By 1967, the kaiju boon in Japan was in full-swing as Godzilla and his cohorts were scoring respectfully at the box office for Toho Studios, much like Daiei’s kid-friendly alternative Gamera. With efforts like Daiei’s secondary series Daimajin, The X from Outer Space coming from Shochiku and Monster from a Prehistoric Planet released by Nikkatsu by this point, South Korea’s Keukdong Entertainment Company and Japan’s Toei Studios partnered together for the oldest surviving South Korean kaiju film, to capitalize on the genre’s success.
After their wedding night, astronaut Il-woo (Oh Yeong-il) is forced to leave his bride Soon-a (Nam Jeong-im) when his boss Kwang-nam (Lee Sun-jae) tells him of a new mission. After hearing about a potential nuclear test being carried out by a Middle Eastern country, he is to go up on a rocket and spy on the event, which carries off...
After their wedding night, astronaut Il-woo (Oh Yeong-il) is forced to leave his bride Soon-a (Nam Jeong-im) when his boss Kwang-nam (Lee Sun-jae) tells him of a new mission. After hearing about a potential nuclear test being carried out by a Middle Eastern country, he is to go up on a rocket and spy on the event, which carries off...
- 4/18/2021
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
HBO Max is packed with new and classic genre titles this Halloween season. From the new Invisible Man and Doctor Sleep, to The Brood and The Blob, here's a look of what HBO Max is offering as part of their "Halloween is Here" lineup:
Hit horror movies you won’t want to stream alone like The Invisible Man, Us, It: Chapter 2, and Doctor Sleep, creepy cult classics Night of the Living Dead, Eraserhead and Scanners, and psychological thrillers like The Haunting, Glass, and Dolores Claiborne will be available to stream alongside TV series such as Lovecraft Country, True Blood, The Outsider, and Raised by Wolves, and scares for all ages such as Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays, Gremlins 2, Spooky Buddies, and Adventure Time.
In addition, HBO Max is pulling together a collection of Halloween-themed episodes from fan-favorite series like Friends, Euphoria, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Big Bang Theory,...
Hit horror movies you won’t want to stream alone like The Invisible Man, Us, It: Chapter 2, and Doctor Sleep, creepy cult classics Night of the Living Dead, Eraserhead and Scanners, and psychological thrillers like The Haunting, Glass, and Dolores Claiborne will be available to stream alongside TV series such as Lovecraft Country, True Blood, The Outsider, and Raised by Wolves, and scares for all ages such as Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays, Gremlins 2, Spooky Buddies, and Adventure Time.
In addition, HBO Max is pulling together a collection of Halloween-themed episodes from fan-favorite series like Friends, Euphoria, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Big Bang Theory,...
- 10/2/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
David’s Quick Take for the Tl;Dr Media Consumer:
Genocide is the fourth and final title included in Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku, a box set containing the sum total of a short lived experiment that the fabled Japanese studio conducted in the late 1960s. For a movie that doesn’t feature any giant monsters stomping on buildings or blasting victims with exploding laser beams, it otherwise manages to tick off just about every other item associated with Japanese post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror disaster cliches of its era:
a solemn moralistic condemnation of militarized atomic weaponry that both opens and closes the film in a book-ending framework the valiant effort of a few ordinary heroes who bravely put their lives at risk in order to save humanity from its self-inflicted demise involvement of hostile aliens who determine that humans are unworthy to survive after squandering the opportunity...
Genocide is the fourth and final title included in Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku, a box set containing the sum total of a short lived experiment that the fabled Japanese studio conducted in the late 1960s. For a movie that doesn’t feature any giant monsters stomping on buildings or blasting victims with exploding laser beams, it otherwise manages to tick off just about every other item associated with Japanese post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror disaster cliches of its era:
a solemn moralistic condemnation of militarized atomic weaponry that both opens and closes the film in a book-ending framework the valiant effort of a few ordinary heroes who bravely put their lives at risk in order to save humanity from its self-inflicted demise involvement of hostile aliens who determine that humans are unworthy to survive after squandering the opportunity...
- 11/28/2016
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
In my most recent post to this column (of Francois Truffaut’s Stolen Kisses), I mentioned that I would skip the next film on my chronological list, Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell, because I had already podcasted about it not that long ago. But I changed my mind. That decision was partially driven by a mistaken assumption on my part that the next title on my list, namely Orson Welles’ The Immortal Story, was about to get a new release from Criterion the following Tuesday. Actually, that disc won’t hit the market for another couple of weeks, not until August 30, which is too long for me to just let this column sit idle. The reason that I thought that The Immortal Story‘s Blu-ray debut was imminent was because I’ve seen pictures of review copies in circulation and Criterion started yapping about Orson Welles in The Current earlier this month,...
- 8/15/2016
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows that I bookmark and share a ton of links everyday. Over the past few years I’ve tried to get a regular link post series going here on the site, but inevitably I just fall back to sharing Criterion-related links directly on our Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr pages.
I’ve recently caught the “I should start a link post again” bug, and here we are. We’ll see how long I can keep this going again.
Feel free to email me, or tweet at me, if you have links that you think I should bookmark or include in my daily round-up here on the site.
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Our friend Jamie S. Rich has been taking time out of his busy comic book editing schedule to start posting to his Criterion Confessions blog again lately. His latest entry looks at The X From Outer Space,...
I’ve recently caught the “I should start a link post again” bug, and here we are. We’ll see how long I can keep this going again.
Feel free to email me, or tweet at me, if you have links that you think I should bookmark or include in my daily round-up here on the site.
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Our friend Jamie S. Rich has been taking time out of his busy comic book editing schedule to start posting to his Criterion Confessions blog again lately. His latest entry looks at The X From Outer Space,...
- 10/5/2015
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
All this week Amazon has a sale on several of the Criterion Collection horror titles including David Cronenberg's Scanners and Videodrome, Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone and Cronos, Roman Polanski's Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby, Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Godzilla. I have included direct links to each sale title below as well as to my reviews where applicable. If I could make some recommendations, I would perhaps begin with Godzilla and Repulsion if you don't own either of those titles, Cronenberg fans really ought to own both Scanners and Videodrome and the DVD edition of Carl Th. Dreyer's Vampyr is rather kick ass. Give 'em all a look below and see what suits your tastes. Scanners Blu-ray - my review Scanners DVD The Devil's Backbone Blu-ray The Devil's Backbone DVD The Uninvited Blu-ray - my review Videodrome Blu-ray - my review Eyes Without a Face...
- 10/27/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Amazon is running a deal this week on select DVD and Blu-rays from the Criterion Collection including a pair of Terrence Malick films in The Thin Red Line and Badlands. You can also pick up Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited, Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game and Elia Kazan's classic On the Waterfront starring Marlon Brando. I have separated out the selections based on DVD and Blu-ray below and, unfortunately, only the DVD edition of the Three Colors Trilogy is on sale, but if you're looking for a way to ease into the classic it might be worth it. If I were to make a recommendation on these select items I'd suggest considering The Thin Red Line, The Blob, The Rules of the Game and On the Waterfront. Hope that helps! Blu-ray The Thin Red Line - $17.49 Badlands - $18.99 The Darjeeling Limited - $17.49 The Blob -...
- 9/4/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
No, we're not talking about giant space monster Guilala joining forces with other Kaiju, but damn it, that would be cool. Instead, the crew behind the upcoming The Incredible Burt Wonderstone and a Zappa are looking to unleash a new beast!
According to THR, Chris Bender, J.S. Spink, and Jake Weiner are teaming up with Ahmet Zappa for Monster X. Benderspink has optioned the script from Monsterfoot Productions, with the project based on an original idea by Monsterfoot principal Ahmet Zappa.
The idea is a sort of Avengers-style take on the classic monsters such as Dracula, Frankenstein’s creature, Mr. Hyde, and others. (There are 10 in total, and the X in the title is actually the Roman numeral 10.) The who’s who of monsters are assembled to defend humanity against an even greater threat to them all.
Zappa co-wrote the initial script. The plan is to further develop the...
According to THR, Chris Bender, J.S. Spink, and Jake Weiner are teaming up with Ahmet Zappa for Monster X. Benderspink has optioned the script from Monsterfoot Productions, with the project based on an original idea by Monsterfoot principal Ahmet Zappa.
The idea is a sort of Avengers-style take on the classic monsters such as Dracula, Frankenstein’s creature, Mr. Hyde, and others. (There are 10 in total, and the X in the title is actually the Roman numeral 10.) The who’s who of monsters are assembled to defend humanity against an even greater threat to them all.
Zappa co-wrote the initial script. The plan is to further develop the...
- 3/8/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Hopefully you've been keeping track of the daily Black Friday Deals Week posts I've been featuring each morning, if not here is today's, but of course there are also new releases to consider and today we have a few that may be of interest. Tarantino Xx: 8-Film Collection This eight-film Quentin Tarantino collection includes True Romance (which Tarantino wrote and Tony Scott directed), Kill Bill: Volume One, Kill Bill: Volume Two, Inglourious Basterds, Jackie Brown, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Tarantino's Death Proof from the Grindhouse double feature. All of these were previously available on Blu-ray before this collection was put together, but it does include a couple of newly produced special features of its own which include: Critics Corner: The Films of Quentin Tarantino - In-depth critics' discussion piece exploring Tarantino's films that redefined cinema and the impact of one of the most influential writers/directors of our time.
- 11/20/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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