The penultimate movie was Midnight Madness, a one time cable mainstay that inspired the ‘treasure hunts’ my own group of friends ran waaaaay back in high school. Not a great film, but a nice cheerful one. For the last film we (quite nearly) returned to old tradition. Back in the day B-Fest always ended with a Godzilla movie. That has fallen by wayside as time passed, but this way they returned to that general idea by showing Gamera vs Guiron.
Our pal Liz had never seen a Gamera movie before and she literally spent about three straight minutes giggling with delight when the monsters made their appearance (including Space Gaos). It was delightful. The one downnote was that the print we saw was heavily edited with a lot of the monster fights cut down. (????) I don’t think we ever saw Guiron’s ninja stars, for example. Still, it was pretty great.
And so ended B-Fest 2020, a year that will go down as a pretty fun and nearly painless fest after years of ones that were often more bruising. Here’s to B-Fest 2021.
Oh, and T-Fest will be at Sandy’s house (per usual) on April 18th.
