Monster of the Day #1904

Updated on March 26, 2019 By Ken Begg 12 Comments

RIP, B-Movie hyphenate Larry Cohen. While he created mini-classics in several genres, such as Blaxploitation (Black Caesar), he’s most associated with horror due to niftily-scripted flicks like It’s Alive (the baby one, obviously) and The Stuff, not to mention today’s subject. The world Cohen worked in is no more, and thus obviously he will never be replaced.

David Carradine was just happy to be there.

I’m off to visit some family. I’ll be back home next week, then leaving for Dallas. I hope to see a bunch of you soon.

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  • Eric Hinkle

    Larry Cohen died? Blast. He made some fun flicks.

    Also, that poster looks even better than the actual movie.

    PS: Have fun and travel safely, Ken!

  • Gamera977

    I was told ‘P’ or ‘Phi’ is the Thai word for ghost. I wonder what they made of ‘Q’.

  • BGBear_rnh

    Those window washers are a formidable bunch.

  • Flangepart

    He brings a cloth, you bring a squeegee. It’s the Chicago way.

  • Eric Hinkle

    It does sort-of look like the Garuda, who is usually a much more benevolent creature in Thai folklore.

  • Eric Hinkle

    This may be a bit OT but given that we’re mostly nerds, has anyone heard about how the Chinese government has confiscated and burned the entire print run of a Kickstarter game because they didn’t like their take on Chinese history?

    It’s either fun or repulsive to watch the gamers defending their action. The best one is the people saying that ‘Western rulers have done this, like Hitler and Pinochet’.

    When ‘It’s no worse than Hitler’ is your defense?

  • Ken_Begg

    Ha, yeah, that’s not great. And why would you support China anyway?! Weird. Hell, I’m sure other countries would love to take over China role’s as a manufacturer if China destroys themselves as that.

  • Gamera977

    Eric, do you remember the name of the game? This is something I’d love to read more about.

  • Eric Hinkle

    China’s been doing cheap printing for some time now. A lot of smaller tabletop RPG companies use them. Their politics are apparently more palatable to the people running these companies as well.

  • Eric Hinkle

    It was ‘The Sassoon Files’, set in 1920’s Shanghai, by the indie publisher Sons of Singularity.

  • Gamera977

    The Chinese government is kinda weird about so much stuff. For example as an Atheist state they won’t allow a lot of supernatural stuff in movies. But I’ve seen a recent ghost movie that did. The main plot was that the haunting was a ‘Scooby Doo’ type fake but there were things going on that really didn’t make really fit into the story that it was faked. I got the impression that it was saying that the haunting was real. Then again it might have been just bad writing.
    And ‘The Flowers of War’ (amazing great film) had a generally favorable attitude to Christianity even though the government has been trying to stomp out all religion in the county.

  • Eric Hinkle

    They are willing to allow state-controlled churches to exist. The RCC made a deal allowing them in the country as long as China gets to pick the bishops. I have to wonder who thought that was a good idea.