Monster of the Day #568
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Monster of the Day #568

  Have I really never done this before? Very neat film, and a great example of the 'blob' picture. Basically a Quatermass film sans Quatermass, although Dean Jagger proves an able replacement. Also offers one of the more surprisingly vicious death scenes for a film of this vintage. Every once in a while a…
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Halloween Horrors on TCM, starting tonight…
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Halloween Horrors on TCM, starting tonight…

Thanks to venerable FoJ Zombiewhacker  for compiling the following, rather comprehensive list of Halloween movies playing his month on TCM. This actually represents a lot more work than it looks like, as I know from having done similar stuff in the past. As he dryly notes at the end, "Other than that, nothing much…
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T-Fest!
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T-Fest!

Wow, TWO WEEKS from Friday. Crazy. Sandy and I are still formalizing the line-up, although it's 80% locked in. It's a pretty good mix of stuff, I think. It's our normal seven movies and a shorts / quiz slot, with a nice long dinner break. It also marks our first reshowing of a movie,…
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Surprise, new Photobucket design sucks…

I've written before how every time they revamp a website in a major way (IMDB, Mapquest), the result is always hideously harder to use. Now Photobucket has, of course, done the same thing. Apparently, much like the IMDB, their new design mandate was purely to make the site look prettier. They 'reduced clutter' by…
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