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As a witch in the walled city of Chernograd, Kosara has plenty of practice treating lycanthrope bites, bargaining with kikimoras, and slaying bloodsucking upirs. There’s only one monster she can’t defeat: her ex, the Zmey, known as the Tsar of Monsters. She’s defied him one too many times and now he’s hunting her. Betrayed by someone close to her, Kosara’s only choice is to trade her shadow—the source of her powers—for a quick escape. [more inside]
posted by soelo on Sep 25, 2024 - 2 comments

Review, review, commentary. On Netflix.
posted by box on Sep 21, 2024 - 6 comments

[TRAILER] The Adams Family (the real life family who made the excellent Hellbender) steps up from no budget to low budget with a tale of a US-led fracking crew working in Serbia who uncover a centuries-old French soldier alive (but maybe not so well) under the soil. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 7, 2024 - 4 comments

[TRAILER] In a near future, life on Earth has been decimated. Paul (Nicolas Cage) and his twin teenage sons (Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins) find tranquility by day but terror by night when ferocious creatures awaken and consume all living souls in their path. Faced with an impossible situation, the boys come up with a desperate plan for survival, using everything their father taught them to keep him alive. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 14, 2024 - 4 comments

What do you do when your sister has been swallowed whole by a dragon? True, dragons digest very slowly, so time's not an issue, but merely getting back to the lowest level of the dungeon is a an impossible challenge. You can't afford to buy much food, but even if you could, it's so heavy. You couldn't get very far down before you'd have to turn back, and there's nothing else to eat down there ... or is there? (An anime adaptation of Kui Ryoko's food-centric fantasy manga Dungeon Meshi.) [more inside]
posted by fleacircus on Feb 12, 2024 - 16 comments

Evil meets comedy: creatures, flying eyes, chainsaws, musical heads, Lloyd Kaufman, mystical apparitions, sci-fi horror comedy and a host of other gleeful shenanigans. Director Ken'ichi Ugana expands his sixteen minute short into a loopy, surreal 61 minute feature. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 12, 2024 - 1 comment

Maybe the real legacy was the friends we made along the way. Well, everyone but Tim. Nobody likes Tim. You know what people like? Monsters. [more inside]
posted by Shepherd on Jan 12, 2024 - 9 comments

Following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco and the shocking revelation that monsters are real, “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” tracks two siblings following in their father’s footsteps to uncover their family’s connection to the secretive organization known as Monarch. Clues lead them into the world of monsters and ultimately down the rabbit hole to Army officer Lee Shaw (played by Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell), taking place in the 1950s and half a century later where Monarch is threatened by what Shaw knows. The dramatic saga — spanning three generations — reveals buried secrets and the ways that epic, earth-shattering events can reverberate through our lives. [more inside]
posted by ShooBoo on Nov 20, 2023 - 12 comments

A woman chased by a monster seeks help and an award winning photographer is stalked.
posted by miss-lapin on Oct 14, 2023 - 2 comments

Photographer George Cooper (John Heard) is documenting the lives of subterranean homeless people, a population that has mysteriously dwindled. After receiving information from a reporter, George becomes aware of a conspiracy theory about cannibalistic monsters lurking in the sewers. He teams up with the reporter, a policeman (Christopher Curry) and an eccentric who runs a soup kitchen (Daniel Stern) to fight two battles: one against the cannibals and the other against corrupt government conspiracy. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 7, 2022 - 11 comments

Gurus in the late Goryeo dynasty try to obtain a fabled, holy sword, and humans in 2022 hunt down an alien prisoner that is locked in a human's body. The two parties cross paths when a time-traveling portal opens up. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 27, 2022 - 2 comments

Brought together on a mysterious planet, a mercenary (Adrien Brody) and a group of coldblooded killers now become the prey. A new breed of aliens pursues the ragtag humans through dense jungle. The group must work together to survive, or become the latest trophies of the fearsome intergalactic hunters. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 22, 2022 - 7 comments

When Tallinn enters his unconscious mind, Jean-Luc shares his pain, and gains strength from the sharing. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Apr 14, 2022 - 37 comments

Up where they walk, up where they run/ Up where they stay all day in the sun/ Wanderin' free - wish I could be/ Part of that world [more inside]
posted by Huffy Puffy on Jun 19, 2021 - 17 comments

An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horror. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Oct 29, 2020 - 1 comment

The crypto-zoological agency Monarch faces off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. [more inside]
posted by Fleebnork on May 31, 2019 - 12 comments

In a world that we are assured bears no relationship with anything created by Guillermo Del Toro, three pilots of experimental, implausibly humanoid giant robots fight against monsters from the ocean. Where do the monsters come from and why are they attacking now? Who knows! What's more important is that our heroes, Black Guy, Woman and Obnoxious Bro, fight the monsters to both the stern disapproval and enthusiastic approval of General Father Figure. At last the crew of the Satellite of Love come up against the fearsome work of The Asylum, makers of mockbusters extraordure. In subplot news, this is the second of the six movies of "The Gauntlet," Kinga's latest ratings stunt, a sequence of films shown to Jonah and the bots back-to-back. They hold up well, even though the movie is exceptionally tiresome. "Flush them the movie!" Episode 1202 is available on Netflix. [more inside]
posted by JHarris on Dec 5, 2018 - 28 comments

A young group of monster fanatics attempt to save their hometown from Count Dracula and his monsters. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Apr 18, 2018 - 4 comments

A team of scientists explore an uncharted island in the Pacific, venturing into the domain of the mighty Kong, and must fight to escape a primal Eden. [more inside]
posted by FJT on Mar 21, 2017 - 10 comments

Two hapless freight handlers find themselves encountering Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and the Wolf Man. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Oct 13, 2015 - 2 comments

John is sent to help an old friend at Ivy University, where students have figured out how to get to an alternate dimension - only to be met by a killer. [more inside]
posted by Brandon Blatcher on Jan 30, 2015 - 5 comments

(1963, B&W, Sci-Fi, Horror, Monsters) Monsters invade Los Angeles and a small band of people must fight for survival. Yes, these kinds of movies were made decades before the zombie craze started lumbering about. YouTube (1h 37m) First aired on or around December 30, 1989. [more inside]
posted by JHarris on Oct 31, 2014 - 22 comments

Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 24, 2014 - 15 comments

The pick for this coming Wednesday is a "crossover" pick. It's 2010's Monsters by Gareth Edwards (whose Godzilla remake hit screens this summer.) [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 19, 2014 - 7 comments

The world's most famous monster is pitted against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence. [more inside]
posted by mathowie on May 16, 2014 - 69 comments