Month: June 2020

The Cult Movie Classics channel on YouTube has posted the original and still best version of the oft-filmed Phantom of the Opera, that movie that cemented Lon Chaney's status as cinema's first great horror star. Unless you're allergic to silent film, you could do far worse this long holiday weekend for a watch.

For a while it seemed like the Cult Classics Movie channel on YouTube had run out of 'new' schlock horror and sci-fi movies to post. They still had an impressive backlog, but weren't able to add to it. Now they seemed to be adding at least a few more titles, and good for them.…

After posting yesterday's MotD, How to Make a Monster, I discovered that Amazon Prime has a really nice print of the same movie available. As I've mentioned before, Prime has really upped their selection of grade A (and Z) schlock. If you're a subscriber, you could certainly spend a worse hour and a half…

If you have an hour and change this weekend, you could many worse ways to spend it then watching AIP's enjoyable meta How To Make a Monster.  The cameos at the end of the film are fantastic, although ultimately horrifying, considering how things end. Free to watch on YouTube. UPDATE: Although YouTube does have…

It's been awhile since I promoted The Greatest Movie Ever Made, but since there's a fan subtitled copy on YouTube, let's turn our eyes again on Ship of Monsters. Dammit, why didn't K. Gordan Murray bring this up north. Not because I'd have liked a dubbed version (although Murray dubs are so hilarious they're…

This is one of the more obscure Corman films, at least it was for me. By which I mean that unlike, say, Attack of the Giant Leeches, this didn't get a lot of TV play in Chicago back when I was a kid. I think I was in my 30s or 40s by the…

Hello! I hope everyone had a good weekend. The Cult Movie Classics channel on YouTube is getting back into  horror/sci-fi mode, although many of the recent additions are borderline monster films. This includes today's subject, caveman epic Eegah. As everyone who has seen the film knows, the real horror arises the moment star Arch…

  Yay, Friday! As a change of pace, no monster today. If you have Amazon Prime, though, you might want to give the documentary That Guy Dick Miller a look. On YouTube, Red Letter Media's Mike and Jay recently did a 40 minute Re:View on one of my all time personal kid's films, Willy…

The Cult Cinema Classics channel has added In the Year 2889. It's instructive (if a slog) to watch the difference between a B movie and a Z movie, and nothing illustrates this like watching one of Larry Buchanan's remakes of one of Roger Corman's cheapies from the 1950s. I always summed up Corman by…

Croaked Frog Monster from Hell is apparently just Bill Rebane's gillman movie Rana Legend of Shadow Lake, as retitled by Troma. It's a Bill Rebane movie, so don't expect the campy tone suggested by the new title and the Troma logo at the beginning of the movie. But hey, it's free on YouTube.