Monster of the Day #3454
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Monster of the Day #3454

San Francisco? Los Angeles? New York? Chicago? So many candidates! Man, these are consistently dynamite. Seriously, how can you not love this stuff? Happy Friday Eve, everyone!
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Monster of the Day #3453

OK, OK, here's my dime already. Don't know why, I'm having problems with some of these thumbnails. Oh, well. Happy Wednesday, everyone.  
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Video Cheese: La Llorona (1933)
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Video Cheese: La Llorona (1933)

British boutique Blu Ray company Indicator has really appeared on my radar recently. This is mostly because they’ve started to release American (i.e., Region 1) editions of their wares. Recently I invested in their slick box set of the first two El Santos movies. Then there was Mexican Macabre, a collection of some of…
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Monster of the Day #3452
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Monster of the Day #3452

Man, again, wonderful painting. Thanks to everyone who showed up for the watch party. We watched out Jabootu subject The Hell Squad, a particularly inept (but somehow lovable) '80s action flick. Thank you, Jennifer Lawrence! I said it during the show several times, but I'll say it again:  It was a thousand times more…
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Monster of the Day #3451
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Monster of the Day #3451

I remember this one! This was the Christmas novelette where The Spider saved Santa Claus after Pitch invaded his gold and crystal palace in outer space. The Devil's big mistake was interrupting The Spider and his girlfriend at their naughty time. Yay, Friday! Watch something stupid this weekend. I can help with that, actually.…
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Monster of the Day #3449
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Monster of the Day #3449

Back to pulp covers tomorrow. When I returned to work yesterday, I had forgotten that I had bought a ticket for last night to finally see Princess Mononoke. I had seen Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind a few months ago (allowing me to finally get a hilarious joke sequence in Bocchi the…
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Monster of the Day #3448
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Monster of the Day #3448

The Spider was a more homicidal The Shadow knock-off. It tended to feature a typical mix of madmen, gangsters, yellow perils and the like, which a fairly small number of more fantastic foes. However, there's always metaphors, and as we know, few things sell as well as cover art featuring skeletons. I like to…
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Please resend email addresses for Watch Parties

Hey, everyone. Our friend Jeff is in town, so I course I made him swap out my "new" computer that's been sitting on the floor for two years. Anyway, I have to reassemble the document with everyone's email addresses for watch parties, so please resend your appropriate email to ken@jabootu.com. Thanks!
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Monster of the Day #3447
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Monster of the Day #3447

SPOILER ALERT: Above image telegraphs the resolution of the film's extremely hard to predict romantic triangle. Unsurprisingly, all the best stop-animated monsters from the '50s came courtesy of Ray Harryhausen. (Well, and Willis O'Brien.) The rest of the movie is a snooze--you definitely doing something wrong when Kenneth Tobey can't elevate your film*--but man,…
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