Monster of the Day #3529
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Monster of the Day #3529

I couldn't find a foreign poster for this, but hey, the American poster was very nice. I'd say it's better than the film, but again, Corman films are deceptively good. Sure, if you compare it Forbidden Planet, it's not a great movie. However, if you compare it to other sci-fi cheapies from the '50s,…
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Monster of the Day #3528

  Of course, Roger Corman started his career during the glory age of the movie poster. Famously, AIP would come up with a title, if it did well with distributors would commission a poster, and if that did well would actually hire someone to write a script. I'll say the Mexican poster is certainly…
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Monster of the Day #3527
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Monster of the Day #3527

Last night I checked off another Ghibli film, having seen The Secret World of Arrietty in a theater. Oddly, it's based on English author's Mary Norton's 1952 book The Borrowers, about very small people who live under humanity's noses and "borrow" things from them. Taking a thimble to use as a bucket, that sort…
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Monster of the Day #3526
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Monster of the Day #3526

Roger Corman left the director's chair after the WWI aerial warfare flick Von Richthofen and Brown in 1971. Starting New World Pictures, he segued into producing full time, figuring he could make more money that way. The cliche in Hollywood is that everyone wants to direct. Well, Corman directed 50 plus films, and apparently…
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Monster of the Day #3525
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Monster of the Day #3525

As Corman's Poe series started to wane (if not artistically), his use of monsters was nearly over. Most of the Poe films didn't feature monsters per se. The Masque of Red Death, generally considered the best of the bunch, featured the ultimate monster: Death. The series ended next with the still pretty great The…
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Monster of the Day #3524
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Monster of the Day #3524

1963. Roger Corman, despite working on (comparatively) bigger movies, still directed five films that year. Only one (The Young Racers) wasn't a horror film, The Raven, The Terror, The Man With the X-Ray Eyes and The Haunted Palace. None except the last really featured a monster per se. The Haunted Palace was sold as…
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Monster of the Day Postponed….

Sorry, the editing function at Imgur has been messed up the last couple of days. After spending ten minutes the trying to get the still the right size I now have to leave for work. Back this afternoon or tomorrow morning. Have a great day, folks!
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Monster of the Day #3523
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Monster of the Day #3523

Sorry, I brainfarted on doing this yesterday. So I had another movie lined up for the Watch Party. However, it was on Amazon Prime (which we did on Kast before) and either I had glitch issues or they changed it so you can't so Prime movies anymore. So less than 15 minutes before show…
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