Year: 2020

A Japanese poster for Ghosthouse! Ha! It sure makes the film look a lot better than it is.

Yes, if a poster ever summed up with experience of watching Roman Polanski's Fearless Vampire Killers, surely it was this one.

Oh, Japan. I'm pretty sure the posters for American horror films from 1960 didn't look like this. Of course, the film's trailer makes it look a lot more grueling than American horror films from that era either. This is Jikoku ("Hell"), and that seems to sum up the films.

Have I featured this before? VERY early stop animated dinosaur from the 1923 (!) Buster Keaton movie Three Ages. So that's two years before Willis O'Brien's Lost World was released. The goofy dinosaur design also looks forward to the Ringo Starr comedy Caveman. The dino appears very briefly, and just near the start of…

Wheee, another Monday. Those weekends sure fly by, and here in the midwest next weekend will be an hour shorter, so that that's fun. We're a few weeks away from Quiet Place 2 coming out. The first movie is on Amazon Prime, so I'll have to give that a look. The second film is…

Ahh, giant shark. That's the stuff.

It's a dinosaur and a skellington! It's like they made this cover for me.

The penultimate movie was Midnight Madness, a one time cable mainstay that inspired the 'treasure hunts' my own group of friends ran waaaaay back in high school. Not a great film, but a nice cheerful one. For the last film we (quite nearly) returned to old tradition. Back in the day B-Fest always ended…