Monster of the Day #3697
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Monster of the Day #3697

We ended with our usual Tween-Fest Texas movie. This year's entry was 1983's Play Dead, which was shot in Corpus Christie. This has been hanging around my Blu Ray shelves for a while now, courtesy of one of Vinegar Syndrome's sales. Yvonne DeCarlo (!) plays a woman who's a witch or Satanist of something,…
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Not Monster of the Day #16
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Not Monster of the Day #16

We've had a "classics" slot for several years now, and as long as we have I've been meaning to show The Third Man. Ironically, I don't really want to talk about it because maybe one or two of you haven't seen it. If you haven't...do so. It's a legitimately great film. It's often heralded…
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Monster of the Day #3696
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Monster of the Day #3696

So after returning from dinner (barbecue, yum...the brisket!), we started the evening slate of movies. Sandy, again with his collection packed up in Utah, made only two requests this time around: Curse of the Faceless Man, watched that morning, and the Czech 1983 stop animated film The Pied Piper. Luckily, this was available for…
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Not Monster of the Day #15
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Not Monster of the Day #15

Elvis (and Mary Tyler Moore) with the little autistic girl that Dr. Elvis cures by hugging her. We closed out the day shift of movies with another old favorite, Change of Habit. It was, in fact, the first film I reviewed for the site, back in its KWAM days. I had posted a Giant…
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Not Monster of the Day #14
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Not Monster of the Day #14

(Oops, consider this Wednesday morning's post) With Sandy's movie collection still packed up in Utah, I got to pick most of the movies this year. The one I went back and forth on the most was 1966 What's Up Tiger Lily? Basically, then hot stand up comic Woody Allen and friends was hired to…
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Monster of the Day #3695
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Monster of the Day #3695

When Mondo Macabre releases a new film, I pay attention. When it's a crazy Indonesian action flick, I crack open the wallet. (Although, really, it's not that hard to get me to open that.) I had watched the first five minutes of 1981's The Warrior and, upon seeing a bad dummy made of rubber,…
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Monster of the Day #3694
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Monster of the Day #3694

OK, it took forever, but I finally mastered at least showing YouTube videos on Discord for our watch parties. The secret? You can't use the Discord app (??), you have to use the website. The only downside is that once you're in there it takes up the full screen so you can't get to…
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Monster of the Day #3693
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Monster of the Day #3693

Next up was The Black Room (1935), a gothic suspenser revolving around a family curse / prophecy. It stars the great Boris Karloff in a marvelous twin role (literally)--or a triple role, depending on how you look at it. Needless to say, he carries it all off with aplomb. Even better, the running time…
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Oh, right, Watch Party….

Sorry, everyone, I'm barely back in my groove following two nearly back to back vacation trips. Still, it's been like a month since our last Watch Party, so...tomorrow night? See you on Discord, folks.
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Monster of the Day #3692
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Monster of the Day #3692

We finally got out of the '50s and '60s, but there was continuity. Next up (I *think* Jamie and Mike suggested it?) was the French film The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010). It was a pre-WWI set Perils of Pauline type film with mummies--lots of mummies this weekend. I knew I wouldn't love…
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