Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom in theaters on Nov 8th….
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Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom in theaters on Nov 8th….

On November 8th (like in two weeks!) Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom will hit theaters. I should have made this suggestion earlier, but here’s my pitch. One of the few anime I feel comfortable suggesting to non-anime fans (albeit nerdy ones) is Overlord. The set-up is bog standard isekai, featuring a gamer who finds himself…
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Monster of the Day #3511
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Monster of the Day #3511

Sandy ended the evening by showing Terrified (2017), an Argentine horror film about three paranormal investigators who set up investigations in three different, nearby houses. Things...don't go well. The investigators are weirdly imperturbable, but man it's better than everyone screaming all the time. We watched this on Tubi, maybe? One of the streaming services.…
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Monster of the Day #3510
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Monster of the Day #3510

After Vampire Circus I showed one of several recently bought Hong Kong blu rays, Righting Wrongs, This is about a vigilante prosecutor pursued by a hardass cop played by Cynthia Rothrock. It could have been a little tighter, and there are several endings available, but the fights were pretty good and that's what it's…
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Monster of the Day #3509
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Monster of the Day #3509

While we were on Amazon, we watched Vampire Circus, which several of us, including myself, had never seen. It's no Captain Kronos, but as an experimental Hammer vampire film it's certainly better than their moribund Dracula movies were at the time. I will say the film was packed with nudity--well, the first half hour…
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Monster of the Day #3508
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Monster of the Day #3508

OK, so Texas and the 20th (!) T-Fest. Along with 15 T(ween)-Fests. I haven't missed one yet. I arrived at DFW airport, and the arriving Mary and Jamie were extremely kind enogh to drive me to Sandy's house. Sandy and family have decamped to Utah since the last Fest, although they returned to Dallas…
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I’m alive / NO WATCH PARTY TONIGHT….

Hey, everyone, I'm back home but in a post-trip fog and about to stumble to work. I'm a bit too out of it to run a watch party tonight, as I'd rather just come home and go to sleep. Sorry about that. We'll do one next week instead, with another Halloween appropriate film like…
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Monster of the Day #3505
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Monster of the Day #3505

Halloween approaches! Here's to Milicent Patrick, the woman who designed and was in charge of the Creature of the Black Lagoon suit. Department head Bud Westmore got the official credit, but Ms. Patrick did the work and has been vindicated by history. Her design is so perfect that fishmen movies have struggled to get…
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Monster of the Day #3504
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Monster of the Day #3504

  There are surprisingly few monsters on the covers of Terror Tales, but man, there are lots of half-dressed (if that) beauties about to split in half by buzzsaws or have acid dripped on them or other grotesque forms of mayhem. And these are not covers where a heroic chap is bursting onto the…
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