Month: March 2017

Now, back to before we were so rudely interrupted. Here's some bonus material as a make-up. Ah the French, with an expressionistic poster for a flick like Godzilla Raids Again. And note that they weren't so cheap they didn't pay to use the Godzilla name, unlike Warners. Gigantis my ass. The third poster is…

I like how he wears the octopus like a boa. And sorry, had trouble with the front page image. I might have to resave the image after work. I hope you guys had a great weekend. I worked all day Saturday to catch up on some stuff, so that wasn't great. Also lost an…

Sex and violence, the two great draws. We've featured the monster, and also behind the scene candids, and now the poster. And why not? Bless you, Paul Blaisdell. Have a great weekend, everyone. If you're an especial Tom Baker fan, catch the last two seasons--well, British seasons, so we're talking like 16 episodes--of Monarch…

I assume the beastie on the poster was meant to represent this: That thing is barely in the film, suggesting that they decided to toss a more overt monster in there for a minute or two just so they could feature one on the poster to draw the kids in. I have to admit,…

A shockingly risque poster for the day, I'd have thought. Needless to say, the film doesn't live up to it. Although it would have if the 'alien' didn't walk backwards away from the camera all the time. Famously, the outfit they gave the actress was so tight the backside split open. This might have…

This is one of a couple of AIP horror movies taking advantage of the whole Bridey Murphy thing. The Unknown Undead was the other. Larry Buchanan remade this as he did yesterday's. Those remakes are awful, but to be fair they were shot in color for $25,000, a sum at the time that even…

Ah, AIP. The company that famously came up with an exploitable title first, then some poster art which they shared with owners on the drive-in circuit. If the response was positive, *then* they wrote a script and shot the film. I've done at least one week of these before, and the five we'll do…

Although I'm not nearly as conversant with his work as Bill Paxton's, this week also say the passing of Neil Fingleton, formerly the tallest man in Britain. As often happened with people that tall, he died much too young, at 36. Mr. Fingleton appeared in Doctor Who and Game of Thrones, among other things.…