Month: May 2021

Few monsters this year. Sandy followed Horror and Hamsters with The Battles of Chief Pontiac (1952), a cheapie pre-American Revolution epic with Lon Chaney Jr as the titular, peace-seeking American Indian. There's a James Arness-y style frontier hero who seeks the same, but all is thwarted, not by the British, honest and beleagured, but…

We opened this year's spring T-Fest with The Brute Man, a neat efficient semi-horror starring the tragic Rondo Hatton.  Next we got our first monster film, the extremely weird anthology flick Horror and Hamsters. It delivers exactly what the title promises; short (if eventually not short enough) vignettes of horror with dollops of black…

Friday night continued with Fly Away Baby, a film from the Torchy Blaine B-movie series. Torchy was, as GalaxyJane noted (she provided the film from the set of them she owned), "Lois Lane who never met Clark Kent." It's weird, because we know there were never strong, spunky female characters until the current generations…

So, anyway, T(ween) Fest 2021. A roaring success, in that we had basically everyone return (who was just regularly available) after cancelling one event last year and having limited attendance--for obvious reasons--last fall. Back to normal, baby. Apparently the Houston Group of myself, Jeff and Kirk and Patty missed the very first unofficial flick…