Review: VEOH and the Search for Rubber Suit Monster Videos

One of our peeps at MovieFanCollectibles was doing an online search for an old sci-fi flick.  He found an interesting viewing website at video aggregator VEOH.  VEOH doesn't provide new content, but brings videos together in a user-friendly full screen format, once you download their player.  It's supposed to make finding and watching content out on the net easier.

VEOH is free (for now, anyway) and has a strange mix of old movies, with a fair selection of sci-fi and horror, early and obscure animation, and hygiene or social guidance clips about the dangers of drugs.  We're guessing that's because VEOH thinks old movie fans like other contemporaneous film genres for their querky outlook and sketchy production value.

Originally a California start-up, VEOH has since been acquired by an Israeli company. VEOH received attention early on when Michael Eisner, retired from Disney, became an angel investor in the company's second round of venture capital infusions.  VEOH is also somewhat unique because of limited viewership inside the US.

Hard to know what the niche VEOH is going for in the expanding on-line movie viewing market.  But they have lots of fun-looking content, sort of what would be great for late night intoxicated viewers.

The dreaded? Killer Shrew

Rubber Suit Monster Blog recommends checking out the site because of hilarious monster costumes in VEOH's movie line-up, such as:

"Killer Shrews" An unbelievably bad low-budget horror film with dogs running around dressed up in throw rugs that are supposed to make them look like giant carnivorous shrews.

"Creature from the Haunted Sea" This rubber suit looks like a combination of cookie monster and a live action Homer Simpson crusted in barnacles.

But at MovieFan we really like VEOH because it brought together a lot of Godzilla footage ready to view, thus it's a winner.  A word of caution if you go there - the website is so absorbing that it can make time disappear - be prepared to surrender an hour or more looking around.

Tip: be sure to search VEOH by "length relevance" as well as genre, to find rubber suit monster movie-length vintage videos available there.

Thanks to Wiki and About for the 411 on VEOH as a corporation.