Month: May 2019

So on Sunday we watched a lot of misc stuff, including (apparently we hadn't had enough Dolph Lundgren sci-fi on Saturday) Masters of the Universe. There are several monster guys, but towering about them is Frank Langella as Skeletor. His acting here is my go to example of a performance that transcends to an…

We always end the spring fest with a film made in Texas, and this Houston-filmed sci-fi action flick sure fit the bill. It's pretty fun, like a dumber The Hidden, although the core motive of the murderous alien is quite nifty.

The penultimate film at the Fest was the second Blind Dead movie. This four film series is interesting in that each film is discrete unto itself and rewrites the 'rules' of the Dead. So you never know where things are going to go from movie to movie. And the Blind Dead are a pretty…

After shorts and the quiz (a very good TV & movies spaceship test by Chad R., the first one I ever won, albeit by only one point) and dinner, we returned and started up Lake of Dracula. This was the first of three Toho vampire movies clearly inspired by Hammer's films. Although rare, all…

The third slot was given to GalaxyJane in honor of her birthday, and she choose Abby. For some reason (maybe made by a small film company that would out of business and the master print was destroyed?), there's no decent print of the movie, which seems weird for something made in 1974. This was…

The second film was Dr Blood's Coffin, a....well,let's just say it's not pulse-pounding fare. Sandy wanted to show it because it features one of the more inept villain protagonists you'll find, and that's true. In real like this guy would have been hauled off to jail in about five minutes. Luckily for him, everyone…

After the atmospheric but ultimately disappointing Mexican horror flick The Similars, we popped in the stunningly atmospheric and not at all disappointing Mexican horror flick The Black Pit of Dr. M. The film is wildly all over the map (as opposed to The Similars, where the same scenes happened again and again and again),…

The Similars was a recent Mexican horror film that Sandy came across. People stranded in a small town bus depot start having a horrifying thing happen to them. This is kind of interesting (for a while, anyway) until about we finally get the solution to the incident and it turns out this is just…

Sandy dug this up, which proved an early example of something I've always liked, which is the very solid series of supernatural or at least macabre* investigator TV pilots from the '60s and '70s for shows that sadly never went anywhere (other than with Kolchak). This one I'd never even heard of, and was…