16 More Days To "In The Footsteps of Godzilla"

by Armand Vaquer

The Japan Society of Northern California jumped on the news about Godzilla's "appointment" as tourism ambassador for Shinjuku, Tokyo over at Twitter. Their Tweet is shown above.

In only 16 more days, their "In The Footsteps of Godzilla" event will be held in San Francisco that includes a theatrical screening of the original 1954 movie that started it all, a discussion of Godzilla movies (with an emphasis on their real-life locations and landmarks) and a V.I.P. dinner.

Above, Yuu Asakura with The Monster Movie Fan's Guide To Japan. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Speaking of movie locations, I will have copies of The Monster Movie Fan's Guide To Japan available. If you want to get a copy, this would be a good time to do so!

For more information, including tickets, go here.

Lauren Bacall Urges Vampire Movie Fans To Watch 'Nosferatu' Not 'Twilight'

Written By: Ken Hulsey
Source: WENN

Now even Hollywood legend, Lauren Bacall, has chimed in with some choice words about the 'Twilight' movie craze that has gripped Amrica's youth in it's fangs.

According to Bacall, the actress recently sat down with her grandchildren to watch 'Twilight' because she wanted to see what they were so excited about. Needless to say, she was very disappointed in what she saw, and decided to give her granddaughter an 'education' on what a 'real' vampire film should be.

To accomplish this Bacall made the youth watch the 1922 film "Nosferatu."

The famed actress wrote this on her Twitter.com page, "Yes, I saw Twilight - my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the 'film' was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe, but I do not want a (tell-all) book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die. So instead I gave her a DVD of Murnau's 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu and told her, 'Now that's a vampire film!' And that goes for all of you! Watch Nosferatu instead!"

Amen Lauren! You tell it as it is! Time we all got these young ones straightened out!

Monster Island News Is Now On Twitter

Written By: Ken Hulsey

Okay, I finally caved. On the way in to work today, I kept hearing, Twitter this, and Twitter that, so I decided to give it a try.......okay I feel like a tool. Anyway, I understand that zillions of people are using the thing, so it would probably be in my best interest to post links to my articles on the site to possibly get more interested readers.

So, I'm giving it a shot.

Now all of you out there that get you daily voyeurism from Twitter can now keep track of independent films, monster movies, sci fi and horror via my updates. I will be posting links to my own articles plus stuff that I can't get to, so other sites will reap the benefits of my labor as well.

So here we go! Here is the link to the thread:

MONSTER ISLAND NEWS ON TWITTER

Enjoy!