Monster of the Day #3681
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Monster of the Day #3681

After our extended breakfast break at Walker Bros (one of the reasons I think so many people have cleaved to Basement Fest over B-Fest), we returned to start the Saturday proper films. Jeff contributed the (by the standards of the day) pre-plane crash, sleazy Ron Ormond flick The Exotic Ones (1968), also known by…
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Monster of the Day #3680
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Monster of the Day #3680

So after Four Skulls, we shifted to our traditional brainmelter film, we now being roughly 1:30 in the morning. Oddly, I did not provide this one (although I had one on standby), but rather our host Paul kicked in with Black Moon (1975), a surreal French Louis Malle flick about a young woman who…
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Monster of the Day #3679
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Monster of the Day #3679

The Four Skulls of Jonathon Drake used to play on Channel 32 when I was a kiddie. It undoubtedly was featured on Screaming Yellow Theater, the home of the original Svengoolie, Jerry G. Bishop, in the early '70s. When it came out on DVD many years ago I was elated, and it was one…
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Monster of the Day #3678
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Monster of the Day #3678

So after the highly kid-friendly antics of Matilda, we turned to classic '80s cheese. Chad R selected Without Warning (1980), often cited as Predator before there was Predator. A super tall alien (Kevin Peter Hall, who in fact indeed also played the Predator) uses toothy organic frisbees to hunt down rural humans. A rare…
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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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