GODZILLA MINUS ONE ***** Japan / USA 2023 Dir: Takashi Yamazaki. 125 mins The last Godzilla films I saw in a theatre were Godzilla Vs. the Thing (1964) with King Kong Vs. Godzilla (1962), not the CGI remake. I stuffed myself with popcorn with enough salt for a month and actual butter along with some watered-down lemonade and loved it. I had no idea what I was watching but it was fun, and stuff got wrecked by giant monsters. Fast forward to a much older, perhaps not wiser modern theatre and the magnificent new Godzilla Minus One (2023) showing on…
Author: Terry Sherwood
Terry Sherwood
Terry Sherwood Born in Ottawa Ontario, Canada; Terry is a "Monster kid ', film fan and popular culture person. Once worked in television as a commercial writer/ Director. Writer of the SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET site covering aspects of the Horror Genre from Books, Comics, to Film old and new. He has previously written for WE BELONG DEAD and MONSTERMANIA magazines, The Spooky Isle UK website, Horror hound and Turner Classic Movies. Published Book of own writings titled SCREEN AND SCREEN AGAIN: ESSAYS ON THE HORROR FILM on amazon world wide plus contributed to other genre books. Chaired numerous convention panel discussions on Horror and Comics Terry is member of The Horror Writers Association and Dracula Society in U.K.
My top Fifty British Horror films (Irish, Wales and Scottish not included. Not my instructions) are in no particular order. Bit bigger than Inhotep’s iN HO TOP TEN from years ago in Famous Monsters Of Filmland magazine or was that centuries? The years are but gulps of tana leaf tea and shuffling about musty crypts. Perhaps these will engender a baker’s dozen of shudders in you. A baker’s dozen is thirteen, a most unlucky number at a certain dinner table. Love to know comments as these will not be nailed to a church door. Remember this holiday season ‘Nothing ever…
NANDOR FODOR AND THE TALKING MONGOOSE **** UK 2023 Dir: Adam Sigal. 96 mins Transport yourself back to 1930s England and an interesting real-life mystery of Gef (pronounced “Jeff”) a talking mongoose. This is not an absurdist comedy although some may argue that it fits more into the realm of satire. Delve into Nandor Fodor And The Talking Mongoose from writer/Director Adam Sigal. Based on a true event on the Isle of Man in which a local family in 1935, Hungarian-American parapsychologist Nandor Fodor began his investigation. A rural family said they had been contacted by an entity at their…
FCK’N NUTS *** USA 2023 Dir: Sam Fox. 11 mins This short blast of Giallo and absurdity lives up to the title of Fck’n Nuts (2023). It’s not that crazy when you think that a certain Marvel Franchise has a talking tree person and animals. The first thing you notice in the blast of colors you get is reminiscent of the Adam West/Batman television series. The short follows Sandy (Maddie Nichols) dressed like she fell out of Barbie (2023) or the ‘little pale girl’ from the beginning of Terrifier 2 (2022) depending on how you look at it. She reluctantly…
HAUNTING OF THE QUEEN MARY *** USA / UK 2023 Dir: Gary Shore. 125 mins The ocean has given us such fun horror as personal favourite Death Ship (1980), Ghost Ship (2002), the witty if not silly Sharknado series, Deep Blue Sea (1999), Blood Vessel (2019) and countless others. Joining the folk who travel the briny deep you have Haunting Of The Queen Mary (2023) which comes across as a combination of elements in the television series American Horror Story: Hotel and the BioShock game franchise. The film has a slightly confusing plot that unfolds across two timelines with some…