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The mightest foe of the high seas is the cyber-octopus, whose massive metal tentacles can strangle the life out of even the greatest warships. More »
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How often do you get a really great movie in the romantic monster comedy genre (AKA "romster comedy" or "romcomster")? "Not that often" is the correct answer, but luckily a bunch of Australian filmmakers and comedians got together to produce the ultimate example of the romcomster — featuring musical interludes. The result is a short film called $quid (yes, with the dollar sign), a tragic tale of two friends whose friendship goes terribly wrong . . . and then gets worse when one reveals to the other that he owes millions of dollars to a giant squid who inhabits the Brisbane River where they're boating. Now the short flick $quid is about to become a feature-length blockbuster. More »
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It's comforting to know that during the height of Reagan's Cold War in the 1980s, the Soviet Union was making movies that were just as cheesy as the ones you could see in the United States. When you see this clip of the scary, growling radioactive giant turtle from Мутанты (which means Mutant), you'll be forced to concede that the Soviet Union would not ever have lost the cheesy flick arms race. Especially if the cheesy movie war had been fought with giant monster movies. Alas, I don't speak Russian so I can't understand the dialog. But that didn't get in the way of my appreciation at all. I had a genuine moment of cross-cultural understanding. [English Russia] (Thanks, DieR!) More »
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This is probably my favorite giant monster scene ever, just because it shows dragons fighting helicopters. I'm not sure why it's so satisfying, but my heart just leaps when that huge snakey dragon BITES A HELICOPTER. With his MOUTH. Oh, you need back story? This is a clip from D-War, AKA Dragon Wars, which is about some ancient prophesy blah blah blah dude from Roswell stars blah blah DRAGONS FIGHTING IN DOWNTOWN LA. On that cool round US Bank building! First there's the big giant dragon, and then his little buddies come to help out. This is such a great fucking scene. I don't understand why this movie didn't become a blockbuster. [D-War] More »
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All this rampant speculation about the Cloverfield monster has been distraction from the real thrill of the movie: Getting to watch a reenactment of 9/11 without all the scary political implications and the guilt over one's fascination with mass death. Like the disturbing original Gojira from 1954, Cloverfield is a monster movie whose purpose is nakedly therapeutic. New York must recover from the historical trauma of 9/11, and what better way than by containing its reenactment in a completely generic story whose monster-comes-to-town-monster-leaves-town narrative structure is as familiar as the fairy tales we heard as kids? (spoilers ahead) More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=346346&view=rss&microfeed=true A bunch of innocent teens are raving in the forest when . . . they're trampled by a giant woolly mammoth, re-animated after thousands of years in ice by an alien implant that tells it to KILL KILL. Summer Glau, whose powers of acting have been used more wisely in Firefly and upcoming Sarah Connor Chronicles, is the teen whose geek dad wants to save the mammoth because (you guessed it) IT COULD BE THE SCIENTIFIC PHENOMENON OF THE MILLENNIUM. More »
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