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Rubber, Slime and Teeth: The Practical-Effects Creature Feature

A run of monsters built by hand, from Spielberg's shark and Giger's alien to Carpenter's shapeshifter, Dante's gremlins and Henenlotter's thing in the basket, best watched together for the craft of the effects and the way each one cuts a small group off from help.

Starts with crowd favourites everyone has seen and slides into beloved cult midnight movies, mostly easy and fun to watch, though Alien, The Thing and the Gordon and Henenlotter films earn their gore warnings.