Tag: Mikel Conrad

• Apocalypse Giant monsters Monsters Prehistoric monsters

  

  Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

  Adding new footage to “Americanize” a foreign film rarely works well. One of the exceptions is the 1956 version of Godzilla, which handles the re-edit tactfully and packs a punch that is almost equal to that of the 1954 original. 7/10

  April 25, 2022
• Giant monsters Lost world Monsters Prehistoric monsters

  

  Untamed Women

  A hapless US bomber crew during WWII crash land on an island inhabited by a tribe of glamour girls in leather skirts, and dinosaur stock footage from One Million B.C. The result in this 1951 lost world potboiler is surprisingly dull. 1/10

  December 7, 2020
• Future technology Futurism

  

  The Flying Saucer

  Despite the viral marketing, the first American UFO warning turns out to be a false alarm. Alien visitors are notably absent from The Flying Saucer (1950), which plays like low-budget cold war spy serial interlaced with a promotional film for the Alaskan outback. 1/10

  March 27, 2020