Damsels in distress – part II – horror and sci-fi movie posters

This post takes a look at Damsels in distress as depicted on movie posters for horror and sci-fi. There’s no truth in advertising here as many of these depictions never actually happen in the films.

Movie Posters:

Gallery 2:

 

And don’t forget to take a look at Part One of our Damsels in Distress pictorials: Damsels in Distress – in movies

Damsels in distress – part I – horror and sci-fi films

   

Damsels in distress – part I – horror and sci-fi films

Cinema has had a long history of damsels in distress. Early days in silent films we’d witness tied up women laid on railroad tracks. Today we can see wives and daughters kidnapped and heroes like Liam Neeson rushing in to save them.

Take a look at the Damsel in Distress in HORROR and SCI-FI as they are carried off by apes and creatures, brutes and beasts.

Movie Stills:

 

Gorilla ride

The Brain that wouldn’t Die

Caveman want women

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

Captive Wild Women

Captive Wild

wHITE pONGO

White Pongo

Toboga

This Island Earth

The Mummy’s Curse

The Mummy’s Ghost

the brain that wouldnt die

damn I forgot this one

The Robot Monster

There you are honey!

The Monster from Piedras Blanco

Morlock love

Mummy’s Shroud – bad date

The Mummy’s Shroud

the curse of frankenstein

Raquel Welch vs Pterosaur

Plan 9 from Outer Space

The Mummy’s Hand

Mad House

Lugosi in Frankenstein meets the wolfman

Konga when he was little

lost in space – ok, she’s not in distress, she’s being saved

I walked with a zombie

I Married a Monster from Outer Space

It the Terror from Beyond Space

I was a teenage frankenstein

Teenage Frankenstein

Flash Gordon

Curse of the werewolf

Night of the Werewolf

Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb

Creature from the black Lagoon promo clips!

Beach Girls and the monster

The bigfoot movie

The Alligator People

The Alligator People

creatch in color

Flesh Gordon

Frankenstein meets the monster from space

Frankenstein Created Woman

From Beyond The Grave

King Kong and Ann 1933

King Kong 76

Night of the Bloody Apes

Octoman

Return of the swamp thing

The Mummy Lives

Schlock – John Landis

Blood Beach (1980) – Movie review

Blood Beach (1980)

Directed by Jeffery Bloom

David Huffman
Marianna Hill
Burt Young
John Saxon

I remember going to see this in the theaters when I was a young ‘un and thinking it was pretty good, Jaws made you scared to go in the water, and now this flick made you scared of the sand. The tagline for the film, (also one of John Saxon’s lines) “Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, you can’t even get to it.” For whatever reason, the thought of people being sucked down into the sand and the simple practical effect of the film worked for me at the time. However, this is a B-movie in every sense of the meaning, from hokey characters, to bad acting, to a lame monster that they show only once at the end. If you can find the VHS, the film quality is horrendous and I don’t believe it has ever been released on DVD or Blu-Ray. The whole film is on you tube, but the original bad quality is made even worse by the digital compression needed to post it. It takes place at Santa Monica Beach, right near the famous pier. Some unknown worm-like creature, with a head like a sunflower (?), has taken up residence beneath the sand and picks off beach goers (mostly) in the wee hours of the night. Between John Saxon’s stiff acting as the police captain and Burt Young’s ‘so loose, I might not even be following the script’ performance, any scene with either of them is a train wreck. Burt Young plays Sergeant Royko like a NY Crime Boss, oddly out of place in the Cali setting. David Huffman plays a romantic who’s girlfriend disappears (is eaten) by the beach creatch, but that’s okay ‘cause his ex-fiancé is here and he is on the prowl for the hook up. The flick still retains the casual feel of movies from the 1970’s, which makes it all the more bizarre (and boring). The one tell-tale sign that lets you know it was an 80’s flick is, it ends with explosions! As they blow up the pier and the beach. Halleluiah!

 

ahhhh! something gave me a wedgie!

my girlfriend just died, wanna’ make out?

Rosie O’Donnel’s career sinking…

zipper incidents account for 6% of emergency room visits

So, are we getting a hot dog, or not?

Burt spends most of the movie looking for his lost comb

Richard Simmons forced to cancel his beach exercise classes

Do I get NFL Redzone on this satellite dish?

Humanoids From the Deep (1980) – movie review

Humanoids From the Deep (1980) aka: Monster

Directed by Barbara Peeters
Produced by Roger Corman

Doug McClure
Ann Turkel
Vic Morrow

This is one of the better post-gothic Roger Corman films. He had a formula for his films of the 80s that harkened back to his early films, a simple plot, show some skin, reveal a terrible creature or monster, and mimic successful horror films on a low-budget. It’s a formula that allowed him to be the most prolific b-movie director and producer for many decades.

A fishing company’s attempts to cultivate bigger/better fish leads to a mutant species of man-fish hybrid living in watery caves by a seaside town. While the town plans to celebrate the new plant opening, the creatures have their own agenda, to propagate their species. They attack and rape young women at the beaches while dispensing with their boyfriends with a swipe of their nasty claws. The night of the big celebration is the night the humanoids attack to overtake the town. Pandemonium ensues!

I have to mention that the creature effects in this film were done by Rob Bottin, who within the next couple of years did both, The Howling (1981) and The Thing (1982).

It’s a fun flick with some jump scares, great monster design and plenty of gory action. It’s not to be taken too seriously but it’s played straight (not comedic) making it a favorite Corman film of the 1980’s.