Monster of the Day #3328

Updated on January 23, 2023 By Ken Begg 13 Comments

Happy (???) Monday, everyone!

This would have been a great Halloween MotD, but hey, I just found it. Unless I’ve used it before, which is entirely possible. Still, neat.

Friday’s Watch Party was Richard Burton’s Doctor Faustus, and…well, you spend your dime and you take your chances. Still, I was glad to tick it off my list.

Have a terrific day, everyone.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    Looks like Hannes Bok’s work there.

  • One of the good things about the watch party is that I see a whole lot of films I’d have passed over due to it not being my Genre of Choice. The real pity here is that this might have been a better movie if in better hands. As it was, it was too arty-farty, too confusing, and just generally dull. Though on the plus side it’s always good to see Ian Marter, as short a role(s) as he had in it. I meant to shout “HARRY SULLIVAN’S AN IDIOT!” and forgot.

    As been said, too, the Marlowe/Shakespeare debate has been settled. Marlowe ain’t a patch upon the Bard.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Just curious here, but what year did this cover come from?

  • May, 1947.

  • zombiewhacker

    RE: Watch party

    I believe the Peter Cushing pic Shock Waves was recently added to Prime.

  • Ken_Begg

    That’s a pretty decent flick, although it’s annoying that Carradine and Cushing don’t have a scene together.

    It’s also the movie where Cushing was denied having some pancakes. Horrible story.

  • I hate the Cushing pancakes story with a passion. Give the man some pancakes, damn it.

  • Gamera977

    Yeah, he’s a friggin’ legend, get him his buckwheat pancakes!

    And get Carradine about five plates of them, he was just skin and bones.

  • Gamera977

    Yeah, even Joel Hodgson said you can’t do ’60s monster movies all the time. I like a little variety. It was fine by me!

    And thanks for the reminder Cullen, the name Ian Marter sounded familiar but I’d forgotten who he’d played.

  • Eric Hinkle

    So relatively late in the initial run of Weird Tales. Thanks.

  • Ken_Begg

    I mean, I get it, you have the guy hired for one or two days, but yeah…get that guy his pancakes. He’s Peter Cushing!!! (Plus he was still grieving his wife.)

  • It wasn’t even like he was asking for all the green M&Ms to be taken out of the bowl. Just pancakes.

  • Ken_Begg

    I mean, again, you write to many scenes for Cushing, you have him for (say) exactly two days before his return flight, he’s the biggest investment in your movie…I get that they didn’t think they had time to stop at IHOP. But damn, send an intern or gofer to go to IHOP and bring him some pancakes. Or get a box of pancake mix and have the caterer or just anyone on the set make him some pancakes. Dude, *I* can make pancakes. It’s a grilled cheese level of cooking.