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Archive for the ‘Creature Feature’ Category

May 31st, 2008

Alone in The Dark Returns in June

Popular survival-horror game Alone in the Dark will release the latest chapter in its saga June 24 on the Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 2 and PC. It will come out on the PS3 at a later date.
Atari’s going for the “open-world” feel that games in the post-Grand Theft Auto era are very much expected […]

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April 7th, 2008

Nim’s Island Takes Second at Box Office

The big sci-fi and fantasy heavyweights aren’t due out for another month yet, but Nim’s Island got off to a strong start this past weekend. The story about a brave girl’s friendship with the reclusive author of the girl’s favorite adventure novels pulled in $13.3 million.
That put it in a virtual tie with the […]

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April 7th, 2008

Get Out the Raid: It’s Our Top 5 Giant Bug Movies

I’m a chicken when it comes to bugs, especially spiders! (It was the size of a Buick and it had a gun.)  Maybe that’s why I enjoy seeing a tarantula the size of a semi get its comeuppance in the form of a bomb.
So here is my list of my Top 5 Favorite Giant […]

By Cynthia -- 1 comment

March 13th, 2008

I Got a Rock

In this SCI FI Channel original movie, Chad Collins of “Lake Placid 2″ (2!) is a college student backpacking through Europe who jokingly pulls a sword from a stone thereby releasing a huge, nasty rock monster (and I was hoping for Rock Lobster) on the tiny village.  Now he has to go from […]

By Cynthia -- 1 comment

March 8th, 2008

Hey, It’s Cool Zombie Toy Time!

Zombie lovers, MEGO has got your sweet, sweet classic zombie figure hookup. EMCE Toys, the brand that brought classic ‘70s toy companyMEGO back this year is releasing four 8” poseable action figures based on characters from the 1968 zombie classic Night Of The Living Dead. The heads are sculpted by fan favorite James Brady in […]

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January 12th, 2008

The Taming of the Killer Shrews

A couple of months ago, I was digging through the Buy 1 Get 5 Free Used DVD pile at my local Game Stop and I spotted it — one of my favorite childhood memories wrapped up in a movie. No, it wasn’t Mary Poppins or The Jungle Book. It was Killer Shrews and I […]

By Cynthia -- 1 comment

January 5th, 2008

What’s Scarier Than a Fiend Without a Face?

Fiend Without a Face is one of my all-time favorite B-movies, due mostly to the antics of the stop-motion brain sucking cuties mentioned in the title. But that’s getting a “head” of the story, so let’s go back.
Marshall Thompson is Major Jeff Cummings. He’s in charge of a super secret (well, sorta secret) military […]

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December 23rd, 2007

All Hail, The Creature Feature!

When I was a kid, I spent every Saturday afternoon sitting in front of the TV watching Dr. Shock and the Creature Double Feature. Dr. Shock was a Philadelphia horror host with slicked back hair, pasty white skin and a set that was decorated with Halloween leftovers from the five and dime. Each […]

By Cynthia -- 3 comments

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