DIE-HARD FANG

Since the title character of the Jim Jarmusch film Paterson (out on DVD and Blu-ray this week) and his wife go to see the great 1932 shocker Island of Lost Souls...

Monster-of-the-Week: ...this week let's honor this fellow...

...played by Tetsu Komai, from that film.

BOSSY ANTS

With Ant-Man opening tomorrow…

Monster-of-the-Week: …an ant monster seems apropos, and the obvious choice is the masterly 1954 classic Them! 

But since this favorite has already been featured as a MOTW, let us give the nod to…

 …the giant alpha ant in charge of the Florida sugar mill staffed with mind-controlled human slave labor, in Bert I. Gordon’s 1977 laugh-riot Empire of the Ants, starring poor Joan Collins at a low point of her career, but at the height of her ‘70s-era beauty…

Just wait until the mill workers unionize!

MORLOCKED AND LOADED

TCM is showing the 1960 George Pal favorite The Time Machine tomorrow at 5 p.m. (Phoenix time), so…

Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s give the nod to any specimen of those futuristic working stiffs the Morlocks, the subterranean descendents, in the vision of H. G. Wells, of today’s wage slaves, now devolved into subhuman bestiality, living to serve, but also to dine upon, those future one-percenters the Eloi. Talk about “Eat the Rich.”

Here’s one from the film, contrasted with Yvette Mimieux for maximum hideousness: