Year: 2020

I learned last night that the fine folks at Arrow Video are putting out Gamera the Complete Collection this summer, a set to rival or even surpass Criterion's recent Godzilla set. The price is hefty, of course ($130 on Amazon), but you get 13 movies on 8 discs, with the Japanese and American language…

Mausoleum is a classic '80s gonzo supernatural horror movie, ala The Jar or Supernatural. Green glowing eyes pervade, there's great latex monster prosthetics, gore effects, there's a bit of a name cast (by the standards of folks like us, anyway) of Marjoe Gortner and Bobbie Bresee and Bobbie Bresee's Naked Breasts. (Again, the '80s.) …

In Bill Warren's absolutely essential survey of 1950s sci-fi films, Keep Watching the Skies!, he actually continues to cover films from the first couple of years of the 1960s because they're fundamentally '50s' films in spirit.  1961's Phantom Planet proves his argument. It's wonky and a bit dull but really feels like a '50s…

There's a really nice (pirated, no doubt, so see it while you can) print of The Boogens on YouTube. It's one of those little gems you stumble across occasionally, that manages to nail so many basic things--nice script, characterization, good acting, some extremely nice sets--in a way that makes you wonder why so many…

Cult Cinema Classics hasn't (gasp) added a monster movie in the last day or two. They did add the goofy Vincent Price proto-Giallo The Bat, but there's no monster there. Still fun, though. As it turns out, though, there are like, I don't know, dozens of movies on YouTube from sources other than CCC.…

I know what you're thinking. But they didn't even have CGI back then. How did they do it? OK, it's no Gorilla at Large (that movie is great), but if you only watch one movie where Raymond Burr might be turning into a gorilla, make it Bride of the Gorilla. Available for free watching…

FoJ Gamera977 suggested Sector 7. There was a time (I'm sure I've said this before) when I looked at my thousands of DVDs and Blu Rays and thought, why did I bother. Everything's on streaming. That's not true, though. I know Sector 7 used to be available somewhere, but now it's not on Amazon…

I looked for a picture of Maximilian from The Black Hole (which I must admit I've never seen), but I couldn't find a menacing one. I think it might be available on Disney Plus. Anyway, in lieu of that, here's the monster from the obscure monster slasher flick The Slayer from 1982. Available for…