Horror
Jaws 2 (1978) IMDb TMDB WikiData NeoDB Douban Skybridge
Jaws 2
4.2 (5 ratings) director: Jeannot Szwarc actor: Roy Scheider / Lorraine Gary
other title: Lo squalo 2 / Dødens gab 2
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
July 11, 2026 watched
Reminds me of the old Russian joke. Two old friends bump into each other in December. One asks: "How was your year?" The other replies. "So-so. Worse than last year, but better than the next!"

This entry in the Jaws franchise was definitely not as good as the 1st one, but will better than the ones to come! :D

Rewatched (for the first time in decades) in "Jaws July" in the #FridayThrillerClub watch party on Mastodon.
FridayThrillerClub 1970s Horror Sequel Jaws
Weapons (2025) TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban Skybridge WikiData
Weapons
6.8 (49 ratings) director: Zach Cregger actor: Julia Garner / Josh Brolin
other title: Hora do Desaparecimento / Weapons - Die Stunde des Verschwindens
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
301/302 (1995) IMDb WikiData TMDB
삼공일 삼공이
director: Park Cheol-su actor: Pang Eun-jin / Hwang Shin-hye
other title: 301, 302 / 삼공일 삼공이
Two obsessive-compulsives, a chef and an anorexic writer, are neighbors in an apartment building. The chef (301) tries to entice her neighbor to eat with fabulous meals. The writer (302) refuses to eat, and this refusal begins a turbulent relationship that forces both women to delve into their pasts of torment.
Circle of Bones (2021) IMDb
Circle of Bones
director: Vincent Soberano actor: Sarah Chang / Marella Torre
Filipino police investigating a case involving cult massacres and alleged child sacrifices suspect that a former United States FBI agent living in seclusion in an island paradise may be the key to solving this macabre case.
Son of Monster Mash Goodreads Google Books
author: Mark Voger publishing house: TwoMorrows Publishing 2026 - 11
All new! All grue!

It's the long-awaited sequel to author/designer Mark Voger's Rondo Award-winning book Monster Mash: The Creepy, Kooky Monster Craze in America 1957-1972 which redefined Monster Kid fandom with a visually immersive graphic approach.

This companion book revisits the period, while examining its literary and cinematic roots of its fictional precedents (Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," Bram Stoker's "Dracula"); early silent films ("Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," "Nosferatu"); the golden age of monster movies (with such stars as Lon Chaney Sr., Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and Chaney Jr.); the 3-D and teenage monster movie trends; the Edgar Allan Poe adaptations and Hammer Studios releases of the period; the monsters of Sixties TV; the eye-popping toys, memorabilia and comics; and the aftermath of the influential Monster Craze. It features interviews with filmmakers such as Ray Harryhausen ("20 Million Miles to Earth"), Roger Corman ("The Pit and the Pendulum") and Sidney Pink ("Reptilicus"), and stars like Gloria Stuart ("The Invisible Man"), Ricou Browning ("Creature From the Black Lagoon"), Haruo Nakajima ("Godzilla"), Jonathan Haze ("Little Shop of Horrors"), Hazel Court ("Curse of Frankenstein"), Kathryn Leigh Scott ("House of Dark Shadows"), Robert Quarry ("Count Yorga, Vampire") and many others.

No monster fan should be without this treasure trove of terror!
Earth vs. the Spider (1958) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Earth vs. the Spider
director: Bert I. Gordon actor: Ed Kemmer / June Kenney
other title: La vendetta del ragno nero / Die Rache der schwarzen Spinne
Teenagers from a small town and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider, living in a cave nearby and getting hungry.
July 6, 2026 watched
For what it is, it wasn't too bad!

I watched it *before* the #Monsterdon watch party because of the World Cup match.
Kaiju BertIGordon 1950s USA Spider
Jaws (1975) NeoDB Douban DeaDvey's Reviews IMDb Skybridge TMDB
Jaws
7.9 (36 ratings) director: Steven Spielberg actor: Roy Scheider / Robert Shaw
other title: Lo squalo / Dødens gab
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled hunter embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again.
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) IMDb Douban WikiData TMDB
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
director: Terence Fisher actor: Anton Diffring / Hazel Court
other title: L'uomo che ingannò la morte / Den Tod überlistet
Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Bonner looks about 40; he's really 104 years old. But people are starting to get suspicious, and he may not make 200.
The Tingler (1959) TMDB IMDb
The Tingler
director: William Castle actor: Vincent Price / Philip Coolidge
other title: Il mostro di sangue / Força Diabólica
A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.
House of the Long Shadows (1983) IMDb TMDB WikiData
House of the Long Shadows
director: Pete Walker actor: Vincent Price / Christopher Lee
other title: La casa delle ombre lunghe / Huset med de lange skygger
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel like 'Wuthering Heights' in 24 hours. However, upon his arrival he discovers that the apparently empty manor has several rather odd inhabitants.
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks.
June 18, 2026 to watch Trigger: going to watch William Castle's horror The Tingler (1959) in #ReMonsterdon watch party on Sunday 21 June 2026
Documentary 2000s Horror WilliamCastle
The Giant Claw (1957) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Giant Claw
director: Fred F. Sears actor: Jeff Morrow / Mara Corday
other title: Il mostro dei cieli / O Ataque Vem do Polo
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.
Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Zombi 2
7.0 (5 ratings) director: Lucio Fulci actor: Tisa Farrow / Ian McCulloch
other title: Zombi 2 / Woodoo - Rædslernes Grønne Ø
After an abandoned boat sails into New York harbor with a zombie aboard, a reporter teams up with the daughter of the boat's missing owner to investigate the island where he was last seen conducting research—the site of an alleged zombie outbreak.
Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992) NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
Waxwork II: Lost in Time
other title: Waxwork 2 - Bentornati al museo delle cere / Spaceshift
The survivors of the first Waxwork must use a portal through time to defeat the evil that has followed them and turned their lives upside down.
June 1, 2026 watched
Riffs on multiple films & genres, veering from slapstick to homage. Gets bogged down for too long in mediaeval fantasy before picking up pace again. Somehow managed to get a ream of cameos ranging from Bruce Campbell to John Ireland.

Closes with a hiphop theme, as was de rigeur for early 90s Hollywood, but this one's a banger from the L.A. Posse. Suck it, hataz!

Watched in #MonsterMiru watch party after #Monsterdon on Mastodon.
Horror 1990s Comedy Parody HorrorSciFi
Seedpeople (1992) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Seedpeople
director: Peter Manoogian actor: Sam Hennings / Andrea Roth
other title: Seedpeople: Alla Radice del Male / Sway
The citizens of Comet Valley are being taken over by seeds from an alien plant that has taken root there. A sheriff investigates the strange goings-on.
June 1, 2026 watched
Low quality clone of Invasion of the Body Snatchers set in 90s Denim Valley, brought to you by Charles Band & Full Moon Pictures.

Watched in #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
Horror FullMoon 1990s Monsterdon SciFi
Planet of the Vampires (1965) IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
Terrore nello spazio
director: Mario Bava actor: Barry Sullivan / Norma Bengell
other title: Terrore nello spazio / Planet der Vampire
After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.
June 1, 2026 watched
Spooky & gorgeous. No, not me; the film, silly!

And I can see why people say it was an influence on Alien (1979).

Watched in the #ReMonsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
SciFi ReMonsterdon WatchParty HorrorSciFi USA
Waxwork (1988) TMDB Douban IMDb
Waxwork
other title: Reise zurück in der Zeit / 蜡像
Wealthy slacker college student Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum which displays 18 of the most evil men of all time. After his ex-girlfriend and another friend disappear, Mark becomes suspicious.