Year: 2020

The Cult Cinema Classics channel on YouTube has been on another tear lately. They don't exclusively post horror/sci-fi (today's posts are Fairbanks' silent The Black Pirate, Jose Ferrer's Oscar-winning turn as Cyrano de Bergerac, and the Vincent Price noir-ish thriller Shock), but they do put them on waves. In the last four days or…

  Nothing says fun like a goofy giant bug movie. In this case I mean that literally, since the titular beastie is a fabric covered Volkswagen Bug. There is no escape from a monster that gets that kind of gas mileage! On (duh) the Cult Cinema Classics channel on YouTube. Everyone have a great…

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…