Monster Horror Movies - Page 6 of 10

A relic certainly, but a fascinating one, Der Golem is perhaps the screen's first great monster movie. Though it was actually the third time director-star Paul Wegener had played the eponymous creation, the earlier efforts (sadly lost) were rough drafts for this elaborate dramatization of the Jewish legend. When the Emperor decrees that the Jews of mediaeval Prague should be evicted from the ghetto, a mystical rabbi creates a clay giant and summons the demon Astaroth who breathes out in smoky…

Send a monster to kill a monster...Murderer, betrayer, warrior beyond compare...Yet by the cruel standards of the dark elves, Malus Darkblade still has a lot to prove. Possessed by the foul daemon Tz'arkan, Malus only has a year to find five magic artefacts or his soul will be forfeit. To retrieve the Idol of Kolkuth, Malus will have to call on all his cunning and wits to survive a magic labyrinth and defeat its fearsome guardian. The second instalment in the "Darkblade" series, Bloodstorm…

The director of The Mummy and The Mummy Returns brings three of Universalâ??s classic monsters back to life like never before in the action-packed Van Helsing! Legendary monster hunter Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman, X-Men) must rely on the help of the beautiful and mysterious Anna Valeris (Kate Beckinsale, Underworld) as he engages in an epic battle with the ultimate forces of darkness â?? Dracula, the Wolf Man and Frankensteinâ??s Monster! Get ready for non-stop action and spectacular…

"Based on a true story" in the same sense that "Jaws" was. This movie was popular in the '70s and I remember seeing it as a kid, freaing out about the monster attacking a cabin in the woods, and being terrified of rural areas for years afterward. Looking at it now...wow...make sure you have plenty of alcohol or airplane glue to sniff otherwise it's a bit tought to sit through the semi-dull fotoage of the admittedly beautiful bottomlands. Attorcious folk music accompanies…

The first few chapters of the story are great, but then the book takes a disastrous turn and it just continues to go downhill from there. You see the title creature is supposedly some kind of evil entity that can take control of creatures to have it do its bidding. Focusing on one creature, great idea, but having different ones (including a swarm of flies and a witch) in different places just doesn't work. Its like the author had a few different ideas for a monster story and decided to just…

Despite its title, this theatrical feature has little to do with the mecha adventures and ensemble comedy of the popular broadcast series Mobile Police Patlabor. Inspector Shin'ichiro Hata of the Tokyo Police is assigned to investigate an unexplained series of violent and grisly deaths. Instead of the rogue mecha the Patlabor team fight, the killer is a weird, amphibious monster, the product of yet another biotech experiment gone wrong. Hata meets the beautiful scientist who created the monster--using…

Baron Von Frankenstein (voice of Boris Karloff) has decided to retire as the head of the Worldwide Organization of Monsters. But first, he must inform the other monsters about his plans. How to deliver the news? How else - through a MAD MONSTER PARTY! Von Frankenstein’s guests include a who’s who of Halloween favorites, including the Werewolf, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Mummy, the Invisible Man and more. But who among them is fit to be the new head of the monsters? Find out…

Crap movie. There was absolutely no plot as it related to what should have been the horror element of the movie. Some folks are putting on a haunted house and, OMG, there's a monster. We don't know where it comes from, or why its there, it just is. And so while the haunted house staffers work, this monster randomly kills. And the killing is not even interesting; it jumps out, chases its victim for a minute, then sickles them to death. Wow. This screams horror. And why is it that low budget…

Los Angeles, a city where monsters live cheek by jowl with humans. A city where violence simmers just below the surface. Lieutenant Christine Humber of the LAPD's robbery homicide division is well aware of that violence. She has worked for years in the city's most violent district, known locally as Monster Central. When called to a murder scene, Chris and her partner learn that the victim is a shifter--a werewolf--and he died hard. Chris soon realises that she has a very special serial…

In the heart of America, in the world's most secure prison, something horrible is growing in the dark. A wave of cannibalism and fear is sweeping across the heartland, spreading carnage and infection in its wake. Captain Bannerman Clark of the National Guard has been tasked with an impossible mission: discover what is happening — and then stop it before it annihilates Los Angeles. In California, he discovers a woman trapped in a hospital overrun with violent madmen. She may hold the secret…

Still more classic horror comics from the 1950's!!! A full 23 COMPLETE STORIES, in crystal- clear black and white, as drawn by the masters of the macabre, from the heyday of the horror comic book. This issue contains: "The She-Monster" (a Frankenstein story from the heralded Prize Comics series) by Dick Breifer; "The Creature In The Fens" by Jay Disbrow; "Walking Dead" by Bob Powell; "The Thing From The Sea" by Ralph Mayo; "The Spider Man" by Abe Simon; "Quest of the Chlorophyl Monsters" by Jack…

No man, woman or teenager is safe with these gigantic fiends on the loose! First, scaly creatures from the depths rise in THE BEACH GIRLS AND THE GORILLA and the Monster to attack a bunch of party-happy hipsters trying to catch a few waves, turning their hopping shindig into a beach blanket scream-o! Then newly married plantation owner Raymond Burr finds wedded bliss turning into the ultimate domestic nightmare when a voodoo curse turns him into a savage beast, leaving his poor confused spouse a…

Horror legend Boris Karloff headlines two rare features! In Island Monster, one of the rarest of all his films, the King of Horror inhabits a beautiful island paradise filled with nefarious activities, shot on the picturesque Ischia, sister island of Capri. Then savor the uncut, sleaze-filled version of Chamber of Fear, one of Karloff's last films, in which living rock ignites a chain of terror and death!

In his sky-less cavern of a village Simon toils daily, drilling holes to expand his stifling little world until one day he makes an extraordinary discovery: a small glowing drill-bit and the man-sized mech it activates. Before he can give it a second thought Simon s dragged into a plot to break through to the surface by the local gang leader Kamina, only to have the ceiling come crashing down on top of them under the weight of a giant monster! It somehow falls onto the boisterous Kamina and cowardly…

Illuminating the dark side of the American century, The Monster Show uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of our time, as well as horror's function as a pop analogue to surrealism and other artistic movements. With penetrating analyses and revealing anecdotes, David J. Skal chronicles one of our most popular and pervasive modes of cultural expression. He explores the disguised form in which Hollywood's classic horror movies played out the…