Year: 2024

I know I saw Strange Invaders (1983) back in the day, but I can't remember much at all about it. Clearly generic aliens (on purpose, I'm assuming) that call to the mind the rather more memorable Buckaroo Bonzai. That said, I think SI had a rep as an affectionate throwback to '50s sci-fi invasion…

Probably a movie that gets mixed up a lot with The Unnameable is The Unholy, but a priest (Ben Cross of Chariots of Fire and the Dark Shadows reboot) confronting a sexy demon. It was the '80s, man, they were all sexy. What a cast, though! Cross, Ned Beatty, Hal Holbrook...

Roger Corman (strictly a producer by then) was not afraid to follow trends. In fact, he insisted upon it. So Humanoids of the Deep contained copious gore and nudity and an entire plot built around monsters raping women, who then were ripped apart from the inside during, er, monster birth. (Wonder where they got…

I haven't seen everything, of course, but I feel I've seen a solid majority of all English language horror movies made prior to, oh, 1980. Then the video age came about and I gave up even trying. So I haven't seen a lot of the 80s stuff (plus it was the age of gore,…

Sorry, computer issues plus getting up a bit late, so no MotD yesterday. Friday's Watch Party was sparsely attended. I hope it's because people were busy for holiday stuff (like Gamera) but I know the problems we've had with Kast (since Amazon dropped their Watch Party feature) have chased people off. Or maybe it's…

Never saw Night of the Creeps, but I think it's well regarded and it has Tom Atkins in it. One of these days, maybe.

The 80s was the last golden age for monster movies. They really seem to have fallen out of favor. (I think because most monsters are done via CGI now rather than played by actors.) Still, I haven't seen a lot of these because it was also the golden age of gore movies, which was…

I don't know Art, but I know what I like.