Year: 2023

By the time The Pack ended we were heading into the home stretch. The third from last film was the Sweeny Todd-inspired The Undertaker and His Pals, presented by our co-host Paul. It’s a short little gore comedy that basically plays like a Herschell Gordon Lewis film if they were more successfully darkly humorous.…

One thing about having a group of, shall we say, knowable B-movie experts making the selections is that we end up with a very please mix of eras and genres. Not everyone is defaulting to ‘50s sci fi or ‘80s action flicks. Everyone was meant to have a pick (I had two; I picked…

Following the debacle of Things (which I’ve always argued should be called “Stuff,” since its one of those plotless, one damn thing after another pictures), things got better. Of course, they pretty much had to. So I’ll amend that statement. Things got significantly better. That’s because GalaxyJane choose a Pam Grier movie, Friday Foster.…

So after Kraa we completely switched gears. Chad R showed Murder He Says, a 1945 murder comedy starring Fred MacMurray that's probably the best thing you're going to find as a cofeature for Arsenic and Old Lace. Ma Kettle also stars in it. Although MacMurray later was know for playing ditherers (Absent Minded Professor)…

Well, we never did explicate what our little group watched at Basement Fest '23. The first Basement Fest was held because they had cancelled B-Fest because of Covid. However, a goodly portion of the regular B-Fest people decided they liked this one better--we pick the movies, my friends Paul and Holly have a swank…

We watched a Gamera movie several months ago at a Watch Party. However, I barely got Howling II in after it had been on my list for a long time, because it turned out it was less than two weeks from leaving Amazon. I would have felt like a prat if we had had…

Empire of the Ants is fine, but it has its problems. One is personal; I’ve gone on record many times about how I generally don’t like side stories in my sci-fi films, and that includes the “ants enslaving humans” thing. So that’s one more reason to prefer Food of the Gods; it’s about giant…

Bert I Gordon last made a movie with monsters in 1965, and that one, Village of the Giants, wasn’t really a monster movie. After that we branched out in different genres. And although he did make a horror movie in 1972 (starring Orson Welles!), it didn’t have a monster in it. So it was…