Month: April 2020

Here's a treat. A day or two ago the YouTube channel Cult Cinema classics posted a VERY nice print of White Zombie. Indeed, it's amazing that an independent cheapie from 1932 still can possibly look this good. Somebody must have been preserving the master print for many decades. The film provides Bela Lusosi, just…

Have I been hitting the Cult Cinema Classics channel on YouTube a bit hard lately? It's hard to get away from, since they are adding new monster movies (along with many other genres) so fast I can barely get to their backlog. I mean, later today they're adding The Giant Claw, the first movie…

Ah, hello old friend. Peckish? Have some of these anchovies. Because fish is good brain food. Available to watch, unsurprisingly, the Cult Cinema Classics channel on YouTube. If you have Amazon Prime you can double bill it with The Medusa Touch. There's a reason for that double bill, but please everyone, no spoilers. Anyway,…

  FoJ Bchasm suggested this, and I'll let him explain why. "I've enclosed a shot of Molesaar, from the 1983 film "The Keep."  I've always thought his first appearance in the film was one of the most beautiful scenes in horror movies, if not movies in general.  I think he'd make a great MotD.…

Short on time? 1943's Poverty Row feature The Ape Man, starring Bela Lugosi and directed by (of course) William Beaudine, runs a scant 63 minutes. It's super cheap and silly, but endearing, and is bookended with a weird very meta joke. Every generation thinks they invented sophisticated humor like that, but it's been around…

I know I've been leaning on the Cult Cinema Classics channel pretty hard as I spotlight "films you can watch for free on YouTube." There's a reason for that, though. They have a good backlog of schlock, and their film prints are often very nice, especially for things uploaded onto YouTube. Another nice aspect…

One of the better Amicus portmanteau films, House that Dripped Blood, is available via the Cult Cinema Classics channel on YouTube. Hey, a film that features both Sean John Pertwee and Ingrid Pitt as vampires can't be bad. Also on hand is Denholm Elliott, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee (in one of the best…

Screaming Skull is a prime example of what cheapie monster movies were like back in the day. Budgetary reasons often only had the monster fully revealed in the last five or ten minutes (made more bearable by the films themselves often only lasting 60 or 65 minutes), so that big reveal often made or…

Behold the terror! Are you one of the many who feel Monster on the Campus is too...posh, too rarified, too tony? Well, there's always the, er, much more blue collar The Neandertal Man. Free for viewing on the Cult Cinema Classics channel on YouTube. Unless, of course, you own the Blu Ray double bill…

It's on YouTube! I'd suggest watching this and yesterday's flick and many more cool monster monsters on the Cult Cinema Classics channel. From what I've seen, they have much nicer prints than many other sources. Keep well, everyone!