Two Schmucks Watch THE GREEN SLIME!!!

Here's a humorous video featuring me and BranzantFiLMS' live viewing / audio commentary of the 1968 American-Japanese co-production The Green Slime, staring a whole lot of B-list white people and a whole lot of green-colored monster suits operated by Japanese child extras (not all but most of them are).

The audio commentary here is unlisted hence why I'm sharing it through my blog here:

For a second opinion, here's Brandon Tenold's 20-minute-long review of the exact same film:

Good Bad Flicks vs The Giant Monsters!

There is an alarmingly massive amount movie reviewers and related retrospectives online with an even smaller number of which dedicated to some semblance of serious film appreciation beyond the mainstream weekly film review outlets. Than there are those bizarre yet wonderful movie lovers who balances both extremes but never abandoning the latter (analysis) over the former (funny business).

Among this rare breed is the always entertaining YouTube channel Good Bad Flicks, overseen by its uniquely named host Cecil Trachenburg.

Recently, Good Bad Flicks posted a sincere video asking for help to keep up their channel's quality so that they won't have to resort to desperate advertising measures as The Unfathomable Beast Dubbed YouTube continues to breath down their undeserving backs (excessive word usage is fun).

Seriously though, this channel could use all the love and support it can garner (here's the Patreon page) even if its just through shared awareness among your own friends online.

Since this is a blog primarily dedicated to overlooked giant monsters (something I've strangely gotten a lot of negative flack for from mainstream Godzilla fans), the following collection of videos feature such 'Fantastic Gigantics' in no particular order:

Baby: Secret of The Lost Legend Review

Island Claws Review

Grabbers Retrospective

Monsters Retrospective

Troll Hunter Retrospective

The Stuff Retrospective

Jurassic Park III Retrospective

Moontrap Review

Up From The Depths Review

The Crater Lake Monster Review

Arachnoquake Review

Peter Benchley's The Beast Review

Spiders Review

Robot Jox Review

Robot Wars Review

The Blob Review

The following films discussed by Good Bad Flicks do feature giant monsters in them, they're tertiary elements compared to the bulk of said stories but I wanted to share these Good Bad Flicks episodes regardless:

Spaced Invaders Review

Ghostbusters II Retrospective

In The Mouth of Madness Retrospective

The Guardian Retrospective

My Science Project Review

Killer Klowns from Outer Space Review

The Relic Retrospective

Rare Exports Retrospective

Mosquito Retrospective

Hulk Retrospective

Crash and Burn Review

Krull Review

Prophecy Review

The Guyver Review

Howard The Duck Review

The Angry Red Video Omnibus

At first I was just going to share Brandon Tenold's latest review for THE ANGRY RED PLANET (1959) but, instead, let's do a whole line up of related videos.

Here's the original theatrical trailer for the film over-hyping the Cinemagic technique, courtesy of Scream Factory:

TEXT LINK: https://youtu.be/cBAJEczBaHY

Next, Brandon's humorous take on the film with title card art by yours truly. Wait for the twist ending:

TEXT LINK: https://youtu.be/QDK8PcuyzuY

Next up is the uncut voice-over I did for the previous video, poking fun at the otherwise ominous Martian warning from the film's end. The skit was also inspired by Brandon's numerous subscribers who keep requesting film reviews from him for good or ill. Big thanks to Brayton Conner for the video editing:

TEXT LINK: https://youtu.be/pw5EyNmcm5k

Now for some second opinions on the film, starting with Kaiju Movie Reviews:

TEXT LINK: https://youtu.be/lGkyFew3nTE

Here's The Retro Nerd Girl rather affectionate review for the movie:

TEXT LINK: https://youtu.be/iJpvZe-VXAg

Here's Gary and Iain of Off The Shelf Reviews share their thoughts on the film:

TEXT LINK: https://youtu.be/xLCmQxY3tCw

And, finally, a nearly hour-and-a-half podcast from Film Struck:

TEXT LINK: https://youtu.be/WHLCRok13fI

Caltiki, The (Not So) Immortal Video Collection!

It's October, the month of Halloween, so what better time than to share some of the more macabre giant monster movies ever made, starting with tonight's featured film Caltiki The Immortal Monster (1959)

The story concerns a team of archaeologists investigating Mayan ruins who come across a deadly creature that is a shapeless amorphous blob. They manage to defeat it using fire while keeping a surviving sample of the creature which, ultimately, leads to more death and destruction when the archaeologists return to Mexico City.

You can read more about Caltiki through this well-written review from the blog-site Cool Ass Cinema.

Here's the trailer to wet your gooey appetites:

Alternative upload of the trailer, just in case:

Here's the feature-length film itself:

An alternate upload of the same film because, again, we're dealing with YouTube here:

If you enjoyed the film than I'd recommend the recent Blu-ray release from Arrow Video which, as you'll see in this ad, is teaming with bonus features:

And, lastly, a humorous second opinion from Dark Corners Reviews: