zombie (he’s very convincing as a dead guy), then disappear entirely from things. Continue reading “Invisible Invaders (1959)”
Day the World Ended (1955)
Incredibly, this Roger Corman end of the world shocker was filmed in nine days. It was incredible because while watching it, I was thinking that they should have been able to do it in about a third of the time! Continue reading “Day the World Ended (1955)”