Tag: Peggie Castle

• Big Bugs Giant monsters Monsters

  

  Beginning of the End

  Radiation is once again to blame as giant grasshoppers devour Chicago in Bert I. Gordon’s 1957 cult classic. While inept in most departments, it boasts a decent cast and is a lot of fun to watch. 4/10.

  December 10, 2023
• Dystopia Futurism

  

  Invasion, U.S.A.

  Five American bar patrons who oppose the universal draft experience what a nuclear-fuelled invasion by the Soviet Union would entail. If one film should exemplify the hysterical red scare of the fifties, it is this low-budget propaganda piece from 1952.

  December 29, 2020