Year: 2020

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!

With people spending a little more time at home (I'm still going into work, so other than stopping to sit down and grab a bite, this whole thing isn't really doing that for me), let's get back to Things You Can Watch on YouTube. This is one of several films padded with footage Roger…

The '80s really were the last heyday for practical effects monsters. As noted yesterday, I haven't seen TerrorVision, but this thing was apparently huge and required several people to operate it. Although I wouldn't trade his seminal work for anything, it does make you wonder what Paul Blaisdell could have whipped up with more…

Ugh, Monday. Well, for me anyway, it's off to work. Although again there are only a couple of us in a big space now, so the distancing thing isn't that difficult. I hope the rest of you are keeping well and occupied. What are people watching. I hope you're sitting down, but I've been…

Stuart Gordon has passed away. I'm getting up there, so I remember when filmmakers from the '40s and '50s started dying, now it's people remembered from the '80s. I never really felt that Re-Animator or From Beyond (admittedly, I haven't seen that one) really 'felt' like Lovecraft, but man, Dagon sure does. Great movie.…

Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster, Werewolf by Night, and now the most horrifying monster of all...a clown. You know, when I was a kid clowns were considered fun. I don't know when that huge cultural shift happened where they're just considered creepy now. Weird. Keep well, everyone.

I hope everyone is well! Did Warren takes adds for these, considering they were highlighting a competitors products? Power Records went pretty heavy on the monster thing, including the super-hero issues they choose. I was wondering if they advertised as well in Creepy and so on, and if that was part of the reason…

OK, that's got to be Mike Ploog. I checked (after Cullen Waters noted the same thing yesterday, credit to him), and unsurprisingly several (all?) of the Power Records performances can be found on YouTube. Enjoy!