by Ken Newquist / June 29, 2010
Check the batteries in your motion trackers, refuel your flamethrowers, lock and load your shotgun, and make sure you've everything you need to make a few dozen pipe bombs.
Monster Week is here.
The week-long celebration of speculative fiction's monster movies is running July 25-31 at Nuketown. It focuses on "creature features", movies like Aliens, Predator and The Thing that pit humanity against overwhelming horrors. It will include movie reviews, audio commentary, game reviews and RPG reviews and anything else we can shove out the airlock.
Sunday, 7/25/2010
- Nuketown - Jaws: The prototypical modern monster movie
- The Secret Lair - Monster Week: Building a Better Shark
Monday, 7/26/2010
Tuesday, 7/27/2010
Wednesday, 7/28/2010
- Deep Rising: This is your gaming group with automatic weapons
- Star Wars: The Storm Dragons of Tarl: The storm dragons are magnificent creatures hunt the hurricanes of the storm world of Tarl.
- The Secret Lair: Monster Week 2010: Overlords Miller and Johnson have declared war on the surface world with episode #37 of The Secret Lair, in which they unleash horrors such as cat sharks and chipmunk spiders in support of Nuketown's Monster Week.
Thursday, 7/29/2010
- The Rules of a Creature Feature: The Scream series was famous for enumerating the rules of the slasher horror genre. The Creature Feature has its own rules, and the best movies play by them -- or play off of them.
Friday, 7/30/2010
- No updates
Saturday, 7/31/2010
Monday, 8/2/2010