Monster of the Day #3313
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Monster of the Day #3313

We ended Friday night, the eve of T-Fest 18 (already covered) with another foreign vampire film. This was one of China's uniformly marvelous hopping vampire films, Mr. Vampire 4. You just cannot go wrong with that series, merging horror, comedy, martial arts, a soupcon of romance and lots and lots of fascinating Chinese sorcery.…
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Monster of the Day #3312
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Monster of the Day #3312

So we started Friday morning. Sandy had bought a bunch of Tod Slaughter films, and we watched his version of Sweeny Todd. Slaughter was a stage villain who specialized in extremely creaky melodramas and eventually brought his act to the cinema (mostly because of tax breaks for British productions) and continued to delightfully play…
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Watch Party this Friday

Didn't give enough notice for the last one, so we'll try again on Friday. Then another two weeks later, than a break for Christmas. Anyway, you know the drill, 9:00 EST yada yada. Have a great weekend, everyone.
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Monster of the Day #3311
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Monster of the Day #3311

  OK, so we ran down the actual T-Fest line-up. However, we watch a lot of stuff off hours as well. A nod to Chad R, T-Fest's official historian and secretary for keeping track of everything. The first film we watched, on Thursday night before the Fest, was the shot on video Each Time…
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Monster of the Day #3310
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Monster of the Day #3310

Japan has released a big screen Shin Godzilla movie. I don't think it's as grim as Shin Godzilla, but it shouldn't be in any case. Fathom events (check their website) will be showing for one night each the dubbed and subbed versions in January for those interested.
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Watch Party tonight….

Unless no one is interested considering I waited until the last minute to announce. If you feel like it, say yay or nay below. For those who do want to attend, I'll "see" you there tonight, 9:00 EST per usual.
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Ken Recommends Black Friday sales on Amazon…

Time sensitive, obviously. I'm going to highlight a couple of anime series (I know, sorry), because Amazon has a zillion things on radical sale today and there's too much normal content to try to get to much of it. OK, OK, I will say you could do FAR worse than the fantastic '50s TV…
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Watch Party tomorrow….

I should have done one last week. However, I'd just returned from Texas, and had developed a bit of a travel cold, and frankly just forgot. Then I forgot to mention doing one this week earlier than today. Still, I think I'll do one tomorrow, and if there's a really small attendance available, I'll…
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Monster of the Day #3309
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Monster of the Day #3309

We wrapped out with our traditional (at least in the ballpark of a) T-Rex movie, with Harryhausen's classic Valley of Gwangi. This was the last classic we hadn't gotten around to after 18 years. I'm starting to think maybe we should find a new theme for the capper once we hit out 21st Fest.…
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Monster of the Day #3308
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Monster of the Day #3308

So weirdly I myself showed Conquest because it looked goofy (it was made during that period when Italian sword and sorcery films were incorporating Star Wars-y stuff, like the Wookies above, ala the Lou Ferrigno Hercules movies) and I had just bought a heavily discounted copy of the Blu Ray. The film still looks…
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