The last B to Z of the year promises to put you in some sticky situations, with two slime-ridden films featuring menacing creatures and the downfall of humanity.

Ishiro Honda launched "Godzilla" in 1954, marking the dawn of the famous kaiju eiga series produced by Toho studios in Japan. He's since dreamed up all kinds of terrifying consequences to the impending nuclear catastrophe. In "The H-Man", nuclear tests in the Pacific cause sailors to mutate into slimy, radioactive monsters that multiply in the sewers of Tokyo. The synopsis evokes the American sci-fi classic "The Blob", also released in 1958.

In fact, our second film of choice is precisely that, but with a 1980s makeover. In the original "The Blob" with Steve McQueen, the gooey protagonist was an extraterrestrial life-form. The 1988 version, on the other hand, proposes a Blob born of a US government-led scientific experiment gone disastrously wrong. And if the original movie is a typical example of 50s-era science fiction aesthetics, the remake will definitely read like a parody of John Hughes teen comedies... think "The Blob meets The Breakfast Club". The creature's pudding-like appearance remains untouched, of course. Bring on the total meltdown!