Not many giant monster movies feel essentially perfect, but classics like Jaws, King Kong (1933), and the original Godzilla might well be.

It’s been at least a hundred years since filmmakers realized monsters were cool, especially those of the giant variety, with 1925’s The Lost World being an early and definitive monster movie. Well, it ...

Monster movies that are also Westerns are rare, but not unheard of, as the likes of Nope, From Dusk till Dawn, and The White ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Universal Monsters movies are the films that helped build the framework of horror, and despite ...

But they weren’t all winners. In fact, quite a few ’50s monster movies were extremely rough around the edges. But, of those lesser films, some of them continue to hold a compulsively watchable charm.