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Thunder of Gigantic Serpent (1988) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Thunder of Gigantic Serpent
director: Lee Chiu actor: Pierre Kirby / Edowan Bersma …
other title: Terror Serpent
A secret formula that can cause plants and animals to expand a thousand-fold in size is stolen by a terrorist group. During a wild chase and shoot-out, the formula is lost. It's found by a little girl who accidently gives the formula to her pet snake. After the snake grows to an immense size, it follows and protects her. When the terrorists go after the girl, the snake begins destroying everything in its path.

Hong Kong cut and paste edit of the 1987 Taiwanese film "大蛇王" (King of Snake) with new scenes.
June 29, 2026 watched
Take a Taiwanese monster film, splice in some pointless white guys, Australian flags & Tangerine Dream, & you've got Thunder of Gigantic Serpent!

Watched in #MonsterMiru watch party after #Monsterdon on Mastodon.
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Have Sword, Will Travel (1969)
保鏢
director: Chang Cheh actor: David Chiang Da-Wei / Ti Lung …
other title: Le invincibili spade delle tigri volanti / Die Todespagode des gelben Tigers …
Ying Ke-Feng, head of Peerless Manor, is an expert swordsman whose escort business transports 200,000 taels of silver to the capital each year. This year, however, he is afflicted with an infirmity that renders him unable to use his sword.
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Roadgames (1981) IMDb TMDB
Roadgames
director: Richard Franklin actor: Stacy Keach / Jamie Lee Curtis …
other title: Drønhed asfalt / Truck Driver …
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.
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The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
director: Greg Berlanti actor: Timothy Olyphant / Zach Braff …
other title: Il club dei cuori infranti / O Clube dos Corações Partidos …
A close-knit group of gay friends share the emotional roller coster of life, relationships, the death of friends, new beginnings, jealousy, fatherhood and professional success. At various stages of life's disarray, these young men share humorous and tragic relationships and always have each other to rely on.
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The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
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.
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The Tingler (1959) IMDb TMDB
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.
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The Million Dollar Duck (1971)
The Million Dollar Duck
director: Vincent McEveety actor: Dean Jones / Sandy Duncan …
other title: Un papero da un milione di dollari / Panik i andedammen …
Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.
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52 Pick-Up (1986) WikiData IMDb TMDB
52 Pick-Up
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Roy Scheider / Ann-Margret …
other title: 52 gioca o muori / Afpresning …
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
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Runaway (1984) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Runaway
director: Michael Crichton actor: Tom Selleck / Cynthia Rhodes …
other title: Døden løber løbsk / Runaway - Spinnen des Todes …
In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.
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Gappa, the Triphibian Monster (1967)
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
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In the Year 2889 (1969) WikiData IMDb TMDB
In the Year 2889
director: Larry Buchanan actor: Paul Petersen / Quinn O'Hara …
other title: En el año 2889
The last seven survivors of a nuclear war barricade themselves against the outside world. Beyond a dense mist, other survivors, radiated and mutant, grow hungry.
June 15, 2026 watched
Dull, absurd but not the fun kind, and never even comes close to the year 1989, let alone 2889.

Watched in #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
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The Giant Claw (1957) WikiData IMDb TMDB
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.
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Gus (1976) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Gus
director: Vincent McEveety actor: Jane Bates / Ed Asner …
other title: Uno strano campione di football
The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so happy.
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Heaven and Hell (1980) WikiData IMDb TMDB
第三类打斗
director: Chang Cheh actor: Mama Hung / Yang Chi-Ching …
other title: 第三类打斗
When a fallen angel descends to the Earth on a mission to storm the underworld, a love shared between angels and humans offers telling testament to the power of a lucky ghost. In the battle that follows, both the living and the dead will discover that a war waged in hell could have consequences that resound forever.
June 14, 2026 watched
Crazier than a sackful of flying monkeys, Chang Cheh gives us a gorgeously-shot, mind-blowingly absurd fantasy moving through Heaven, Hell & Earth.

Watched in the #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon
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Outbreak (1995)
Outbreak
director: Wolfgang Petersen actor: Dustin Hoffman / Rene Russo …
other title: Virus letale / Outbreak - Fora de Controlo …
A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.