![]() ![]() Bennick created the character at WGHP in High Point, North Carolina for the station's Shock Theater in the mid-to-late 1960s after his previous persona, Count Shockula, proved less than satisfactory. Paul Bearer, who hosted a different cheap horror film every Saturday afternoon. The films were hosted by Dick Bennick Sr. Splinter (2008)Ī young couple, an escaped convict and his junkie girlfriend find themselves trapped in a Gas Station by a parasitic organism.Creature Feature was a TV horror movie series on WTOG in St. Found footage, but don’t let that put you off. Massive monster, on the rampage in Manhattan. 30 days of night (2007)īased on the comic book miniseries of the same name, 30 days of night is set in an Alaskan town as it enters into a thirty-day long polar night. There’s also Tobe Hooper’s direct to video Crocodile which was released in 2000 if you’re feeling particularly trashy. I’m a sucker for anything that features the description giant man-eating… Lurking in the Mist, some extremely nasty, Lovecraftian surprises wait to greet them! Rogue (2007)Ī group of tourists in Australia are stalked by a giant, man-eating crocodile. Members of a small town in Maine are trapped in a supermarket after an unnatural mist rolls in, enveloping the town. Giant mutated monster emerges from the River Han and wreaks havoc on Seoul.ĭefinitely one of my favourites from this list The Mist (2007) Slither (2006)Ī small town in South Carolina becomes invaded by a malevolent alien parasite. Low budget Horror Comedy set in a local bar in Nevada that is suddenly attacked by monstrous creatures. The Cave (2005) and Creep (2004) are slightly less good variations on this theme, but still worth a watch. If you only watch one film on this list, watch this one! If that wasn’t bad enough, there is something else down there with them. Nightmarishly claustrophobic story of six women trapped in an unexplored cave system when a rockslide blocks their exit route. I actually liked this in an over the top, cheesy, big-budget kind of way (for which I’m a sucker.) The Decent (2005) Where they encounter Kong, a giant gorilla who they capture and take back to New York. King Kong (2005)Īn ambitious filmmaker and his crew hire a ship to travel to the mysterious Skull Island. This homage to the B-movies of the 50s feels like it should have been made in the 90s. Toxic Waste (what else!) causes spiders in a small American mining town to grow to monstrous proportions and attack David Arquette ![]() Lansdale, floats your boat (and really why wouldn’t it) then Bubba Ho-Tep may be just the film for you. If a film featuring Elvis living in a retirement home and fighting off a soul-sucking, cowboy/reanimated Egyptian mummy, with what may or may not be John F Kenedy, based on a novella by Joe R. Vin Diesel fights a planet full of light phobic nasties. Some of the better creature feature offerings from the noughties (in date order) include: Ginger snaps (2000) A couple of Mimic sequels, but none of these make the list. Predator (which I seem to recall was shit but I enjoyed it anyway). There were lots of sequels in the 00’s – Various Anacondas, giant lake-based crocodiles, Sand snakes, Alien vs. Including in my humble opinion one of the best horror movies of all time – The Descent. Still, there were defo some corkers that are worth dusting off every once in a while. I think the naughties were less great for Creature Features, at least of the cheesy, big-budget kind that floats my boat. Found footage, torture porn (blurgh) and bucket loads of excellent Zombie movies!!!! With a number of trends from J-Horror inspired and Spanish-language supernatural chillers to the ultra-violent French New Wave Horror. The decade 2000-2010 was actually a pretty stellar year for horror. ![]()
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