TCM Monster Movie Marathon

[Cerebus]

Did anyone see the mini monster movie marathon on TCM, Thursday June 6th?

The Bride of Frankenstein
Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956)
Creature From the Black Lagoon
King Kong (1933)

Why don't they do this more often?

BTW, Universal has greenlit a remake of Creature From the Black Lagoon. It will be titled simply, The Black Lagoon.

Any thoughts?

[D.D. Wookie]

There have been rumblings about a remake of Black Lagoon since the late 80's when John Carpenter was going to do it.  I like to think he would have done a good job, but I don't think it needs to be done.  The original creature design was and still is frigging amazing and I'm pretty sure any attempts at 'modernizing' it will be asinine at best.

[Cerebus]

There have been rumblings about a remake of Black Lagoon since the late 80's when John Carpenter was going to do it.  I like to think he would have done a good job, but I don't think it needs to be done.  The original creature design was and still is frigging amazing and I'm pretty sure any attempts at 'modernizing' it will be asinine at best.

Nothing beats those underwater scenes where he's swimming upside-down, mirroring Adam's swim strokes. Don't know how you can get a visual better than that. And in-color may make it look fake rather than better. Although they did a nice job in Hellboy with that fish-man character. 

[Phantom Stranger]

Tonight (July 11th) Turner Classic Movies will be paying tribute to the late , (and truly) great Ray Harryhausen with a five movie  marathon starting at 5:00pm.

[McDougals House of Horror]

A great feature of TCM that makes even skeleton warriors dance -- no commercials!

[zombiehorror]

5pm pst, 7pm cst...you can fill in the rest!


  7:00 PM Jason And The Argonauts (1963)
  9:00 PM Golden Voyage Of Sinbad, The (1973)
11:00 PM Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger (1977)
  1:00 AM Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers (1956)
  2:30 AM Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, The (1953)

[Cerebus]

Awesome line up. Jason and the Argonauts was my fave film for years when I was a kid. I used to get good grades in world history because of my reports on Greek Mythology and Jason & the Argos in particular.

[Mord]

No Creature remake for me. They got it right the first time.

[marsattacks666]

Thank you for the updated post.

[Scatter]

No Creature remake for me. They got it right the first time.

Amen brother.

[Cerebus]

A great feature of TCM that makes even skeleton warriors dance -- no commercials!

Hey McDougal,
Where is that photo from? I have to visit

[McDougals House of Horror]

On any posted photo you can right click on it and get the URL address in "Properties". I don't know about the website, I just grabbed the cool photo in a Google search.

[Cerebus]

Tonight (July 11th) Turner Classic Movies will be paying tribute to the late , (and truly) great Ray Harryhausen with a five movie  marathon starting at 5:00pm.

caught Eye if the Tiger and Earth vs.. but fell asleep before 20,000 Fathoms started. Luckily I have them all on DVD and all of them have great special features, making of, interviews with Harryhausen & Ray Bradbury, trailers, the dynamation reel, etc.

[McDougals House of Horror]

caught Eye if the Tiger and Earth vs.. but fell asleep before 20,000 Fathoms started. Luckily I have them all on DVD and all of them have great special features, making of, interviews with Harryhausen & Ray Bradbury, trailers, the dynamation reel, etc.

"Eye of the Tiger" is my least favorite of all of Ray's films -- the creatures just aren't very interesting (except, of course, Jane Seymour)...

[Mord]

Good enough for me!