Monster of the Day #3348

Updated on February 7, 2022 By Ken Begg 24 Comments

So for the Watch Party we watched–if not understood–a ’70s ‘arty’ campy (I think) horror movie (kinda) called Alabama’s Ghost.

Here’s the discussion that ensued afterward:

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  • If only I hadn’t missed the opening few minutes (seconds?), surely I would have understood things better.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I think my cat said it best when he sat on the keyboard: “mmmmmmm///////////”

  • kgb_san_diego

    Uh, no. No you would not have

  • The Rev.

    I can’t believe I spaced this and showed up so late.

    The funny thing is, I saw only the last 20 or 30 minutes and I think my grasp of it is as good as anyone who watched the whole thing.

  • Gamera977

    Umm, I’m not sure even Nyarlathotep would understand this…

  • Gamera977

    I’ve watched ‘Monster A-Go-Go’ multiple times and it sorta kinda makes a little sense if you tilt your head a certain way.

    This one I got nuttin’…

  • bgbear_rnh

    I was watching on my phone and listening while I was driving, saw maybe last 30 minutes at home. Wife also saw and heard last same 1/2 hour. Her confusion equaled mine and sounds like everyone else here.

  • bgbear_rnh

    When I was a little kid I met Henry Hite personally. I wish I was a little older and had seen Monster A Go Go so I could have asked him what was going on. I am hoping he had formulated an answer but more likely would have shrugged.

  • Psychotronic Reviews has an incredibly pretentious review of it, if you want to see someone tie themselves up in knots over Fredric Hobbs’s status as an auteur.

  • Watching every minute of it is no help at all, believe me.

  • bgbear_rnh

    Rocky the barber’s review? Oh. my.

  • Chad R.

    I transcribed the entire opening monologue from Alabama’s Ghost.

    While storm clouds gathered over Europe in the years before the war, Hitler’s most brilliant and renowned young scientist Dr. Kirsten Caligula vanished suddenly from her laboratory in Berlin. World press received unconfirmed reports that Dr. Caligula, an expert in robot technology, had been dispatched to Calcutta, India on a top-secret mission for the Fuhrer himself. Her orders? To interview the world-famed magician and spiritualist Carter the Great
    at his mountain retreat near Calcutta, there to study his most recent discovery, a rare super-substance known as Raw Zeta. It was rumored among scientists of the time that Carter’s substance resembled a highly potent form of hashish known as Cartoon Khaki. Other authoritative sources in the Far East reported that Raw Zeta, when refined electronically and introduced into a human body by Chinese acupuncture techniques, could result in
    the formation of Deadly Zeta. In his last public statement Carter warned that any mortal wired to Deadly Zeta could
    be used as a broadcasting catalyst to enslave all humans within the sound of his voice thus becoming an unwitting tool for the most diabolical forces of evil known to man. Soon afterwards Carter vanished forever while visiting his sister in San Francisco, perhaps a victim of his own prophecy. Seven years later when Carter was pronounced legally dead, his admirers held a funeral over an empty black coffin.

    I hope that clears everything up.

  • Ken_Begg

    And I’d like to point out, that’s reading it in text. Imagine just listening to a narrator spieling all that for like, I don’t know, an hour. Anyway, we open with that, then we get like an hour of basically unconnected and time-wasting material (magic acts, song acts, dancing acts, etc.), and then all that robot vampire stuff suddenly, and confusedly, comes into play for about the last 20 minutes.

  • I know you can’t really tell from the audio (and definitely not from the tose abysmal subtitles) but I suspect that is actually supposed to be “Khartoum Khaki” which is much more alliterative, if nothing else.

  • Chad R.

    That makes vastly more sense than Cartoon Khaki. One single thing about Alabama’s Ghost is now comprehensible.

    Also I’m sure those subtitles were automatically generated by an AI, hence the proliferation of confusing near-homophones.

  • Gamera977

    I’m sure they are. I had the subtitles on with some Amazon shark movie and they kept subtitling shark as shirt.

    Somehow a killer shirt seems like threatening…

  • Eric Hinkle

    Someone once made a movie about a killer bed, so why not a killer shirt? See, it once was worn by a mad killer who failed to get his last victim because the police shot him down. The shirt is then given to a local thrift store, someone buys it, but when they put it on they become obsessed with the dead murderer’s need to kill.

  • Ken_Begg

    Well, there was a TV movie about a cape that possessed the wearer and made her a killer. What was that called again?

  • Beckoning Chasm

    “Cape Fear”

  • Eric Hinkle

    Didn’t Amicus do something similar in their anthology film ‘The House That Dripped Blood’, with a vampire’s cape?

  • Ken_Begg

    Yes, with Jon Pertwee and Ingrid Pitt! It’s great.

  • Gamera977

    And wasn’t one of the episodes of ‘Thriller’ about a possessed wig that made the woman irresistible but drove her to kill all her admirers?

    And I think I watched some Asian film about a pair of red high heels that turned the woman who wore them into a serial killer. Wish I could remember the name.

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    Now those two films sound different.