Month: October 2013

Well, no surprise here, as several people had predicted it. Still, it's the Grandfather of Japanese ghost movies. Easy to see where the ghost girl from Ringu originated, she's basically the daughter of this lady. This is on my Halloween watch list, courtesy of the fine folks from Criterion. Maybe a day watching this…

Sexy Cat Stripper...Worst Case Scenario.

Monsters very seldom enter the cultural lexicon anymore; this might be the primary example of successfully doing so this century. And the American remake is a rare example of turning out a very good, discrete version of an Asian film. Aside from the fact that monsters just don't grab mass audiences the way they…

Damn, even in death the Japanese are perverts.

Not part of last week's gang, but I wouldn't want to leave them out. Except for Booberry, I must have eaten more of this than any of the other monster cereals. I don't really remember it, but I know I had all the plastic figures (which I think Sandy COMPLETELY ripped-off for his Cthulhu…

Big surprise here. Still, these were heady days in early nerd culture. A big time breakfast manufacturer built (successfully) an entire line of cereals based on old monster movies, figuring kids liked monsters, and that at least a percentage of them (along with their parents) would recognize ersatz voices based on Lugosi, Karloff and…

Not the most suspenseful week, true. Still, even if I never really ate the cereal, I'll take this guy over, say, the Monster from Van Helsing anyday.

  Well, the mystery is solved. This was (easily!) my favorite. I never really tried the two later add-ons to the line. Count Chocula struck me as the worst of several chocolate cereals out there, far outgunned by both Cocoa Puffs and Cocoa Crispies. As for Frankenberry, I've never been partial to the red…

Here's Sandy's favorite, apparently. I don't know if I've ever tried this, actually. I do like orange dreamsicle-flavored stuff, though. Indeed, I'm very excited because Friday my local Culver' s is offering their all too rare Orange Dreamsicle custard. Already looking forward to a couple of scoops of it.