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Giant Bug Cinema – A Monster Kid’s Guide (paperback)
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Giant Bug Cinema – A Monster Kid’s Guide (paperback)

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Nominated for the 2023 Rondo Award

Giant Bug Cinema – A Monster Kid’s Guide

 by Mark Bailey

 

128 pages

6x9

 ISBN  9798887710389

 

Learn more about these entertainingly enormous entomological movie treasures:

 

. King Kong: Lost Spider Pit Sequence (1933)

. Mesa of Lost Women (1953)

. THEM! (1954)

. Tarantula (1955)

. Rodan (1956)

. Beginning of the End (1957)

. The Black Scorpion (1957)

. The Deadly Mantis (1957)

. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

. Monster From Green Hell (1957)

. Cosmic Monsters (1958)

. Earth vs. The Spider (1958)

. The Fly (1958)

. Monster on the Campus (1958)

. The Tingler (1959)

. The Wasp Woman (1959)

. Return of the Fly (1959)

. Mothra (1961)

. Mysterious Island (1961)

. Curse of the Fly (1965)

. First Men in the Moon (1964)

. Godzilla vs. The Thing (1964)

. Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)

. Godzilla versus The Sea Monster (1966)

. Quartermass and the Pit (1967)

. Son of Godzilla (1967)

. Destroy All Monsters (1968)

. Matinee (1993)

BOOK REVIEW IN SHOCK CINEMA MAGAZINE

GIANT BUG CINEMA: A Monster Kid's Guide produced by Mark Bailey (BearManor Media; bearmanormedia.com; $22.00). When I was a little kid, my earliest exposure to creature features was Saturday afternoon's "Monster Movie Matinee," hosted by Dr. E. Nick Witty and his assistant Epal. Impressionable children across the country enjoyed similar experiences, as you'll see in this compact 128-page collection of reviews, centered around sci-fi/horror films with insect monstrosities. 27 titles - all but one from the pre-1968 "Monster Kid" era - are covered within its pages, with Mark Bailey corraliing[sic] a wide assortment of enthusiastic writers, Most focus on one specific film, celebrating classics like THE FLY and THEM!, schlocky efforts such as MONSTER FROM GREEN HELL and EARTH VS. THE SPIDER, as well as a slew of Toho kaiju including GODZILLA VS. THE THING and DESTROY ALL MONSTERS - with its contributors occasionally weaving in their own nostalgic memories of how they first caught these movies on TV. It's fun, lightweight and highly relatable.


Join the authors of GIANT BEAST CINEMA for a family friendly book signing and Sunday screening of Roger Corman's 1957 film, ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS!