Off on vacation for a bit…

Updated on October 6, 2019 By Ken Begg 31 Comments

I’m heading down to Kentucky to visit with family, so everyone have a good week-ish. I’ll be back on Thursday (although hopefully I’ll be sleeping in that first morning.)

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  • Gamera977

    Hope you have a safe trip Ken and see you when you get back.

  • Gamera977

    BTW saw ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ last week. Very intense movie. Don’t think I’d buy it on Blu-Ray or see it a second time but it was worth seeing once. Not to blow any plot elements but here Rambo has finally settled down and has a decent life when a Mexican gang takes the only thing he cares about away from him. So you get a pissed off old man opening a 55 gallon drum of whoop-ass on a bunch of scumbags.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Travel safely and have fun, Ken!

  • thunderclancat

    Be safe and have fun!

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Have a trip, and safe fun, with travel!

  • So how much trouble can we cause around here while he’s gone?

  • Gamera977

    I don’t think Ken will mind if we carry on a conversation here on this thread while he’s gone.

    So anyone doing anything for Halloween? I pulled out my horror DVDs and watched ‘The Wolf Man’, ‘The She-Wolf of London’, ‘Dog Soldiers’, and ‘Ginger Snaps.’ Going to watch ‘The Howling’, ‘An American Werewolf in London’, and maybe the Hammer version of ‘The Wolf Man’ later this week. Hopefully my copy of ‘Hard Ticket to Hawaii’ comes this week and I’ll get to break up the lycanthropes before I end up howling at the moon!

  • I’ll be in Las Vegas…..

  • We’re celebrating our Silver Wedding Anniversary with our usual Crap Movie/Halloween party, AKA Hallowversary. No idea what this year’s theme is, yet. I need to get cracking!

    I’ve been catching up on a lot of B Horror the last few weeks, but that really isn’t any different than usual. It’s more that I’ve been getting things off my “really need to watch that sometime list”. Recently:

    -Dracula Vs. Frankenstein
    -Invasion of the B-Girls
    -The Wonderful Land of Oz (definitely horror)
    -Motel Hell
    -The Alpha Incident (this scared the shit out of me as a kid, but I only turned it on just in time to see the head ‘asplode bit followed by the suicide, turns out that was the only part worth watching in this dull slog ripoff of The Andromeda Strain, I expected better from Bill Rebane)
    -Sisters of Death
    -Satanic Rites of Dracula (the only one is the series I’d missed and it could have stayed missed)

    Not the only things I’ve been watching, but that’s pretty much all the new-to-me stuff.

    Incidentally, a couple of those I saw specifically because a particular Jabootite Minion has been hosting live Watch Parties every Friday (9 EST/8 CST) on Facebook. If you like “The Creeping Cruds” page on Facebook you can get access. Just an excuse to hang out and type snark to one another while the movies play.

  • The elder boychild insisted we watch “The Banana Splits” movie. My honest
    assessment is that it is about 2/3 of a pretty decent gore flick.

    The deaths are suitably disgusting and the setpieces sufficiently outré to satisfy H.G. Lewis’s wildest dreams. But the whole thing is saddled with the full cliché “family under stress at home must come together to overcome danger” plot and in the end the whole thing is wrapped up far to easily to meet the time restraints of eventual TV release as it was made by SyFy.

    The creaters obviously wanted to save as much time as possible for showing off their (surprisingly very well- done) practical gore effects. But sacrificed both good setup or satisfactory resolution of the central mystery.

    Probably worth a paying watch if it turns up for free somewhere for the excellent practical effects (something to be missed in these days of inertialess and unconvincing CGI), but neither good enough to seek out for its own sake not bad enough to qualify as guilty
    pleasure.

  • Gamera977

    Interesting, the only ones I think I’ve seen are ‘Invasion of the B-Girls’, ‘Motel Hell’, and ‘The Alpha Incident’. Guess I need to catch up on the others, not sure about the ‘The Banana Splits’ movie though. I never saw the original series and I just don’t like slasher movies. As you said if I can catch it for free I might do that though.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Well, I watched the four Universal ‘Kharis’ movies. They were far from the best Universal horror films, but it’s always good to see how with those four Universal still took some risks and used some original ideas.

    And I’ll never get tired of seeing the first films real villain, Andoheb, get blown away by the comic relief character. Heck Babe Jensen does more to beat the villains in that film than the hero does!.

  • Eric Hinkle

    It’s a bit early, but Happy Anniversary to you and your husband. May there be many more to come, both anniversaries and B-movies!

  • Eric Hinkle

    I watched it as a Redbox rental. Good that you liked it but to me, ugh.

  • Gamera977

    Oh and my copy of ‘Guns, Girls, and G-Strings’ came yesterday and I watched ‘Hard Ticket to Hawaii’ last night. It was like the most insane warped version of Magnum P.I. ever. Stupid silly fun and the snake was just wow! I just wish it had been in the film more, the scene where it destroys the toilet complete with fireworks is magnificent! Guess that marks me as a geek, I was thinking: ‘come on guys, less boobs more snake!!!’

  • “Like” is a strong term. “Didn’t hate all of” is closer. I did enjoy the effects for their own sake, but that is just because I am sick to death of unconvincing CGI everything.

  • Thanks much! I suppose he’s a keeper at this point.

    Admittedly, the reason I figured I’d better marry this one is because I dragged him out of bed at 0200 hours to make him watch “Plan Nine From Outer Space” and he not only didn’t kill me, he actually enjoyed the experience.

  • Ken subjected me to that one during a B-Fest visit and it is a pretty fun little flick, for what it is.

  • Yeah, I’d say it is definitely a freebie-only watch. Boychild paid for it himself because I’d have never shelled out the money.

  • Eric Hinkle

    That’s how you know it’s destiny.

  • Eric Hinkle

    If anyone here has seen the ‘Superman as Horror’ movie Brightburn, can you give it a recommend, or is it best avoided? I am intrigued at the thought of superhero horror.

  • It’s something, at any rate.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    The one thing I really remember is when they used a rocket launcher to kill some guy.

  • Gamera977

    Yeah, there’s a scene where the main character’s boyfriend shoots a guy on a skateboard holding a blow-up doll and a sub-machine gun with a rocket launcher. As said it’s a batguano insane moment.

  • thunderclancat

    Happy Anniversary !

  • Thank you! The secret is that, every day, you have to make up your mind that your other half gets to live. *Tomorrow*, homicide may be an option, but for today you can’t kill ’em. String enough “not killing him” days together you get 25 years, 2 great kids, and a reasonably successful marriage.

  • Nate Winchester

    No kidding? Where abouts in KY? I’m in Louisville myself.

  • Ken_Begg

    I have family in Hopkinsville.

  • Gamera977

    Oh gosh, first thing that came to mind was the alleged alien encounter in Hopkinsville in 1955!

  • Nate Winchester

    No kidding! A lot of my family is from Bowling Green. Someday I’ll have to buy the high priest a drink of his choice when he’s around.

  • Whitecliff 33

    Ken, any chance you can please make available your original review of The Swarm, before you edited it? Sorry to ask but that was one of the funniest things I have ever read!