Month: March 2020

This pretty much sums up the concept of uninspired. It's competent, but there's a generic knock-off barbarian (Marvel had the Conan license, but I'm sure would have preferred to own a character like him if he could be made similarly popular--which obviously didn't happen). A generic monster. (The "Man-Monster"? Really? That's fresh.) I mean,…

First of all, I hope everyone is well. I actually braved a theater with a friend yesterday (along with maybe 10 other souls) to see King Kong. I will say that the parking lot for the multiplex was maybe a quarter filled, maybe. 20%? Not great for a Sunday. Still, King Kong. Great movie.…

YouTube has a nice (if nowhere near this crisp) copy of Lady Vampire from 1959. I had never even heard of that. Now I can't find the channel anymore, though, and apparently it's been deleted. That's a real shame, as they had a lot of great Japanese and British horror movies. No licenses though,…

Although my first thought of Max Von Sydow was of The Seventh Seal, featured yesterday, I know that for most people it's his turn as the titular Father Merrin in The Exorcist. I'm sure theaters will play it around Halloween-time, so if you don't get around to watching it at home anytime soon, you…

Max Von Sydow, RIP. This has been a tough year for old movie buffs already, what with Kirk Douglas passing away last month and now Max Von Sydow passing. I've seen Strange Brew and Flash Gordon recently (Gordon as at this year's B-Fest), so this week I'll rewatch today's subject. Of course there's The…

Coming soon to a theater near you! Kong has been featured here many times, but I figured folks would want to know that TCM and Fathom Events will be hosting two showings, an afternoon and an evening one, next Sunday (the 15th) in theaters nationwide. If you have access to a kid, you might…

A Japanese poster for Ghosthouse! Ha! It sure makes the film look a lot better than it is.

Yes, if a poster ever summed up with experience of watching Roman Polanski's Fearless Vampire Killers, surely it was this one.

Oh, Japan. I'm pretty sure the posters for American horror films from 1960 didn't look like this. Of course, the film's trailer makes it look a lot more grueling than American horror films from that era either. This is Jikoku ("Hell"), and that seems to sum up the films.

Have I featured this before? VERY early stop animated dinosaur from the 1923 (!) Buster Keaton movie Three Ages. So that's two years before Willis O'Brien's Lost World was released. The goofy dinosaur design also looks forward to the Ringo Starr comedy Caveman. The dino appears very briefly, and just near the start of…