Today’s creature is from The Deadly Spawn. I can’t say I’ve altered the critter any. I can’t think of a way to “improve” it or make it more interesting.

More reinterpretive sketches of Paul Blaisdell monsters – these folks are from The She-Creature and The Invasion of the Saucer Men. Except for the profile at the bottom, that’s a version of The Monster of Piedras Blancas.

The text says “World Without End”. At the time I did this sketch I didn’t have access to the internet so I had to go with the movie title I remembered. This is another revision of another Paul Blaisdell monster suit. It was featured in the movie The Day the World Ended. I did another version of this guy here.

Paul Blaisdell was responsible for some very striking monster suits in a series of low budget monster movies in the fifties and sixties. Most of the suits are pretty goofy looking but that’s part of their charm. Blaisdell went that extra mile to create creatures that were unforgettable.

“Beulah”, the Venusian from It Conquered the World is a prime example of Blaisdell’s goofy imagination.

This drawing is one in my ongoing series of re-interpreting old b-movie monsters, combining what (little) I know of science and biology with the basic designs of the originals to make something new. With this one I went with the idea that Beulah was some sort of crustacean (those claws are suggestive of that) and this is the result.