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Finally, the 10’s! Our journey through time is nearly done, but not before a resurgence of both the shark movie and the big-budget creature feature--huzzah! This decade brings about the triumphant return of the Jurassic Park franchise as well as the shark attack movie, in addition to continued Godzilla, King Kong, and more wonderful things [...]

The Aughts! A soft start for the new millennium as far as creature features go--not as far as quality, but it seems as though after the several disappointing performers of the previous decade and a rise in straight-to-DVD fare the creature feature as a genre was put on the back-burner for a while. In the [...]

On to the 90’s! For better and worse, this is *absolutely* the decade of computer-based effects--what could be made real suddenly expanded to anything and everything, only with the caveat it probably won’t look anywhere near realistic at the time or down the line (sometimes monumentally so!). Before we continue, previously on Creature Feature Semicentennial... [...]

Previously On Creature Feature Semicentennial… https://www.horrorbuzz.com/2020/05/10/welcome-to-creature-feature-semicentennial-pt-2-1980-1984/ Here, in our present. Tonight... 1985 The Fly - This year’s all timer is a David Cronenberg sci-fi descent into body horror madness starring Jeff Goldblum & Geena Davis that sticks with long afterwards. A scientist develops a teleportation device only things go off-the-rails when a fly joins his [...]

Previously On Creature Feature Semicentennial… https://www.horrorbuzz.com/2020/05/03/creature-feature/ Now, the 80’s! We’ll see more in the way of otherworldly or unique creatures as opposed to the “regular” animals out for blood of the 70’s. A welcome change of pace that the ever growing visual FX industry embraces fully with a variety of movie monsters making their cinematic [...]

Why 50 years of creature features, you say? All kinds of reasons, but here you go:  they’re largely free of magic/faith-based resolutions in that characters must do or die based on choices/luck, the casts are often a variety of people from all walks of life, they can be the expensive highest-grossing movie of all time [...]