Monster of the Day #3307

Monster of the Day #3307

We finished up the day shift with Virgins from Hell, a pretty fun and predictably crazy Indonesian action flick about a wonderfully garish female biker gang fighting a jungle crimelord. The first and third acts are great, the middle section, which tries as hard as it can to be sleazy in a country that…
Monster of the Day #3306

Monster of the Day #3306

Sandy decided to bust out his William Grefe box set--we live in an age of wonders, and were just glad he didn't bust out his Al Adamson box set (again). In the end he opted for Whiskey Mountain, a Hickploitation film starring Christopher George and his wife, frequent costar Susan Day George. Or so…
Monster of the Day #3305

Monster of the Day #3305

Whew! Back to the real world, and sadly, a Texas-sized pile of make up work at the office. Oh, well. I'll talk about the off-Fest showings later, but we started T-Fest 18 with a cheese classic, The X From Outer Space. Needless to say, it was met with great enthusiasm, and remained one of…

Sorry everyone…

I didn't meant to disappear like that. I could take the easy excuse and say I was recovering from watching Staying Alive on Amazon Prime. It...wasn't that good. Really, though, I was just elliptically aware that this weekend's T-Fest was fast approaching. And I barely planned nor prepared for it. So this week that's…
Monster of the Day #3304

Monster of the Day #3304

In honor of Godzilla Day yesterday, Toho posted on the Godzilla Channel on YouTube a new short, Godzilla vs Gigan Rex. It's very fun, and it's always thrilling to hear Ifukube's music. It's also got a great neato Godzilla design. They quickly pulled down the Godzilla vs Hedorah short earlier this year, so watch…
Monster of the Day #3303

Monster of the Day #3303

Ah, Coffin Joe. Sort of Brazil's Paul Naschy, José Mojica Marins also ran into censorship issues--especially due to his disdain for the Catholic Church--but his movies are really weird and personal and quite fun. Coffin Joe has a lot of political and philosophical issues, and they are fully on display in the series. These…
Monster of the Day #3302

Monster of the Day #3302

I didn't get around to my Island of Terror Blu Ray this last weekend--I wanted a Cushing film--but I just saw the remarkably accurate poster art and decided to post it. I don't know which country provided this, although the German poster is just a blonde with big naked boobs and a sort of…
Monster of the Day #3301

Monster of the Day #3301

The second movie we watched Friday was Exorcist II: The Heretic. It's as goofy as a film as you'd expect from the guy who directed Zardoz. What were they thinking? About an hour in I realized it might actually be dumber than Return of the Ape Man. Burton is fully in his awful period,…