CREATURES FROM "GRIMM" Season One (2011)

When you live on a steady diet of the past, you have a tendency to miss out on what's happening in the present time, and by the time you finally get around to it, it's the past again! Well, that's how I feel about the TV series "GRIMM." I didn't even know it existed until a month or so ago, or as Jimi would say, "I don't live today, maybe tomorrow, I just can't say!"

 So, for those of you living under a rock like me, here's a handful of some of the creatures from the first half of Season One of "GRIMM" from 2011. This is really as far as I have got! Running for six seasons with up to 22 shows a season, I might never get caught up unless I do nothing else for a while!! A lot of time it slips into being a regular cop TV show, but the rest of the time, it's not too bad, and quite imaginative, especially as far as the monsters are concerned, and it's difficult to find good monsters these days!

This guy is one of the main characters! He's part of the Blutbaden family, which is basically a werewolf more or less!

This is what a dead Blutbad predator looks like!

This is a Hexenbiest, better known as a witch! A witch doesn't really seem to fit in with all the animals, but I guess if you consider that it's Grimm's Fairy Tales and not Animal Planet, it makes sense!

The Jägerbär is part of the bear family!

The Mellifers are akin to bees!

 The Ziegevölk is a horny goat!!

The Reinigen is a seedy rodent, or a dirty rat!

A Bauerschweine is a pig that likes to take mud baths! Of course, this one is also a cop!!

The Fuchsbau is related to the fox! Watch out for those claws!!

The Siegbarste is another creature that is not an animal but is prevalent in fairy tales, the big ass ogre! This is one tough thick skinned sumbitch!!

The Lausenschlange snake dude is pretty creepy! Of course, he's a lawyer! What else would a snake possibly be?

The Mauzhertz is a mouse, and he's not mighty at all!

This Fuchsbau fox is a little more civilized than that female, until you know what he's really up to!

I'm not real sure about this one, but I think it's another Fuchsbau! His more important role is that of a victim of a Spinnetod!

The Eisbiber is of the beaver family! Man, I sure don't want any artificial butter flavor for my popcorn from his anal glads!

 

This lovely pair of Spinnetods are vampire spiders that you don't want to have anything to do with! Period!

So I know I'm late to the dance, it's the story of my life, but better later than never, right? I also plan on being late for my funeral! See you Saturday with something special, I guarantee or your money back!

MONSTER MOVIES THAT SCARED ME THE MOST!

Here's a list of movies that scared me the most when I saw them at the theater when they came out, back in the fifties. The list starts with the scariest ones first...

THE BLOB is my number one scary movie, my dad took me to see it when I was just ten years old. When Steve goes back to the doc's house and sees something through the blinds, well, that was enough for me! I sat in the lounge while my dad watched the movie. After about 20 minutes, I went back in to the theater but covered my eyes a lot! I had nightmares for years after that!

Next on my list is THE FLY, when the creature is finally shown, with the twitching and all, well, it literally blew my little mind into bite-sized pieces!!

The ID Monster in FORBIDDEN PLANET was both mind-boggling and terrifying, wow, getting to see this incredible movie when it came out was a gift from the sci-fi gods!! I was 8 years old.

I also saw TARANTULA when I was 8, it was a creepy movie to start with, but, when I caught a glance of Leo here, right before the monster gets him, well, I almost fainted. That face haunted me for years!!

Again, I was only 8 when I saw INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. I swear, this movie was so tense and shocking that it just left me with a feeling of supreme dread!

I was 9 years old when I saw the last three movies on the list. I loved KRONOS, it was so unique! But, the creepiest parts had to do with Dr. Eliot being possessed by that alien force!!

Saw this one with my neighbors, we sat close to the front and in the center. Whenever the big slobbering scorpion made its closeup, they turned the freakin' sound way up!! It was a totally insane experience!

Lastly is CURSE OF THE DEMON. Wow, talk about a wild ride, the part that really got me was when Dana was leaving the doctor's house at night and walks through the woods with that crazy ball of light chasing him!

Okay then, make sure to check back for more cool stuff from the Dungeon Gang!

EXPLOITATIONARY TRAILER SPLASHES!!!

 It's a thrill to be here tonight! I've been watching some olde trailers lately, and in the 50's, here's some of the language they would use to get you excited and all fired up for that next cheap flick!

 Single words were always effective!

 But I think single words should always have exclamation points!

 Now these people get it!!!

 
There are a couple of categories you can throw these things into, like this is basically an announcement!

That wasn't good enough, so they had to play the "Ultimate" card!

But then the announcements start getting scarier!

 And if a nightmare threatening the world isn't enough for you.......

.....Then it's terrifying time!

 And what's more terrifying that most terrifying? More terrifying!

 What's worst? Something "More Terrifying Than Any Horror Known To Man" or "The Biggest Shock Of A Lifetime?" Most likely at that point, it ain't gonna make much difference!

Speaking of shocking, the next phase are the warnings, and these are the things you really have to watch out for, because it's all really bad from here on out!

 Okay, "Fear Will Pierce Your Flesh," which doesn't sound very appetizing at all, and if that's not bad enough,

 "Your Flesh Will Crawl!" That's just creepy!

"Brutal and Blood-Thirsty!"

 Oh, yeah, let's party!

 And the best warning of all comes from you know where!!

Because if you don't heed that warning, this can happen to you!
(Looking at this really makes me want to go watch "The Blob" right now!)

And what appears to be the mildest message might just be the scariest of all, because we as a society might have already entered this phase!!

SOME SILENT HORROR MOVIE POSTERS FOR A FRIDAY

Oh man, I am so sick today... Like a mailman, I have to deliver this post, without a sub though! Besides the headache, my Niagara Falls nose is really getting on my freakin' nerves!!

Edison's FRANKENSTEIN is really something to behold, it's just plain weird, and crude! The artwork reminds me of the 78 rpm records my parents had.

This Universal poster art for THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA starring Lon Chaney is super busy. Check out that claim.. And a cast of 5000 'others.' Looks like that term has been replaced with 'extras' nowadays.

Lon also worked for MGM Studios, here's a very nice poster for the lost movie, LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT!

Wow, this poster for MGM's FAUST looks like a cover for an old horror pulp magazine!!

In Germany, their movie posters sometimes reflected the Euro Cubist art movement, like in this poster for THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI...

This poster for THE GOLEM ist plain insane, damn, what a crazy, creepy place to live!

Lastly we have HAXAN, an awesome Swedish-Danish production. We have a nude maiden and a peeping tom devil on this poster! Check in tomorrow when Eegah!! keeps the ball rolling, here, at the Dungeon!