Monster of the Day #1947

Monster of the Day #1947

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…
The greatest “Huh?” of 2019….

The greatest “Huh?” of 2019….

I had seen this, but Eric Hinkle also aptly commented on it on the thread for the latest MotD. He summed it up nicely, so.... "Has anyone else heard the 'good' news about the goofy old 60's kiddie TV show 'The Banana Splits'? SyFy made a movie about it. But they did change a…
Monster of the Day #1946

Monster of the Day #1946

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…
Monster of the Day #1945

Monster of the Day #1945

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…
Monster of the Day #1944

Monster of the Day #1944

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).
Monster of the Day #1943

Monster of the Day #1943

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…
Monster of the Day #1942

Monster of the Day #1942

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…
Ken Recommends: March Comes in Like a Lion

Ken Recommends: March Comes in Like a Lion

I've really tried to go light on talking about my current obsession with anime. However, there's one title I think is perhaps the best such program I've watched, and certainly ranks in my own personal Big Three (along with K-On! and the Monogatari series, and believe me, I consider those shows to be the…
Monster of the Day #1941

Monster of the Day #1941

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…
Monster of the Day #1940

Monster of the Day #1940

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…