Year: 2022

  So after Them! Jeff showed Hell's Belles, a rather weird biker film (Jeff LOVES biker films) about a guy following a biker gang who's leader stole his motorcycle. It takes a while for everyone to escalate to killing, and the hero is at times a gigantic a-hole. Pretty good, and interestingly formless in…

After Kaiju Mono, Chad R showed Used Cars, which he's been holding for a while. I hadn't seen it since the night it opened in theaters back in the day. (Remember when you used to go see movies all the time? Did we change, or did the movies?) It's pretty great. If you haven't…

So finally, Basement Fest 2022, the second edition of our B-Fest replacement (probably a stand alone next year, though), began. Many of the Jabootu crew were there: our hosts Paul (who actually sprung the old Ken's World of Awful Movies site on me back in prehistoric times, and thus led directly to Jabootu) and…

OK, we ran through B-Fest 2021 (attended, again, only by the Chads). Today we finish up Julie and Tim Fest. Then it's on to the second annual Basement Fest. I suspect that most of us will return to B-Fest next year, and that Basement Fest will also continue. Who knows, maybe Julie and Tim…

In a fitting moment, we followed James Cameron's first movie with Peter Jackson's first movie. It's insane to think that the guy who made the extremely aptly named Bad Taste for like $100 later directed the Lord of the Rings trilogy, a work that at present looks like it might be the last great…

Following The Vampire Happening we decamped for a luxuriant breakfast at Walker Bros. Then back to the mines. Next up was Sextette. I'll forgo making Mae West our subject today, but it was a near call. After that it was gory camp with James Cameron's directorial debut (mostly), Pirahna II The Spawning. It's really…

My old friend Jeff, who like the Rev came in for a whole week (although again, the Rev attended the actual B-Fest this same weekend), oddly contributed 1971's The Vampire Happening. I assume he found this on Amazon Prime, because this is an obscure one. It's a German vampire comedy (uh uh) that basically…

You know you've picked a wrong  path in life when you're watching Zardoz with a crowd for like the 6th time in your life. I don't know what we did to piss off Julie and Tim, but between Heartbeeps and Zardox..yikes. After that we again returned to Things Shown Before at B-Fest and watched…

So Friday's Watch Party, which was typically delightful, featured The Slime People. It's a slog, written, directed and starring Robert Hutton, for the first hour, livened only when they hide out in a real butcher shop and we get to see what meat cost back in the day. Less than now, in case your…