Monster of the Day #3289

Updated on October 14, 2022 By Ken Begg 8 Comments

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Happy Friday, everyone! Watch something stupid this weekend. And something spooky.

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  • Gamera977

    Wow, we’re now to the point of bats drawn by people who have never seen a bat.

    I think… it looks almost more like a twisted cross between Brown Jenkin and the Giant Claw.

  • Gamera977

    Sorry to say but I’m a little behind on stupid movies. I thought ‘CHUD’ would fill in that hole but it’s not really stupid, I mean it’s not ‘Citizen Kane’ or anything but not that bad. Though now I want ‘Citizen CHUD’ with Kane’s last word… ‘RoseCHUD….’

    I worked Sat. and watched the Indonesian movie ‘The Real Pocong’ on YouTube as posted by Baya Pratama. I figured it was going to be bizarre and insane like a lot of Thai movies but it was surprisingly good. Only real problem I had was it was super predicable- I mean for crying out loud you want to shake a character sometimes- ‘that person is the friggin’ ghost’! But the pocong, the Indonesian shrouded ghost is creepy as hell and it leaving a trail of it’s grave dirt behind it is unique. I don’t think it’s in the original legend but it’s super spooky so I’m not complaining.

    I finally ended up watching ’13 Ghosts’ which may fulfill the my stupid quota. It did have a silly William Castle gimmick which was kinda dumb anyway.

  • zombiewhacker

    I’ve been watching horror movies almost every night during the month of Halloween, a lot of them great old Hammer sci fi films that I’d either never seen before or just only once (Abominable Snowman, Enemy From Space, X the Unknown).

    An idea popped into my head during my mini marathon while watching the MST3K riff on Bert I. Gordon’s moldy oldie Earth vs. the Spider— how about a week of MOTD’s devoted to pics of monster movie victims? True, a victim doesn’t technically count as a monster, but sometimes victims in old horror movies proved to be spookier and more imaginative than many monsters are in horror movies today. Take Earth vs. the Spider for instance. Gordon needed a scene where the heroes discovered a victim’s desiccated remains, so Paul Blaisdell himself was tapped to create the goofy yet memorable prop used in closeup.

    There are probably other examples out there that you could probably think of, mostly I’d bet from around the same era.

  • Gamera977

    That’s an interesting idea, have to see what Ken thinks of it of course but I like having some victims for a change.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    I watched “I eat your skin” earlier this week. Can’t get much stupider than that or short in the titular cannibalism.

  • Watched C.H.U.D since I missed last week’s party, but like Gammy says, it isn’t really stupid. Going to sit down for my annual viewing of Halloween some time this weekend, which is just a damn fine film. I did however just get a nice grey-market print of “Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park” so that will likely fill my stupid quotient for the weekend. They included the later European “Attack of the Phantoms” version, which is more coherent and actually features KISS music instead of random Hanna Barbera stock music, but frankly is the less charmingly incompetent for it and I prefer the US TV version for entertainment value. Boy Anthony Zerbe needed a paycheck that week. Brion James too, but frankly he’d do anything with a paycheck in it.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I watched “Samurai Cop.” It definitely fulfilled the “stupid” quote. I wonder why Robert Z’Dar had a beard in that one. I mean, doesn’t “having a beard” kind of negate the point of “having Robert Z’Dar in a movie”?

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I also re-watched “Spring” from the film-making duo of Moorehead and Benson. It’s an absolutely beautiful film about, what happens if you fall in love with a monster? And when you learn she’s a monster, what do you do next? I highly recommend this film. All of their films are well worth seeing, but this is probably the only one where the main characters aren’t unlikeable jerks.