Month: June 2016

Speaking of J. Carrol Naish being assaulted...

Yes, she did keep in touch with Boo Radley.

One of the reasons Universal reigned supreme with horror was that while the larger majors all wanted a piece of that sweet horror box office, they were clearly embarrassed to be making such fare. Hell, even in the '50s Jack Warner went out of his way to attempt to sabotage Them!, which despite his…

Let's try more obscure '40s films. I'm sure I'll do some repeats. Again, I have to whip up a records of these things one day. Anyhoo, these are generally cheaper films, and so the monsters will usually be inexpensive, briefly seen and mostly just guys in make-up. This first one is a deviation from…

Arnold's private life strayed far from the clean-cut image he portrayed in the media.

This is the one I saw over the weekend. I wasn't even aware of it, but it's available on Netflix. It's not as good as the guy's best film, but that's a legitimate candidate for the greatest film of the last 20 years, so I'm no surprised. It's pretty good, though.

The film ends with the hero literally fist fighting Satan, who as you can see was played by Liberace. You don't see that sort of thing very often.

I saw a pretty great movie over the weekend, but it didn't provide enough still. So we'll start the week with a great zany Philippine horror movie I showed Sandy several years ago. The Toxic Avenger's stats went way down after he had to give up the 'roids, though.

Man, that's gorgeous.