Year: 2020

Following Jason X we had a good long stretch of films that don't concern us here--Blackbelt II, Mother May I Sleep with Danger (not the lesbian vampire one), Flash Gordon, Airborne. Then we got Wasp Woman, 63 minutes of black and white Roger Corman cheapie goodness.

So...I've finally seen a Friday the 13th movie. (Obviously I did see Freddy vs Jason, but I mean a 'real' one.) Meh. Hey, remember when all the monsters--Jason, Leprechaun, Hellraiser, Dracula--were going to outer space?

Skipping over the perennial showing of Plan 9, we moved on to the pretty much forgotten Kull the Conqueror, starring Kevin Sorbo. Sorbo's one of those guys who comes off well in lighter stuff like Hercules but can't really project a darker anti-hero side. On the other hand, this version of Kull is surprisingly…

So the Fest was going along swimmingly, what with Killer Klowns and Dr Phibes and then Revenge of the Ninja, one of Sho Kosugi's entertainingly goofy ninja movies. Then, our first (of luckily few) cinematic potholes, Al Adamson's Blood of Dracula's Castle. It's kind of meant to be funny, but Al Adamson funny. Let's…

Although I had last year shown The Abominable Dr. Phibes at T-Fest last year, I was not disappointed to see it at B-Fest. It was the first time in a while I saw it in on a theater screen. (The first time I saw it I was a pajama-wearing tot at the drive-in.) Phibes…

OK, I had to return to the living someday, unfortunately. Even worse, I have to return to work and have a TON of work to catch up to due to a month long SNAFU from before I took off for B-Fest. So I'll be working Saturday all day too I fear. On the other…

Thanks to Eric Hinkle to suggesting the comic, which I'd never heard of. OK, that's a fairly macho dude. Meanwhile, people start arriving for B-Fest tomorrow, so things will get hectic around here soon. Weather thankfully looks fairly good, maybe a bit of snow, but nothing major forecast at this point.

Is this the first film to bring Dracula into the modern day? Admittedly, we're talking Movie 50s, so it's not the most realistic take on 'modern day'. No, I guess that would be Son of Dracula, although again, that movie maintains a distinct timeless vibe about it. The Return of Dracula is no classic,…

The copy of Return of the Ape Man is a bit soft, but hey, that's how it looked on TV back in the day. It's a fun movie, goofy as heck (the image of Lugosi in a tux walking late night "city" streets holding a lit blowtorch whilst looking for a caveman is so…

The second of director Eugene Lourie's three sea monster movies, although when you start with Beast from 20,000 Fathoms there's nowhere to go but down. Originally titled, and inspiring much japery, as The Giant Behemoth, somebody finally figured out how silly that title is and now it seems to be called Behemoth the Sea…