#atomic horror

[basementofthebizarre]

💧 The H-Man: Tokyo's Gooiest Gangster Flick! 🌃

Before the giant monsters of Toho stomped their way through every major city, director Ishirō Honda was creating terrors of a different kind. He was the genius behind Godzilla. In 1958, he brought audiences a much sloppier kind of terror with The H-Man (Bijo to Ekitai-ningen). This film blends a gritty post-war crime thriller with chilling atomic-age horror. It proves that sometimes, the scariest…

💧 The H-Man: Tokyo's Gooiest Gangster Flick! 🌃

[catchinghorrors]

Whatever your feelings are about Primitive War, the original author getting upset at the movie killing off his favorite war criminal is objectively hilarious.

[catchinghorrors]

Jurassic World: Rebirth is The Force Awakens of the series.

A back-to-basics movie from the screenwriter of the best-received entry in the franchise, competent at what it does but plays it too safe to be truly satisfying.

My hope is that the next entry will be more like The Last Jedi: taking a big swing and coming out with a flawed masterpiece that pisses off half the fanbase.

[catchinghorrors]

Closed out 2023 by showing my friends Godzilla Minus One and Malignant

Both amazing movies for entirely different reasons*

*although one thing they have in common is turbo-charged cancer beasts

[vintagegeekculture]

Al Feldstein, 1951.

[vintagegeekculture]

The Mayfair Theater Billboard, 1953-54, New York. 

[vintagegeekculture]

Technical cutaway diagram of the cyclotram digging machine used in “Unknown World” (1951).

[vintagegeekculture]

“The Black Scorpion” (1957)