Predator Metamorphosis
June the 12th, 1987 saw the first introduction to the cinematic screen of one of the most memorable and well known Movie Monsters to date — El Diablo Cazador de Hombres: the Predator. Since then, the...
View ArticlePeter Benchley’s Creature
Peter Benchley’s Creature is a miniseries based on Peter Benchley’s White Shark — published in 1994. The novel was subsequently re-released with the same title as a tie-in with the film. The producer...
View ArticleKothoga
“As the flashlight beam hits it, MBWUN roars and looks up. Now we see it clearly for the first time. The monster is MASSIVE, putrid, rank. Slit reptilian green eyes are rimmed in red. A ridge of stiff...
View ArticleShe Creature
After the foundation of Stan Winston Productions in 1997, the company’s first project was a group of straight-to-video films for HBO, which developed completely original concepts based on the titles...
View ArticlePredator Metamorphosis – Part I: Predator
With the departure of the original Hunter, the film crew of Predator still needed a Monster to star as the titular antagonist; all the scenes it was to be featured in — including the tension-oozing...
View ArticlePredator Metamorphosis – Part II: Predator 2
The success of the first Predator convinced Twentieth Century Fox to produce a sequel to the film. From a jungle to a metropolis, the new Predator chooses a fictitious future Los Angeles as its...
View ArticleMonster Gallery: Predator 2 (1990)
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View ArticlePumpkinhead
Keep away from Pumpkinhead, Unless you’re tired of living, His enemies are mostly dead, He’s mean and unforgiving, Laugh at him and you’re undone, But in some dreadful fashion, Vengeance, he considers...
View ArticleStarBeast — Part IIa: Aliens
Hans Ruedi Giger, the original Alien designer, did not return to work on Aliens. None of the filmmakers involved in the project contacted the artist, whom at the time was attached as a creature...
View ArticleMonster Gallery: Aliens (1986)
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View ArticleStarBeast — Part IIb: Aliens, the Alien Queen
A PIERCING SHRIEK fills the chamber. She turns. And there it is. A massive silhouette in the mist, the ALIEN QUEEN glowers over her eggs like a great, glistening black Insect-Buddha. What’s bigger and...
View ArticleMonster Gallery: Aliens (1986)
Main Articles: StarBeast — Aliens StarBeast — Aliens, the Alien Queen
View ArticleStarBeast — Aliens, the Alien Queen
A PIERCING SHRIEK fills the chamber. She turns. And there it is. A massive silhouette in the mist, the ALIEN QUEEN glowers over her eggs like a great, glistening black Insect-Buddha. What’s bigger and...
View ArticleCreatures of Pandora
General note: the following article focuses on the six major alien species featured in Avatar, with deliberate excision of the Na’vis — which will not be analyzed on the site. No Neytiri here! James...
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