MOVIES & MANIA | Tag: King Kong

Ultimate King Kong of Skull Island – action figure

Ultimate King Kong of Skull Island is the latest action figure to be announced by Mezco Toyz. “King Kong, the ruler of Skull Island who terrorized 1930’s New York is …

Ready Player One: the numerous horror and monster references

Ready Player One is a 2018 American science fiction adventure film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline, based on Cline’s 2011 novel of the same name. The movie contains a vast …

Skull Island: The Birth of Kong – comic book, 2017

Skull Island: The Birth of Kong is a 2017 monthly comic book written by Arvid Nelson with artwork by Zid. The comic serves as both a prequel and sequel to the …

Modern Monsters – magazine, USA, 1966

Modern Monsters is a 1966 American magazine that ran for just four issues (the first issue was named Modern Monster). It was published by Prestige Publications and edited by Jim Matthews, …

Amok: King of Legend – novel

Amok: King of Legend is a 1976 British fantasy novel written by Ken Follett, using the pseudonym Bernard L. Ross. These days, Ken Follett is a successful thriller writer, but …

Hunting Humans: The Influence of The Most Dangerous Game – article

“A terrible thought crept like a snake into my mind – hunting was beginning to bore me.” Like calamitous oceanic buses, two shipwrecks have left Bob Rainsford (Joel McCrae) and …

70s Monster Memories – book

70s Monster Memories is a 2015 British book from the writers of We Belong Dead magazine. The 400 page full colour soft back book contains over seventy chapters covering nearly every aspect of 1970s horror …

King Kong – USA, 1933 – overview and reviews

King Kong is a 1933 American fantasy monster/adventure film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack for RKO. The screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth …

Comics from Hell: The Horror Films That Spawned Comics – article

Perhaps even more abundant than the ever-popular trend of adapting comic books into films, particularly Marvel’s ever expanding universe, is the very opposite, transposing popular characters from film onto the …

Noble Johnson – actor

Noble Johnson (April 18, 1881 – January 9, 1978) was an African-American actor and film producer. He was one of the first black actors in Hollywood to achieve any meaningful level of fame and successfully …

Rick Baker – makeup artist

Richard A. “Rick” Baker – born December 8, 1950 in Binghamton, New York – is an American special makeup effects artist known for his creature effects. As a teen, Baker …

King Kong vs. Godzilla – Japan, 1962 – reviews

King Kong vs. Godzilla (キングコング対ゴジラ Kingu Kongu Tai Gojira) is a 1962 Japanese science fiction Kaiju film produced by Toho Studios. Directed by Ishirō Honda with visual effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, the film starred Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara, and Mie Hama. It …