Fictional Monsters
Antics of the Artists
The filmmaker's home page.
Those wacky, outrageous bohemians!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 21, 2013 -
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Category: Aliens, Literature, Movies, Avant Garde, Surrealism, Fictional Monsters
“That Mystery Half-Wit Sure Has the Girls All Agog!”
[Click to enlarge.]
Original ad.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 12, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Costumes and Masks, Stereotypes and Cliches, Comics, 1950s, Face and Facial Expressions, Fictional Monsters
Pigbird
Pigbird by Richard Condie, National Film Board of Canada
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 04, 2013 -
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Category: Destruction, Insects and Spiders, PSA’s, North America, Fictional Monsters
Monsters of Iowa
Who would ever suspect that boring old Iowa was host to so many odd creatures?
Consider this winged monster from 1903, above.
Or this account, below, found along with more Iowa monsters in UNNATURAL PHENOMENA. (See book sidebar.)
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 08, 2013 -
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Category: Cryptozoology, Fictional Monsters, Regionalism, Superstition, 1900s, North America, Nineteenth Century
Lampy, the Multimillion-Dollar Garden Gnome
Read about Lampy here.
More Gnome history here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 21, 2013 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Cult Figures and Artifacts, Horticulture and Gardens, Foreign Customs, Europe, Nineteenth Century, Fictional Monsters
Does Satan Exist?
Some media gimmicks never go out of style. But you'd think we could have reached a conclusion during the past sixty years, since the article appeared in 1948.
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 18, 2013 -
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Category: Authorities and Experts, Religion, 1940s, Fictional Monsters
The Undying Monster
Trailer above, film below!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 14, 2013 -
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Category: Movies, 1940s, Fictional Monsters
Batbaby
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 12, 2013 -
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Category: Animals, Death, Horror, Humor, Parody, Music, Fictional Monsters
ROBOT MONSTER
You know the drill: if you like the trailer, above, for ROBOT MONSTER, then you can watch the whole film, below.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 30, 2013 -
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Category: Aliens, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, AI, Robots and Other Automatons, 1950s, Fictional Monsters
Weird Snowmen
Evil snowmen is a horror trope that had never occurred to me. But I'm sure it's in one Stephen King novel or another already.
Anthropomorphic icicles is another notion I was blissfully unfamiliar with. Can they really run far enough and fast enough to the north to escape Spring?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 28, 2013 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Destruction, Evil, Seasonal, Cartoons, 1930s, 1960s, Fictional Monsters
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