This science fiction creature feature was directed by Kenneth G. (THE SPLIT) Crane, written by Louis (I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE) Vittes and Endre Bohem, and stars Jim (THE DAY TIME ENDED) Davis, Robert (I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF) Griffin, Joel Fluellen, Barbara Turner and Eduardo Ciannelli. The story centres on scientists, armed with grenades, trekking across Africa to find the wasps from a failed rocket experiment… that have turned into mutated giants! The flick features lots of footslogging scenes. There’s so much walking! These sequences feature the main characters wearing...…This science fiction creature feature was directed by Kenneth G. (THE SPLIT) Crane, written by Louis (I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE) Vittes and Endre Bohem, and stars Jim (THE DAY TIME ENDED) Davis, Robert (I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF) Griffin, Joel Fluellen, Barbara Turner and Eduardo Ciannelli. The story centres on scientists, armed with grenades, trekking across Africa to find the wasps from a failed rocket experiment… that have turned into mutated giants! The flick features lots of footslogging scenes. There’s so much walking! These sequences feature the main characters wearing...WW…

Directed by Jeffrey Lau, this fantasy-action-comedy stars Stephen Chow, Man-Tat Ng, Yammie Lam, Karen Mok and Kar-Ying Law. Joker (Chow), the rather inept leader of a gang of robbers, is oblivious to the fact that he is actually the Monkey King, who was punished for his bad behaviour and turned into a human 500 years earlier. The movie begins rather abruptly, as if some of the introduction to this sequence got trimmed down too much, showing the Monkey King disobeying his master, Longevity Monk, and being swiftly chastised for his misdeeds by Guanyin, the Goddess of Happiness. The narrative...…Directed by Jeffrey Lau, this fantasy-action-comedy stars Stephen Chow, Man-Tat Ng, Yammie Lam, Karen Mok and Kar-Ying Law. Joker (Chow), the rather inept leader of a gang of robbers, is oblivious to the fact that he is actually the Monkey King, who was punished for his bad behaviour and turned into a human 500 years earlier. The movie begins rather abruptly, as if some of the introduction to this sequence got trimmed down too much, showing the Monkey King disobeying his master, Longevity Monk, and being swiftly chastised for his misdeeds by Guanyin, the Goddess of Happiness. The narrative...WW…

Here’s a selection of colourful, incident-filled paintings that the American artist George Wilson (1921 – 1999) produced for such titles as Gold Key’s STAR TREK and TUROK SON OF STONE comics. As a kid I owned a SPACE FAMILY ROBINSON annual that sported a wonderful George Wilson cover: its depiction of huge flying beetles attacking the Robinson family really made me eager to read the stories inside! George Wilson was extremely prolific, so the examples below are just a taste of the kind of imaginative, eye-catching cover paintings he created over the years. Let’s start with some SPACE FAMILY...…Here’s a selection of colourful, incident-filled paintings that the American artist George Wilson (1921 – 1999) produced for such titles as Gold Key’s STAR TREK and TUROK SON OF STONE comics. As a kid I owned a SPACE FAMILY ROBINSON annual that sported a wonderful George Wilson cover: its depiction of huge flying beetles attacking the Robinson family really made me eager to read the stories inside! George Wilson was extremely prolific, so the examples below are just a taste of the kind of imaginative, eye-catching cover paintings he created over the years. Let’s start with some SPACE FAMILY...WW…

IFD Film Arts was a Hong Kong film studio originally created by producer Joseph Lai after he split from Asso Asia Films. IFD made some martial arts action classics like THE MAGNIFICENT, DRAGON ON FIRE and THE DRAGON THE HERO, but what I want to chat about now are some of the other, madder, monster-oriented films that are linked to the IFD film catalogue – this is the Monster Zone blog, after all!(Note: a bunch of films mentioned here, that are now part of the IFD catalogue, were made by Filmark international Ltd). IFD made films in many other genres beyond kung fu flicks, including war,...…IFD Film Arts was a Hong Kong film studio originally created by producer Joseph Lai after he split from Asso Asia Films. IFD made some martial arts action classics like THE MAGNIFICENT, DRAGON ON FIRE and THE DRAGON THE HERO, but what I want to chat about now are some of the other, madder, monster-oriented films that are linked to the IFD film catalogue – this is the Monster Zone blog, after all!(Note: a bunch of films mentioned here, that are now part of the IFD catalogue, were made by Filmark international Ltd). IFD made films in many other genres beyond kung fu flicks, including war,...WW…

Roger Dicken is the man behind many cinematic beasts: he sculpted some of the stop-motion prehistoric creatures for Hammer’s WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH (1970), turned Wanda Ventham into a giant Death’s Head Moth in THE BLOOD BEAST TERROR (1968), constructed the big, blood-dribbling bats for SCARS OF DRACULA (1970), and for Amicus he provided the rod puppet dinosaurs for THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT (1974). He gave us a variety of mutant monsters in WARLORDS OF ATLANTIS (1978) and then, in 1979, he created the famous, groundbreaking facehugger and chestburster lifeforms for ALIEN. I was...…Roger Dicken is the man behind many cinematic beasts: he sculpted some of the stop-motion prehistoric creatures for Hammer’s WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH (1970), turned Wanda Ventham into a giant Death’s Head Moth in THE BLOOD BEAST TERROR (1968), constructed the big, blood-dribbling bats for SCARS OF DRACULA (1970), and for Amicus he provided the rod puppet dinosaurs for THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT (1974). He gave us a variety of mutant monsters in WARLORDS OF ATLANTIS (1978) and then, in 1979, he created the famous, groundbreaking facehugger and chestburster lifeforms for ALIEN. I was...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/health-oklahoma-coronavirus-pandemic-8162642d96adcfc3b4eb63f37e70b41cClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/health-oklahoma-coronavirus-pandemic-8162642d96adcfc3b4eb63f37e70b41cClick to copyRelated topicsOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The White House Coronavirus Task Force has again recommended a statewide mask mandate for Oklahoma amid a surge of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations that includes an increase of almost 1,000 cases per day during the past seven days.Data from Johns Hopkins University on Thursday shows Oklahoma’s seven-day rolling average of new...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/health-oklahoma-coronavirus-pandemic-8162642d96adcfc3b4eb63f37e70b41cClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/health-oklahoma-coronavirus-pandemic-8162642d96adcfc3b4eb63f37e70b41cClick to copyRelated topicsOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The White House Coronavirus Task Force has again recommended a statewide mask mandate for Oklahoma amid a surge of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations that includes an increase of almost 1,000 cases per day during the past seven days.Data from Johns Hopkins University on Thursday shows Oklahoma’s seven-day rolling average of new...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/us-news-tulsa-oklahoma-violence-massacres-36ffa98643b3f8dbb8c0bf7c7488b4f0Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/us-news-tulsa-oklahoma-violence-massacres-36ffa98643b3f8dbb8c0bf7c7488b4f0Click to copyRelated topicsOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A second excavation begins Monday at a cemetery in an effort to find and identify victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and shed light on violence that left hundreds dead and decimated an area that was once a cultural and economic mecca for African Americans.“I realize we can tell this story the way it needs to be told,...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/us-news-tulsa-oklahoma-violence-massacres-36ffa98643b3f8dbb8c0bf7c7488b4f0Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/us-news-tulsa-oklahoma-violence-massacres-36ffa98643b3f8dbb8c0bf7c7488b4f0Click to copyRelated topicsOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A second excavation begins Monday at a cemetery in an effort to find and identify victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and shed light on violence that left hundreds dead and decimated an area that was once a cultural and economic mecca for African Americans.“I realize we can tell this story the way it needs to be told,...WW…