Gojira (English title: Godzilla) Directed by Ishirô Honda Written by Ishirô Honda and Shigeru Kayama Japan, 1954 Think of films such A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Frankenstein, Dracula, King Kong . Each is a horror film featuring a monster or a killer. Each was also made several decades ago. Despite this, people still watch, …
To investigate the origins of the horror film, it is necessary to discuss the German expressionism movement of the 1920s in films such as Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Der Golem. This time around a genre whose peak was the 1950s and 60s is up for discussion in the creature feature. There is …
Warner Bros. & Legendary Pictures has finally found a director for their American Godzilla movie, and who better than Gareth Edwards, the director of last year’s sci-fi hit Monsters. According to Heat Vision, Edwards will work with a yet-to-be-named writer in developing the script. Legendary Pictures gathered the rights to the project back in March …
Science fiction, horror, monsters on the loose – they’ve been a part of the movies almost since the beginning of the medium. Georges Melies famously turned out a vaudeville-flavored adaptation of Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon in 1904, the Edison company produced the first of a nearly century-long parade of film (and later …