Monster of the Day #1923
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Monster of the Day #1923

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…
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Monster of the Day #1922
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Monster of the Day #1922

This kicked off the Fest, and Sandy was VERY excited. He'd been waiting years to show this and it finally hit DVD. Basically, some Brits decided to try to make their own Sinbad-esque (I know, you can't see the influence at all) fantasy movie. They even hired Kerwin Matthews, who starred as Sinbad, and…
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Monster of the Day #1921
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Monster of the Day #1921

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),…
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Monster of the Day #1920
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Monster of the Day #1920

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…
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Monster of the Day #1919
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Monster of the Day #1919

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…
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What We Watched T(ween) Fest 2019….

For anyone interested, FoJ Chad R kindly recorded everything we watched for T(ween)-Fest weekend a few weeks ago. This includes the stuff watched by people who hung around before and after the official Saturday Fest. For example, I arrived after the showing of Black Sleep on Thursday, but saw everything else documented here: Thursday:…
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G-Fest movies announced…
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G-Fest movies announced…

Every summer the Canadian publisher of G-Fan magazine comes to the Chicago area to hold G-Fest, the Godzilla fan convention. Obviously there are times when more is going on with the character, and right now things are pretty active. One of the best advantages of this situation is that even if, like me, you…
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Monster of the Day #1918
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Monster of the Day #1918

It turns out you don't want to hit "refresh Firefox" when you ONLY have half an hour before you have to leave for work. Anyway, I hope everyone had a great day yesterday. And now it's Friday! Whee!
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Monster of the Day #1917
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Monster of the Day #1917

Vampirella was clearly different from Uncle Creepy and Cousin Eerie because she was an actual character with an ongoing series of stories in her magazine rather than just a host. Therefore unlike her compatriots she pretty much featured directly on the covers of her book. It's almost like Warren thought she had some sort…
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Monster of the Day #1916
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Monster of the Day #1916

As detailed in the excellent biography James Warren Empire of Monsters, Warren Publishing eventually starting using a pre-established stable of Spanish artists. I was out of the books by then, but it does sound like the books got interesting again. Although it also sounds like they more heavily went into more realistic tales of…
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