HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Every monster movie lover's favorite Thanksgiving movie is Fred F. Sear' wonderfully outrageous 1957 film, THE GIANT CLAW (as evidenced by the GIANT CLAW banner that appears on the Classic Horror Film Board every Thanksgiving). 

Here's a brief excerpt from Calum Russell's 11-21-23 FAR OUT article entitled "The Film John Carpenter Called His 'Favourite Bad Movie'":

Speaking about the 1957 film The Giant Claw by Fred F. Sears, Carpenter proudly called the movie: “Every monster movie lover’s favourite bad movie. Absolutely brilliantly dumb. The silliest monster ever. Giant puppet chickenhawk made in Mexico. Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum and the entire earth shrink in terror from the squawking anti-matter chicken”.

Continued, he added: “It’s got it all. Stock footage. Inane narration. Great fifties love scene aboard an airplane. Toy planes crashing. Toy helicopter landing. Toy train destroyed. Toy cities destroyed. The ultimate”.

To read Russell's entire article, click HERE. 

THE GIANT CLAW is included in Arrow Video's 2021 Blu-ray set entitled COLD WAR CREATURES: FOUR FILMS FROM SAM KATZMAN, which also contains Edward L. Cahn's CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN (1955), Fred F. Sears' THE WEREWOLF (1956), and Edward L. Cahn's ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU (1957).

Here's Arrow's product description:

"Zombies! Werewolves! Atomic Mutation! Intergalactic Avians! Let this quartet of classic terrors take you back to the golden age of B-Movie Monsters! A mob boss hires an ex-Nazi scientist to reanimate his dead thugs in Creature with the Atom Brain. An auto-accident survivor is used as an experimental subject to create a vaccine for nuclear fallout with hair-raising side-effects in The Werewolf. Treasure hunters get more than they bargained for in the search for a cargo of diamonds that went down with a sunken ship when they discover the zombified crew members are guarding the loot in Zombies of Mora Tau. Meanwhile, an enormous bird from outer-space descends to chow down on the people of planet Earth in The Giant Claw! Four fantastic feature presentations from prolific producer Sam Katzman with a bounty of brand new extras and a raft of new writing by a range of respected raconteurs. These Cold War Creatures are coming for you!"

Click HERE to read Jaime Pina's PUNKGLOBE interview with renowned writer/artist Stephen R. Bissette, who contributed bonus material (i.e., a "live" video lecture and bonus booklet text) to this set. Happy Thanksgiving!!!

TRAILERS FROM HELL: JOE DANTE ON THE GIANT CLAW