Kong Skull Island is a Roaring Good Time!

Kong: Skull Island (2017) Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts. Starring John Goodman, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson and Brie Larson. Hold onto your butts kids, we’re in for one hell of a ride. This movie has it all. A solid cast with a lot of interpersonal character conflicts, strange creatures that … Read More

Top Ten Songs About Monsters

I come from the primordial ooze! Well, not really. But I do come from a time before MTV and music videos. This time of year, the radio stations would play novelty records that had monster themes. Add to this the syndicated Dr. Demento Show on Sunday nights (in Philly), and … Read More

Knock-Off Horror Toys: Feddy, Spook Chasers and Alien-Man

  Prepare to enter a whole new universe of fabulous knock-offs, where the dreams of teenagers are haunted by Feddy (whom scared the letter R out of his own name),  and the city streets of Oldish Detroit are protected by the heroic police cyborg Robert Cop.   Why shell out $400 … Read More

On Sheldon, Leonard, Ultraman and the Man that Played Godzilla

  A couple of weeks ago, Monster Mania Con was held in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. It is just a stone’s throw away from me. The reason for going to the show was to really get our Sheldon/Leonard on. I should point out that there are three of us in my … Read More

B-Movies and Childhood: Why we Love the Best Worst Movies

    According to “Wikipedia,” a B-Movie is “a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not an Art House film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood” (roughly 1929 to 1948), “the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as a less-publicized, bottom half of … Read More