Month: December 2025

Happy New Year's everyone! God bless you all.God also bless mad geniuses like Paul Blaisdell and whoever built that giant crab prop seen yesterday. I'm sorry, I know, CGI can be authentically great. But I will never, ever love a CGI monster as I love stuff like this.

I wanted to find a still from Port Sinister, a very obscure cheapie treasure hunting movie from 1953. At one point as the characters are exploring a cave they are assaulted by a doberman-sized crab (puppet). Sadly, the film--which honestly isn't very good--is all but lost. I've seen one print of it, and it's…

I'm sure at least some of you are aware of Brett Piper, low budget director and special effects maven. More to the point, Piper is someone who (like all of us) loves stop-motion effects. Particularly in the mid 2000-teens he made a series of very cheap shot on video films featuring what I assume…

Merry Christmas, everyone!Thanks to all of you for continuing to come to what is, I must admit, a basically dormant site. Thanks especially for those poor souls who join me on my inept Discord Watch Parties. It's a cumbersome mechanism for those, but while I sometimes lament the loss of the far niftier Amazon…

Christmas is in two days. Crazy.

Galaxy Jane and her husband Jamie were nice enough to send me this picture from their wedding, so I thought I'd share it with you guys.We had the final Discord Watch Party of 2025 last Friday. It's awkward to do it (as all things on Discord seem to be), but I figured out how…

Well, that was nearly it for monsters at this year's T-Fest weekend. Following Attack of the Puppet People, we watched Police Raid (1947), an interesting if not spectacular crime thriller made in the East German (i.e., Soviet) sector of Berlin after the war, by studio DEFA. There's a set of films like available now…

The next two Sunday movies at T-Fest were Holy Weapons, a satisfyingly crazy Hong Kong martial arts epic, and Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020). The latter is a modestly-budgeted Japanese film but a REALLY good time travel movie. Sort of. If you like that sort of thing, definitely check it out. Then it…

We went from Demon of Mount Oe to another foreign obscurity, 1950's Heart of Stone, made by the East German film company DEFA. In other words, it was supervised by the Communist Party, and thus is unsurprisingly not very favorable to Capitalism. On the other hand, they don't ram it down your throats, so…