T-Fest Open Thread….
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T-Fest Open Thread….

People seemed to like the last Them! candid, so.... The guy, I'm assuming, is director Gordon Douglas. A journeyman helmer (or, if you're being less generous, a bit of a hack) who made a lot of pictures over the decades, Them! is his best movie. It's really very, very well directed, probably because the…
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Monster of the Day #799
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Monster of the Day #799

Although Uncle Creepy and Cousin Eerie made but rare appearances on their covers--the pics from the last two days might well be the only ones--Vampirella for some reason(s) appeared on quite a few. I have no solution for this perplexing mystery. On the other hand...Frazatta. That can't hurt.
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Monster of the Day #798
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Monster of the Day #798

  Here's a shocker. The early issues of Creepy and Eerie, the ones edited and nearly entirely written by Archie Goodwin (no, not that Archie Goodwin--I think), are still amazingly fab. I urge anyone to go to their libraries and request the super-nifty Dark Horse hardcover reprint books of those, of which I own…
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Holy Crap! T-Fest Weekend in one week!

Join us Friday night in Rockwall, suburban Dallas, at Stately Petersen Manor for our kickoff to the, what, 8th annual T-Fest? I'll be picking one of the movies that night, I promise it's pretty entertaining. I imagine we'll get going more or less by 7:00. Sandy has a Polish war movie he wants to…
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Behind on the scenes on Them!

Here's a publicity shot from Them! I think this is the lady who was embarrassed to admit she'd been leaving a "sick friend" when she ran a red light. Best detail? Note James Whitemore's shoes. He's wearing lifts. I don't think this was an ego thing. He and James Arness do the buddy cop…
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Monster of the Day #794
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Monster of the Day #794

  Bruno Mattei is not the only one who can lift an entire scene from another movie, apparently.* *To be fair to Mr. Mattei, his particular skill is the ability to lift an entire movie from another movie.
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Wacky Old Comics…
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Wacky Old Comics…

There are a few sites like this, and they are gold. Man, I wish SyFy had more of a sense of whimsey. Why not a series like Tales from the Crypt, adapting all these goofy old public domain comic books, only sans all the nudity and gore. It would be a fun show, and…
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