Rock Baker’s Video Cheese: The Thirsty Dead (1975)

Rock Baker’s Video Cheese: The Thirsty Dead (1975)

"What would you do if, to live forever, you had to drain others of their lives?" Actually, a better title for this Filipino adventure movie would have been 'The Deadly Thirst.' Some might recall a 1960 Universal International effort called The Leech Woman, about a woman who discovers a means of restoring beauty and…
Monster of the Day #550

Monster of the Day #550

"In the aberrant activities system, the clone race collective is represented by two separate but equally important groups, the Karlacs who investigate aberrations, and the Mortags who execute the offenders. These are their stories."
Cruel Jaws (1995)

Cruel Jaws (1995)

Say what you will, but that title will prove all too accurate. (The film was also known as Jaws 5: Cruel Jaws. I'm not sure if Spielberg ever gave his permission for that, though.) Amongst the many services my good friend Sandy Petersen has afforded me over the years, one of the more dubious…
Monster of the Day #546

Monster of the Day #546

  Not a great movie by any means (although it had it's moments of lowgrade near-wit), but a great cast. This one might be remembered by Viewers of a Certain Age due to the fact, like CHUD, it got a LOT of play on movie channels back in the early days of cable. Speaking…
UPDATED: Monster of the Day #545

UPDATED: Monster of the Day #545

Let's take one last trip on the Night Train to Error. (See what I did there?) And yes, I think that's supposed to be a 'real' person under the monster. OK, I may have to track down a copy of this. This time, though, I'll skip over the truly repulsive first story and just…