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Discord Watch Party update & Volunteer request….

OK, so as noted, we're going to Discord. Now, because a Watch Together (as they call it) is but one of a million things Discord does, it's insanely complicated, at least to a tech doofus like me. So far, I've been unable to figure out how to run an Amazon Prime move on it.…
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Monster of the Day #3677
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Monster of the Day #3677

After surviving my second, and hopefully final, viewing of Devil Story (available on Blu Ray on Amazon for a bargain price of $35), we moved on to one of my picks, Matilda. Not the Danny Devito film from the 90s, but the boxing kangeroo film from 1978, with big stars like Elliot Gould and…
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Monster of the Day #3676
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Monster of the Day #3676

So I wasn't expected to speed run through B-Fest 2025, but hey, few monsters. So on to Basement Fest 2025. Joe Bannerman, erstwhile B-Master and proprietor of Opposable Thumbs Films, hates us all deeply. Since we won't let him show Things ever year (and he would), he picked Devil Story, a movie Chad R…
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Postponing Watch Party…

We were too busy last week to get me organized on Discord, so I'm going to try it this weekend. I'm hoping to avoid using Kast again, since it's rife with issues. Sorry for the delay.
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Monster of the Day #3675
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Monster of the Day #3675

Wow, about half way through and we ran dry of monsters until the final film. After Night of the Comet: If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? Ron Ormond is a fascinating figure. In the 50s he made from (at the time) notably sleazy films that presumably played in the Pussycat circuit. Then…
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Monster of the Day #3674
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Monster of the Day #3674

Sorry not to have checked in yesterday; I was so tired after having to get up for work that I couldn't rouse the energy. Even so, B-Fest was great, and so was last weekend's Basement Fest. But man, I'm going to be zonked for a while. Back to B-Fest. Last we left, it was…
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Monster of the Day #3673
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Monster of the Day #3673

The third film was my favorite this year, Shack Out on 101. It's set in a seedy diner and is a '50s anti-Commie espionage film. I've heard about this for years, and actually bought it on DVD a while ago, but hadn't gotten around to watching it. It is...weird. Like all of the sudden…
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Monster of the Day #3672
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Monster of the Day #3672

OK, so B-Fest 2025. We had a small group; it was me and Chad R. To my delight, though, Andrew Borntreger of Badmovies.Org, who I must not have seen for 20 years (man, I'm old), attended with his friend Todd, who was an absolutely terrific guy with a great sense of humor. So that…
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Thinking of moving Watch Parties to Discord….

Chad R has nominated Discord as a superior host for Watch Parties. (Which wouldn't be hard, as Kast is kinda krap.) It looks a bit complicated to Luddites like me, but Chad and my friend Jeff are coming in for Basement Fest, and if we find a spare minute, I'll ask them to run…
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