Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
#31 in my ranking of the Classic Universal Monster movies. Whose bright idea was it to change the design of the Gill Man to *checks notes* remove the gills? Seriously, I can understand the half-baked ideas about science taking shortcuts around Nature, the uninteresting love triangle thing that barely exists, or even the meandering story.… Continue reading The Creature Walks Among Us
#22 in my ranking of the Classic Universal Monster movies. The first Creature from the Black Lagoon was something of a hodgepodge of quality with a central monster that seemed accidentally sympathetic. I wasn't expecting that kind of happy accident in the sequel. What I got was a more standard monster movie with more boring… Continue reading Revenge of the Creature
#14 in my ranking of the Classic Universal Monster movies. Finally, a new monster. The Universal Monster franchise had gotten to the point where the serious thrills of the early films had been replaced by outright and intentional comedy. There was room in the market for more straight horror, but the Frankenstein monster just wasn't… Continue reading Creature from the Black Lagoon
#18 in my ranking of the Classic Universal Monster movies. Building off of the surprise financial success of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein as well as the comedic stinger at the end of it, Universal took a script for a straight sequel in the Invisible Man series and inserted the Abbott and Costello personalities into… Continue reading Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
#29 in my ranking of the Classic Universal Monster movies. It's hard to talk about this movie without completely spoiling its twist because all of its faults center around that twist. It's not the twist itself that is the problem, it's that in order for the dramatic impact of the twist to be felt it… Continue reading She-Wolf of London
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