All this month it's Man v. Beast. Each week, tune into UEN-TV Friday at 9 p.m. to watch the winner.
 

Week 1 Winner:

Attack of the Giant Leeches

Week 2 Winner:

Doctor of Doom

Week 3 Winner:

The Monster and the Woman

Week 4 Winner:

Godzilla vs. Megalon

Happy October, everyone! It's our annual UEN SciFi Friday Smackdown season, the month where viewers vote each week between two films and we air the winner Friday night on UEN-TV. This year's theme is the age-old conflict of -- in the words of the classic formula -- MAN v BEAST.

Ask most storytellers and sixth grade English teachers, and they'll tell you that a good story gives you someone to root for and someone or something to root against—a protagonist and an antagonist locked in conflict. And from the time a bit of flint or fire was all that stood between humans and the hungry night, some of our fiercest antagonists have been beasts with giant claws and insatiable appetites for…us. Of course, most of our tales about furred, scaled or feathered terrors stalking us are outlandish fictions: most animals, even fierce ones, want nothing to do with us. So rather than deliver to you only films that feature beast antagonists, this Smackdown pits creature-villains against baddies of the two-legged kind. That's right: we're pulling out another trope familiar to literature and film: the beast within. Mad for power, mad for glory, mad for love—or just plain mad—this month's "Man" films feature antagonists that may have started with good intentions but have gone terribly, terribly wrong…