Monster of the Day #3136

Updated on December 29, 2020 By Ken Begg 27 Comments

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I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. And hey, there’s another one coming right up. Having the holidays on a Friday is always a plus.

Did anyone get anything good? The adults in my family don’t exchange much any more (although my sister got me a nice pair of slippers and a heated blanket, which is pretty useful in these parts). On the other hand, I’ve been buying myself WAY too much later, so more stuff isn’t necessary. I’ve gotten plenty of stuff lately, thank you. How about you guys, though?

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    Got myself a FireStick, and re-joined Prime. And watched the 2015 “Krampus.”

  • Blake Matthews

    I got a manga adaptation of three Lovecraft stories; a Scholastic books novelization of the 1998 Godzilla; and a handful of DVDs (some of which hailed from a failing video store*):

    – Prometheus
    – Alien: Covenant
    – No Retreat, No Surrender
    – Knock-Off
    – Holy Flame of the Martial World
    ——-
    – The Grand Master
    – The Banquet (2006)
    – Operation Pink Squad
    – The Raid: Redemption
    – The Undisputed III
    – Boyka: The Undisputed
    – Master of the Flying Guillotine

  • Gamera977

    Not much, a shirt, cell phone/mobile stand, and a LED reading light. Didn’t buy much for myself since I wasted a pile of money on upgrading my PC back in the fall as a birthday gift for myself.

    I did buy Okami HD for my PC but haven’t played it yet, I’ve been working at trying to get Cyberpunk 2077 to run. Which to CD Project Red’s credit they’ve been patching it constantly. I wouldn’t say don’t buy it but you might want to wait a month or so till it’s patched and solidly runnable.

  • I got Blu-rays! Quatermass and the Pit, The Brides of Dracula, and The Howling! I also got one of those cheap-o sci-fi collections with The Monolith Monsters and The Mole People, among others. I’m stoked!

    Happy New Year, everyone!

  • Rock Baker

    I was given a box of video tapes that once belonged to a collector who had a good eye. Got to fill some gaps in my library, and finally got to see PROJECT MOONBASE and MOONTRAP! Couple volumes of Captain Midnight in the box, too, which sort of made up for the local station no longer running Sky King.

  • Ken_Begg

    I got the Roku, let me know how the FireStick is. Prime is great, I use about 1/10th of all the services it provides.

  • Ken_Begg

    Sweet. I couldn’t even list all the DVDs I got last month, from Amazon, Sentai Filmworks (anime distributor), Severin Films, Kino, etc. Too much stuff. I had to order another shelving unit to put some of that stuff on.

  • Ken_Begg

    Yeah, from what I’ve seen on YouTube CD Project Red has really screwed the pooch on that release.

  • Ken_Begg

    Sweet! There’s the making of a great New Year’s watch party right there.

  • I got a copy of I Cannot Yet I Must which I asked Mr. GJ for, watched him order, my mother accidentally told me about when it arrived at her house and which I nevertheless managed to completely forget about in a week and therefor came as a complete surprise.

    I am going to pretend that I didn’t tear through 600+ pages of detailed information on a movie that only its mother could love like it was a cheap bodice-ripper from the drugstore.

    I also got a complete Rocky and Bullwinkle box set from the boys and a Wonder Woman Snuggie from Santa Claus.

    We actually ended up having a huge family Christmas at Undisclosed Mountain Location with all the sibs and our kids as 9 out of 10 of us have had the ‘Rona already at various points in the last 6 months and thus the safest crowd in the US. Ate and drank far too much and had fun baking in the leadup. It was, oddly, given 2020 as a whole, one of the nicest Christmases we’ve ever had.

  • I finally watched that this year after finding it in a bargain bin and was very favorably impressed.

  • Oh, and Santa also delivered glow-in-the-dark Svengoolie shirts for the 4 of us.

    Nerds? What nerds?

  • I got video games. Lots of video games.

    My mom, who swore never to buy her children videogames again, gave me a hundred dollar steam card. I think she’s trying to break me of my Minecraft habit. Which isn’t a habit. I only play it 16 hours a day and forget to eat (in meat space). That’s all. It’s not an all consuming passion that sucks up what remains of my life. No. Of course not.

    I can quit at any time, Mother.

    My baby brother bought me two video games off my (obnoxiously long) Steam wish list, one dealing with keeping a space colony alive (Oxygen Not Included), another about escaping Hades (called, strangely enough, Hades). Both are excellent from what little I’ve played, but the characters aren’t block shaped, which is very odd.

    My middle brother, however, went a different route topped all that with a blu ray of Horror Express. This is the best Christopher Lee/Peter Cushing outing that doesn’t involve Frankenstein or Dracula. Well that might be an exaggeration, but not by much. Love this flick to death.

    Special props goes to my employer, who was most understanding of me during this trying time of year. And yes, I do have to agree that screaming “I CAN’T CUT MEAT RIGHT NOW THERE’S A CREEPER ON MY BUTT!” wasn’t good customer service. Though the customer really should have known better.

  • Screwed the pooch might be too polite a way of putting it. I half want to buy the game to watch the carnage first hand.

    I own Early Access games that run about 100% smoother than that thing. It’s really a shame.

  • Ken_Begg

    Krampus? Yes, it’s pretty good. And despite making money, they haven’t done a sequel yet!

  • Ken_Begg

    So you bought the actual book. Good on ya! I was too cheap (and I’m finally getting used to reading things on my Kindle). On the other hand, I felt a lot better laying out $10 for the Ebook after I read it. I think GJ will agree, the sheer amount of work that guy put in on this book really needs to be rewarded. I hope he sold a nice number of copies for Christmas.

    Also, feel free to bring your WW Snuggie to DYI Fest.

  • Ken_Begg

    No, you’re right, Horror Express is fantastic.

  • Gamera977

    Oh yeah, a vote here for ‘Horror Express’ too! Lee and Cushing are as usual fantastic plus I loved Telly Savalas as the Cossack.

    And such great lines!

    Inspector Mirov: [sarcastic] ‘Oh, good idea. Two of you together – that’s fine. But what if one of you is the monster?’

    Dr. Wells: ‘Monster? We’re British, you know!’

    And:

    Captain Kazan: ‘He knows that a horse has four legs. He knows that a murderer has two arms. But still, the devil must be afraid of one honest Cossack.’

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Especially the blu-ray. All other prints before that look like someone ran over a Super-8 print with a truck and then threw it in the river.

  • The Rev.

    I saw it two years ago at an Alamo Drafthouse and was quite delighted with it. Especially compared to the other Krampus movies I’ve seen.

  • I’ve already been plotting how to get it in my luggage, even if I have to wear it onto the plane.

    Yep, I actually thought the price for the POD (my copy was literally printed the second week of December to be in my hand Christmas Day) was more than reasonable, given the sheer bulk, although it would have been nice to have had a hardback at the price point. But since I prefer the Paperwhite for reading rather than the backlit Fire, anything with lots of photos I prefer in dead tree format. And it is full of great photos. The exhaustive research that went into that and the sheer joy the author seems to have gotten out of the work, really pays off.

  • Agreed that the Blu-Ray is gorgeous!. Bought it the second it came out. We even showed it as one of our backyard walk in movies over the summer.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I’ve got the Roku Ultra and the 4K Firestick. One option in the Roku’s favor is an actual ethernet port–the FireStick connects to wireless only (you can get an adapter, but apparently it’s 10/100 only instead of gig-speed). I haven’t watched anything on the Roku yet (their channel store is pretty sparse with specifics). On the Firestick, I watched a documentary about sea creatures, then a horror movie about sea creatures (The Rift, a/k/a Endless Descent). Guess I had a one-track mind that evening. The playback was pretty solid, despite the wireless. Since then, both have lain pretty fallow as I’ve been working on a project..

  • Eric Hinkle

    How is that manga adaptation of Lovecraft? I haven’t see the three stories one yet, but I have read the two-volume adaptation of ‘At The Mountains Of Madness’. The art got a little confusing now and then, but the writing was very well handled.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Mostly I got gift cards (learned a long time ago that my family really doesn’t want to get the sort of books and movies I like), but there was a Criterion edition of the 1953 ‘War of the Worlds’ in there too.

    Also, a friend of mine ordered me a copy of Richard Tierney’s Simon of Gitta heroic fantasy collection ‘Sorcery Against Caesar’. The last time those stories were published together was back in the 90’s, so it is vastly appreciated.

  • Ken_Begg

    It’s the shocked (Cushing) and affronted (Lee) look that Lee and Cushing exchange before that line that sells it. That might be my favorite line in any movie ever.

  • Marsden

    My wife bought me the new AC/DC cd Power Up. I listened to it about 4 times so far. Unfortunately, we were all sick before Christmas so we didn’t get too much shopping done.