Sci-Fi Channel's Monster Movies. I Love to Hate and Watch This Junk

Never before in television history has a TV network so consistently produced so many crappy movies about giant bugs, lizards, mammals, mythical creatures, natural disasters and pre-historic experiments gone awry as the Sci-Fi Channel.

Now don't get me wrong: I love the Sci-Fi Channel. Much of its scheduled programming is interesting and provocative, supported by clever scripts and good acting. Take shows like the '4400', 'Eureka', 'The Dresden Files', 'Mystery Science Theatre', 'Taken', 'Battlestar Galactica' and the many intelligent and exciting mini-series they've produced over the years. However the proliferation of Monster-of-the-week movies can only lead me to imagine that some of the writers and producers up at 'Sci-Fi' must have been tormented horribly in their younger years by a multitude of creepy crawlies, slithery reptiles, alien visitations and other funky variations of otherwise only slightly scary creatures. Just how many movies about giant snakes, fish and spiders do we really need? Doubtless the folks at 'Sci-Fi' would say 'A lot!' We have 'Python', 'Boa', 'Boa vs. Python', 'King Cobra', 'Komodo vs. Cobra', 'Snake King' & 'Mega Snake' for all those Ophidophobes amongst you. 'Ice-Spiders', 'Arachnid' and 'Webs' for the Arachnaphobes out there and for all the other animal-phobic TV audience we have films such as 'Snakehead Terror' (Killer Fish), 'Frankenfish' (More Killer Fish), 'Locusts the 8th Plague' and 'Mansquito'. We have Natural Disasters with oft repeated themes. Films like 'Atomic Twister', 'Tidal Wave - No Escape' or 'Solar Attack'. Then we have the pre-historic creatures come back to life flicks such as 'Attack of the Sabretooth', 'Pterodactyl' and 'Raptor Island'.