I t’s hard to single out one decade as being the best in the history of monster movies, but it’s probably not the 1980s. The 1990s had Jurassic Park, the 1970s had Jaws, the 1950s had the ...

Ask most horror fans about the genre’s best decade, and the overwhelming majority will likely agree that it’s the 1980s. With the VHS boom raising the demand for low-budget scary fare and the ...

First Appeared: 1993 After the 1980s used the movie monster to kill and maim, the early 1990s saw the return of the more adventurous-type of monster with Spielberg’s Jurassic Park.

Chris Hemsworth (Red Dawn), Cameron Diaz (Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle) and Joel Kinnaman (RoboCop) have starred in ill-fated remakes of bad 1980s movies. Everett Collection As the saying goes ...

Some of the best monster movies in history have flown completely under the radar and deserve much more attention.

James Egan James Egan has been with Whatculture for five years and prominently works on Horror, Film, and Video Games. He's written over 80 books including 1000 Facts about Horror Movies Vol. 1-3 ...

The 80s kid group line-up. As I said, Monster Squad is very much a stereotypical 80s kids’ film, particularly when you’re dealing with a group of pre-teen boys. The films of the 80s dictated ...

I can’t share my full review until tomorrow due to an embargo, but Cocaine Bear is a strong throwback to the era of bloody 80s monster movies. Obviously not for the kiddos or squeamish, but for ...

Cinephiles love to debate their favorite cinematic decades and will find plenty of evidence to back up their claims. But when it comes to the weirdest ten-year run in movies, the 1980s are the ...

Few horror or fantasy movies are as memorable as those that introduce us to a never-before-seen creature. Or, in the case of classic monster archetypes, those that introduce us to age-old fabled ...

When I discovered that there was a 1980s monster movie on Showtime called Q: The Winged Serpent, my immediate thought was, “That movie sounds like it owns.” I imagined a crazy gothic synth ...