Last Friday’s Watch Party was the recently added Frogs, a film I saw when I was nine or ten in my hometown Pickwick Theatre. Back in the day’s when your Mom would give you a buck and let you walk the mile or so to the cinema to see a film all by yourself. No one was arrested.
I’m not the world’s biggest Ray Milland fan, and I frankly have always loved frogs and toads, so the constant ‘terrifying’ shots of frogs (mostly toads, actually) in the film never struck me overmuch as scary, even as a tot. Still, I apologize if my cynicism on this front diminished the enjoyment other people had during the watch party. On the whole, this is exactly the kind of film that if Hollywood would make now would actually get me back into theaters. No CGI, please, and you can keep the explosions and mass destruction to a minimum, please.
Also, really, that is a GREAT poster. Genuinely iconic.
If you weren’t there but have Prime, you could do worse than to watch it. Let the Amazon algorithm knows we want more of this sort of thing.
Anyway, thanks to everyone who stopped by.
