Month: June 2022

After The Uninvited, we watch the extremely fun The Raven, the old one with Lugosi and Karloff. ("I'm the sanest man alive!") Then the crazy (I think) Thai film Killer Elephants, then the short Christmas Grotto, and then off to dinner. Back for the evening shift. We started with the Wakaliwood flick Bad Black…

We ended Friday with Wizard's Curse, a very fun Chinese sorcery film. I don't remember any monsters, it was more like Natural Born Killers with a pair of psychotic lovers menacing some folks. Foreign Fest continued on the actual Saturday Fest with Karate Girl, another extremely fun female revenge film that happily somethings verges…

Friday continued. The children all left, and entertainment left with them. Arthur, Sandy's son, showed the French 'film' Devil Story. It's about 20 minutes of movie stretched out to an hour and a half. There's a mutant guy in an SS uniform who slasher kills some folks, and then the real slow down begins.…

The reason we held this year's edition of T(ween) Fest in the summer, instead of the spring, was that Arthur Petersen and his wife and daughters--who used to live in Dallas but years ago relocated to Utah--were able to visit at the same time. So there were hordes of grandkids around. To entertain them,…

Sorry for the absence; I got a bronchial bug (not Covid) and it's been super hot here--my A/C is set for 78 degrees, and it's running now at 4:00 AM in the pitch dark--and just generally blech. So the next movie on the Friday before the official T(ween)-Fest was Child of Peach (1987), a…

So we started Friday's off-day viewing. Sandy had procured a copy of the exceedingly obscure Deafula, which is exactly what you think it is, except that involves a were-Dracula. (That putty nose!) Otherwise it's a very, very weird vampire film all in American Sign Language. The only thing I can think of to compare…

Well, back to reality. And worse than that, to work. And time to play catch-up. Groan. Nod to Chad R, who diligently recorded what we watched down in Dallas. The folks who got there early, on Thursday, watched the 2019 Chinese epic MegaCrocodile. This was crazy in a way that I personally find a…

Speaking of films the poster tries to make look way more exciting then they are... Off to Dallas tomorrow. Consider this an open thread until my return by Thursday next week. Have a great one, everybody. I look forward to seeing some of you this weekend.