I’m glad to see the back end of February. Not because I didn’t enjoy Monster Awareness Month–in fact, I’d say it was the only thing that made February tolerable–but because, as usual, February wasn’t very kind to me in any other way. That said, I did manage to put a…

So, today Monster Awareness Month draws to a close. It’s been a ride, and I hope everyone enjoyed it. If you’ve only been following along here, definitely go back and check out the Monster Awareness Month website, because there are some great pieces up there. I’m hoping that this’ll only…

We’re getting into the home stretch here. In the meantime, my From Strange & Distant Shores column on The Abominable Snowman went live and my good friend and former employer Jeff Owens wrote a long and impassioned paen to Marvel comics monsters here. Now, on to the movies: Day 21:…

Day 19: Hellraiser (1987) Here’s another movie about which there’s not much left to add, but I will say that if I were choosing Clive Barker movies to represent Monster Awareness Month, I’d likely have chosen Nightbreed instead. Not that Nightbreed is any better than Hellraiser, it just seems more…

Day 12 & 13: Mothra vs Godzilla (1964) & Destroy All Monsters (1968) I passed on all the Godzilla movies that were part of Monster Awareness Month because I’d already had my fill of them when I did my Godzilla movie marathon for Innsmouth Free Press, and found that they…

I’ve had a sort of rough couple of days, so there’s been a maybe longer than usual delay here, and my heart may not be entirely in it, but I have been watching movies for Monster Awareness Month when I could, and I think these should bring us pretty close…