MonsterMiru
Gappa, the Triphibian Monster (1967) NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
大巨獣ガッパ
director: Haruyasu Noguchi actor: Tamio Kawachi / Yōko Yamamoto
other title: Gappa - Il mostro che minaccia il mondo / Gappa - Invasion der fliegenden Bestien
An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child.
June 15, 2026 watched
Big budget kaiju movie full of tropes, but maybe originated some of them?

Watched in #MonsterMiru watch party on Mastodon after #Monsterdon
Kaiju WatchParty 1960s MonsterMiru Japan
Class of 1999 II: The Substitute (1994) IMDb WikiData
Class of 1999 II: The Substitute
other title: Classe 1999 II - Il supplente / Die Klasse von 1999 Teil 2
In the original movie, the cyborg-teachers were all destroyed. Well that's what we thought, but there's one more rogue military robot out there determined to clean up the education system.
Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992) WikiData NeoDB IMDb TMDB
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
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.
They Came from Beyond Space (1967) IMDb WikiData
They Came from Beyond Space
other title: La morte scarlatta viene dallo spazio / Sie kamen von jenseits des Weltraums
When meteors in a curious V-formation crash on a Cornwall field, an alien force possesses several scientists and infects bystanders with a deadly disease. Shielded from the meteor's influence by a metal plate in his head, Dr Curtis Temple discovers that an alien race on the moon seeks to use the manipulated geniuses for seemingly nefarious purposes. But, as he learns more about the invaders, they may not be as evil as initially thought.
Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967) IMDb WikiData
대괴수 용가리
director: Kim Kee-duk actor: Oh Yeong-il / Nam Jeong-im
other title: Yongary il più grande mostro / Yongary - Das Monster aus der Tiefe
Earthquakes in central Korea turn out to be the work of Yongary, a prehistoric gasoline-eating reptile that soon goes on a rampage through Seoul.
Hercules Returns (1993) IMDb WikiData
Hercules Returns
director: David Parker actor: David Argue / Michael Carman
other title: O Retorno de Hércules
When Brad gets fired from his job, he goes to reopen an old cinema, he enlists his frends to help him show the last film the cinema aired before it closed... Only they don't know, the film is in Italian. With everyone sitting ready they begin to dub the movie... on the fly!
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988) IMDb TMDB
Earth Girls Are Easy
director: Julien Temple actor: Geena Davis / Jeff Goldblum
other title: Le ragazze della Terra sono facili / Zebo, der dritte aus der Sternenmitte
In this musical comedy, Valerie is dealing with her philandering fiancé, Ted, when she finds that a trio of aliens have crashed their spaceship into her swimming pool. Once the furry beings are shaved at her girlfriend's salon, the women discover three handsome men underneath. After absorbing the native culture via television, the spacemen are ready to hit the dating scene in 1980s Los Angeles.
Ultraman (1966) Douban NeoDB TMDB
ウルトラマン Season 1 part of TV Series: Ultraman
director: Akio Jissoji / Hajime Tsuburaya actor: Bin Furuya / Susumu Kurobe
Ultraman is a Japanese tokusatsu science fiction television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions. It is a follow-up to Ultra Q, though not technically a sequel or spin-off. Tsuburaya Productions produced 39 episodes (40, counting the pre-premiere special) that aired on Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) and its affiliate stations from July 17, 1966, to April 9, 1967. Its premiere topped the average rating set by Ultra Q and kept climbing each week, marking the show as a success.
Son of Dracula (1974) WikiData TMDB IMDb
Son of Dracula
director: Freddie Francis actor: Harry Nilsson / Ringo Starr
other title: Il figlio di Dracula / Young Dracula (the BLOOD-SUCKER with a BEAT!)
Due to be crowned King of the Netherworld by his mentor Merlin the Magician, Count Downe — son of Dracula — falls in love with beautiful mortal Amber and finds himself in conflict with Baron Frankenstein, who is vying for the same honourary title.
April 13, 2026 watched
Meandering mess with a few musical moments of interest. Ringo Starr in particular underwhelms as Merlin.

Watched in #MonsterMiru watch party on Mastodon after #Monsterdon
Comedy FreddieJones RingoStarr UK WatchParty
Kazaam (1996) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Kazaam
director: Paul Michael Glaser actor: Shaquille O'Neal / Francis Capra
other title: Kazaam - il gigante rap / Kazaam - Der Geist aus der Flasche
When Max fools a gang of local toughs, he finds himself in big trouble. Fleeing from the thugs, Max runs into an old warehouse and bumps into a boom box. By doing that, he manages to release Kazaam, a genie who has been held captive for thousands of years.
March 23, 2026 watched
"Shaq Raps!" Not as well known a phrase in the history of cinema as "Garbo Speaks!" but one far more horrifying to those who have seen this film!

Watched in the #MonsterMiru watch party after #Monsterdon on Mastodon.
AllyWalker FrancisCapra USA Comedy PaulMichaelGlaser
Evil of Dracula (1974) TMDB IMDb WikiData
血を吸う薔薇
director: Michio Yamamoto actor: Toshio Kurosawa / Mariko Mochizuki
other title: La rosa che succhia il sangue / Chi o suu bara
A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a dark secret.
The Vampire Doll (1970) TMDB IMDb WikiData
幽霊屋敷の恐怖 血を吸う人形
director: Michio Yamamoto actor: Kayo Matsuo / Akira Nakao
other title: A Noite do Vampiro / Legacy of Dracula
A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but their search becomes perilous when they uncover a gruesome family history.
Dec. 8, 2025 watched
Spookier than what preceded it (Attack of the Puppet People) in #Monsterdon.

Watched on #MonsterMiru #WatchParty after #Monsterdon on Mastodon
Horror 1970s Monster WatchParty Vampire
Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983) TMDB NeoDB WikiData IMDb Douban
里見八犬伝
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Hiroko Yakushimaru / Hiroyuki Sanada
other title: Die Legende von den acht Samurai / La Légende des huit samouraïs
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Shizu. In the process of trying to capture her, the clan murders her entire family, but Princess Shizu escapes their clutches. She enlists the aid of eight samurai warriors, possessors of powerful magic crystal, led by Dosetsu (Sonny Chiba!) to help rescue the remaining members of her court and revenge her family. Along the way, they must fight undead warriors, evil spirits, poisonous beauties and a giant centipede.
The X from Outer Space (1967) TMDB IMDb WikiData
宇宙大怪獣ギララ
director: Kazui Nihonmatsu actor: Shunya Wazaki / Itoko Harada
other title: Odissea sulla Terra / Guila - Frankensteins Teufelsei
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with unusual spores. Taking one of the specimens back to earth, it soon develops and grows into a giant chicken-lizard-alien monster that tramples Japan.
Nov. 24, 2025 watched
Space gorditas, space spores, space bossa nova: this movie's got it all!

Watched in #MonsterMiru #WatchParty on Mastodon after #Monsterdon
Japan SciFi WatchParty Kaiju 1960s
Alligator 2: The Mutation (1991) IMDb WikiData
Alligator 2: The Mutation
director: Jon Hess actor: Joseph Bologna / Dee Wallace
other title: Alligator 2 - Die Mutation / Alligator 2 - The Mutation
A giant mutated alligator runs riot in a small town after the sewer system washes it into a lake.
Nov. 17, 2025 watched
Sequel quite dull & slow in comparison to the first film

Watched in #MonsterMiru #WatchParty after #Monsterdon on Mastodon
USA RichardLynch Monster Alligator 1990s
Fright Night Part 2 (1988) NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Fright Night Part 2
director: Tommy Lee Wallace actor: Roddy McDowall / William Ragsdale
other title: Ammazzavampiri 2 / Gysertimen 2
After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandridge was a serial killer posing as a vampire. But when Regine, a mysterious actress and her entourage move into Peter Vincent's apartment block, the nightmare starts again - and this time it's personal!
Magic Crystal (1986) NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
魔翡翠
director: Wong Jing actor: Cynthia Rothrock / Andy Lau
other title: El cristal mágico / The Magic Crystal
Archaeologist Shum finds an antique jade with supernatural power in Greece. The stone is wanted both by KGB's agent Karoff and the Interpol. Shum asks his friend Nike for help. However, Shum is finally caught by KGB but the jade is slipped into the hands of a boy called Pan.