Monster of the Day #3364

Updated on March 21, 2022 By Ken Begg 11 Comments

So Friday’s Watch Party, which was typically delightful, featured The Slime People. It’s a slog, written, directed and starring Robert Hutton, for the first hour, livened only when they hide out in a real butcher shop and we get to see what meat cost back in the day. Less than now, in case your wondering. The monster suits are great, there are three full ones (not bad, given the $56,000 budget), and the last 20 minutes–the film runs 76 minutes–picks up action-wise. Anyway, it was fun. We’ll do another one a week from Friday.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    Les Tremayne was clearly having a great time.

  • Gamera977

    There should have been a sequel where we found out the Slime People had captured Tolliver instead of killing him and took him back to their underground kingdom where he ended up their ruler.

    Because in the Land of the Slime the One Goat Man is King…

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    The way he is standing in front of the studio offices makes me think this was a scene cut from “Sunset Blvd.”

  • Sorry I missed it. I was travelling for Con and couldn’t make it work on my Kindle. OTOH I did get to see *Frankenstein Conquers the World* subbed on the big screen yesterday. Which was particularly lucky as they did an really crap job of putting up any schedules for the Movie room at all. In Fact I didn’t even know there was one. Just wandered by at the right time.

  • Ken_Begg

    That sounds like the Mole Man’s origin in Marvel Comics.*

    (Trivia Note: Mole Man was Marvel’s very first supervillain, appearing in Fantastic Four #1)

  • Ken_Begg

    G-Fest shows movies at the lovely Pickwick Theatre every year (that the convention runs). They haven’t announced the slate for this summer yet, but I’m highly excited.

  • Not a bad little Bad Movie. Much better than I was expecting.

  • Doctor Doom would disagree with you. Doctor Doom would point to the Accused Reed Richards, whose appearance precedes that of the petty Mole Man.

    To reassure, Doctor Doom hasn’t hijacked Cullen Waters’ account to post this, any more than he has crossed dimensions just to write this post to further the completely justified hatred of the Accused Reed Richards. The idea is absurdly petty.

    Though quite brilliant and clever. More so than the Accused Reed Richards ever could be.

  • thunderclancat

    Slime People is a fun little film, not very good, perhaps, but not as bad as say, Heartbeeps, or the oeuvre of Coleman Francis. It’s one of those movies that
    I would probably have watched on an off day from school.

  • Ken_Begg

    Dude, just pay Luke Cage his $200.

  • It is unfortunate this baseless canard still floats about the Multiverse. The truth is, despite a clearly unsatisfactory performance in service to Doom and the affront of home invasion and severe damage to a priceless piece of armor, Mr. Cage was indeed paid two hundred American dollars. This was for his determination, as well as for services rendered against the Faceless One. Such a pittance as two hundred American dollars is to Doom what the American vernacular calls “chump change”. Any confusion over the matter comes from an unfortunate glitch in the Doombot performing Doom’s duties at that time. A glitch no doubt caused by the actions of the Accursed Reed Richards.

    That Mr. Cage would return home to discover that he was missing exactly two hundred American dollars and a single cent from his personal savings is also a coincidence. To accuse Doom of such petty behavior is, of course, laughable. It is more in line with the actions of the Accused Reed Richards, who everyone knows often leaves restaurants without paying a tip.

    With this, Doom… that is, Cullen Waters and not Doom hijacking his account, hopes that the confusion has been cleared from the matter. Doctor Doom pays all his debts. Completely. As the Accursed Reed Richards and the rest of his infernal Fantastic Four will learn in the fullness of time.