Monster of the Day #3998
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Monster of the Day #3998

T(ween)-Fest 2026 was nearly over; most everyone was heading home the next day, including the Petersens who now live in Provo. We ended Monday with a classic, 1985's Mr. Vampire. As usual, it's an entirely neat and
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Monster of the Day #3997
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Monster of the Day #3997

As Monday continued, Tween-Fest 2026 was winding up. We all know the '70s were rife with TV movies / pilots for occult or macabre detective shows. This year we watched Spectre, which starred Robert Culp. I hadn't actually seen this before, and it was pretty great.
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Monster of the Day #3996
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Monster of the Day #3996

Friday's Discord Watch Party subject was Killdozer, adapted from the Theodore Sturgeon story. Several grumbled about how boring it was, but once we get about half an hour in there's a fair amount of vehicular mayhem and a very solid veteran cast and a lean 75 minute running time. The print we watched off…
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Monster of the Day #3995
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Monster of the Day #3995

Ugh, Never write these in a hurry right before leaving for work. Fight for Survival, mentioned in the last MotD, did kick up Sunday, But then I skipped columns and went right to Monday, including our last MotD feature Bloodbath at the House of Death. Anyway, after Fight for Survival was the German 1943…
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Monster of the Day #3994
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Monster of the Day #3994

Sunday was quite a smorgasbord. We started with Chinese martial arts film Fight for Survival (1977), moved on to the extremely meta Thai western / tragic romance film Tears of the Black Tiger (2000), and then I showed a weirdly obscure comic horror movie Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984), It's hit and…
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Monster of the Day #3993
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Monster of the Day #3993

The last movie (we were running too late to watch the Texas movie Logan's Run) was Extra Terrestrial Visitors, which is basically the MST3K subject Pod People without the commentary. In case you ever wondered, yeah, it's that dumb even when Joel and the Bots aren't mocking it. Not everyone had seen it, though,…
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Monsters of the Day #3992
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Monsters of the Day #3992

We got back from dinner pretty late, and only watched a couple of films before wrapping things up. Sandy provided the first one, the Czech horror / fantasy anthology Prague Nights (1969). It was stylish and laden with folklore and nudity. My favorite chapter involved a golem. I think it's on Tubi or one…
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Monster of the Day #3991
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Monster of the Day #3991

Greeeeeen Acres is the place to be!1964's Monster of the Opera. This one was on me. I watched the first ten minutes, and it was a delirious delight. Sadly, I stopped watching right before it got boring, the normal Italian format of endless dance numbers and people slooooowly walking through hallways / tunnels with…
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Monster of the Day #3990
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Monster of the Day #3990

We opened the films with the Shaw Brothers classic Come Drink with Me. Then Sandy showed the quite wacky silent film Seven Footprints to Satan (1929). Next was Jabootu subject Orca. The photo here is misleading, though. The real monster is...Man.
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