Monster of the Day #3261
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Monster of the Day #3261

Here was the bog standard poster, repurposed as the DVD cover. It's undoubtedly the most representational of the posters. I've seen this film often since I was a kid, and am still vaguely weirded out by monsters gunning people down. The film is on YouTube for those who haven't seen it. Terror Beneath the…
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Monster of the Day #3260
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Monster of the Day #3260

Here's another Euro poster for Terror Beneath the Sea. This one is less cheaty than yesterday's, which implied mass carnage and giant monsters destroying cities. This definitely makes the film look more epic than it really is, but within the proper bounds of poster art at the time. Of course, the hero is race…
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Monster of the Day #3259

This is my favorite kind of poster, where they not only (of course) fix the monster's goody cross-eyed expression--a very weird design choice--but where they decide to portray the monsters as giant. I guess it's because it was a Japanese movie? Maybe? Anything, the art itself is gorgeous.
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Watch Party tonight….

I'm kind of going back between two movies, but I think either one will work. And I can always show the other one next time. Anyway, 9:00 EST / 8:00 CST. See ya, I hope!
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Monster of the Day #3258
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Monster of the Day #3258

  Well, there's a poster that knows how to put it's best, uh, foot forward. Of course, they is also the (?) French poster. Apparently the French also like guys wearing veyr bold lipstick. Again, horror comedy teams early on usually make a horror comedy. Having already made three--yep--service comedies, it was time for…
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Monster of the Day #3257
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Monster of the Day #3257

I think this was the second A&C movie. Again, horror comedies were a popular gateway genre for movie acts. I think it was service comedy, this, and then another service comedy. Another, this is a fun film and serves as a dry run for several memorable routines later uses in A&C Meet Frankenstein.
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Monster of the Day #3256
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Monster of the Day #3256

Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve was a comically pompous (but loveable) supporting character on the Fibber McGee and Molly radio series--the show with the closet--who blew up and got spun off into his own radio series and even a small skein of B-movies. Inevitably, one of them was a (very mild) comic horror movie. Shockingly, this…
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Monster of the Day #3255
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Monster of the Day #3255

It's a little unfair to compare with a B cheapie like The Gorilla, but if you want a MUCH better Old Dark House comedy I'd suggest Bob Hope's Ghost Breakers or his Cat and the Canary remake.
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Monster of the Day #3254
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Monster of the Day #3254

So I started watching The Gorilla (1939) on Amazon Prime. It was indeed completely a knock-off of Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Bat, and Cat and the Canary, and just like Shh! The Octopus, and so on. A pretty standard Old Dark House movie with a killer in an animal suit who sends his victims…
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