But they weren’t all winners. In fact, quite a few ’50s monster movies were extremely rough around the edges. But, of those lesser films, some of them continue to hold a compulsively watchable charm.

It’s been at least a hundred years since filmmakers realized monsters were cool, especially those of the giant variety, with 1925’s The Lost World being an early and definitive monster movie. Well, it ...

Reanna Gonzalez received her MFA in screenwriting and has been writing movie and television sceenplays for 5 years. She was mentored be Tony Award-winning playwright, Mark Medoff. She spends her free ...

I hated horror as a kid. Growing up, I didn’t have anyone to introduce me to old black and white films, either. And the only time I saw movies released before I was born was when local TV channels ...

Guillermo del Toro has made several monster movies of a particular bent — soulful, swoony, feverish films about grotesque-looking creatures who prove themselves more deeply human than the humans who ...