Month: June 2019

Blood Beat is another Amazon Prime film, a regional (Wisconsin) slasher flick that's 80% horrible deathly slop and 20% batcrap insanity. The crazy stuff is almost worth sitting through the film for, but man, the pacing is just deadly. Still, you get a killer in full samurai armor--the availability of which no doubt inspiring…

Amazon Prime has your old school schlock covered as well. This is Monster Maker, 1944, with J. Carrol Naish. Have I ever seen this? Maybe not. Just plug in Bela Lugosi Prime in the Prime search engine and see how many titles come up. A lot, if not quite all, of his Poverty Row…

Now i'm just picking random obscure monster movies on Amazon Prime, but that's OK. Island Claws is hardly great, and to the regret of most, as with '50s sci-fi cheapies we don't get to see the monster until the end. But when we do...glorious giant physical prop! Yay! I apologize for the spoiler, but…

Again, I just want everyone to know Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake is on Amazon Prime. Wheeee! I don't know if it looks as good as it does on the spectacular DVD, but hey, its readily available and free (if you have Prime).

Amazon Prime has a lot of junk now, so in a minor way it can be like roving the shelves of a big video store back in the day, seeing a video box and saying, "What is this?" As we all know, these usually aren't hidden gems, but hey, it's something you've never even…

It's kind of unheralded but Amazon Prime has been really shoring up their selection of junk cinema lately. (Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake!) Since they added the pretty obscure trilogy of Hammer-inspired Toho vampire movies from the 70s, we showed the first one at the spring T-Fest. It was fine, but that was a…

The film definitely does right by Ghirdorah (I'm trying to get over 'Ghidrah,' but hey, that's how I knew him), who is really terrifying and powerful. Although I miss the days when he was so powerful it took the entire Big Three to take him down. Again, the film probably won't be theaters that…

I probably liked the new Godzilla design a bit more this time, although as a Cranky Old Man I still prefer a more traditional design. Still, after the GINO design in the 1998 film, this was at least obviously Godzilla. Again, we'll see him one more time given that Godzilla vs Kong is basically…