-
-
videotapeswapshop. (aka VTSS.) is our pleasantly unhinged tribute to the peculiar world of genre film. We're equally interested in both the ridiculous and the sublime efforts that have emerged from the depths of the genre pool, and in particular, those between the late 1950's and early 90s...
-
FROM THE ARCHIVES
-
The Brain Eaters – 1958 / Director: Bruno VeSota
20 March 2012 4:51 PM | No Comments -
Rolling Thunder – 1977 / Director: John Flynn
12 March 2012 7:58 AM | No Comments -
The Incredible Melting Man – 1977 / Director: William Sachs
26 February 2012 8:21 PM | No Comments -
Panic in Year Zero! – 1962 / Director: Ray Milland
11 January 2012 6:16 PM | No Comments -
Frogs – 1972 / Director: George McCowan
14 November 2011 9:04 PM | No Comments
-
OUR DISTINGUISHED FRIENDS:
MONSTERS Archive
-
The Neptune Factor – 1973 / Director: Daniel Petrie
The United States of America has benefited greatly from our relationship with our neighbors in the Great White North for years. Among the exports that enrich our lives (and this…
-
Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century – 1977 / Director: Gianfranco Parolini
The Yeti is part of nature… and only she should give him life if she so chooses… “Overnourished, overweight Daddy Warbucks” mogul, Morgan Hunnicutt convinces Professor Henry (with Morgan’s…
-
My Mom’s a Werewolf – 1989 / Director: Michael Fischa
Before saying anything else, I think it’s important to state that My Mom’s a Werewolf has the current and unenviable distinction of being, to date, the poorest entry thus far…
-
Night of the Lepus – 1972 / Director: William F Claxton
Jack calm down… he’s gone. The rabbit’s gone… MGM’s silly revenge of nature/mundane monster movie piggy backs on the Drive-In appeal of AIP productions like Frogs and precedes the gloriously awful…
-
Gremlins 2 : The New Batch – 1990 /Director: Joe Dante
Picking up a few years after the monster mayhem of Gremlins, Billy Peltzer (Zach Gilligan) and Kate Beringer (Phoebe Cates) have moved to New York where they are now both working with media mogul Daniel Clamp…
-
Pulgasari – 1985 / Director: Shin Sang-ok
It’s easy to get caught up in the circumstances that surround Pulgasari, a North Korean Monster Movie. Circumstances which understandably threaten to outweigh the film itself. The story goes that…
-
Gremlins – 1984 / Director: Joe Dante
Joe Dante‘s (semi) child friendly variation on the Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde story is a festive masterpiece that oozes wit, charm, viscera and the balls to do something different…
-
Frogs – 1972 / Director: George McCowan
This high concept, eco apocalyptic, doddery piece of amphibious exploitation from George McCowan and the folks at AIP, is a dreary snooze fest almost from start to end. Jason Crockett…
-
Konga – 1961 / Director: John Lemont
Nominally, a Brit-riff on the classic King Kong story, John Lemont‘s Konga manages to deceive expectation and take its audience (two thirds of the way at least) on a camp,…
-
The Swamp Thing – 1982 / Director: Wes Craven
As far as comic book movie remakes go, DC’s slimy Gothic horror hero the Swamp Thing seems to have been left behind, forgotten in the superhero craze of the 80’s….
-
King Kong – 1933 / Directors: Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
Way before the terrifying Chewits adverts of the mid 80s, monster loving audiences were given a large angry ape and a bunch of vicious dinosaurs in Merian C. Cooper and…
