Monster of the Day #3473

Updated on September 15, 2023 By Ken Begg 22 Comments

Here we see the Battle Aces, uh, fighting, I guess some….

OK, I have no friggin’ idea what’s happening here. Nightmare fuel, though. Yikes!

Wheeeee!  Happy Friday, everyone. Man, I’m loving the cooler weather. So happy. In any case, the weekend looms before us. Watch something stupid, everyone.

Watch Party next Friday.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    Sure seems like the Germans were the least of G-8’s worries.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    Never call your wife or mother in law a harpy.

  • Hawkman’s history was always convoluted, wasn’t it?

  • Eric Hinkle

    At least G-8 fought real monsters rather than some prop this time around. I have the issue. Well, I have a reprint. In it crippled German pilots are given a chance to fly again for the Kaiser by having their heads transplanted onto large raptors who are then somehow embiggened into giant birds o’ terror. A very fun and weird story. Reads kind of like some of the crazier Golden Age superhero comics.

  • Gamera977

    Ah, I was wondering why a harpy would need a helmet and googles. Guess that explains it- thanks!!!

  • Gamera977

    As big as a battleship!!!

    Sorry, it needed to be said….

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I watched a very nice print of “The Lost Boys” from which, honestly, I thought there’d be something more. I mean, it’s one of those 80’s films that defined “the 80’s” and I just thought it was kind of stupid. Like most of Joel Schumaker’s films, I guess.

    You always want something more from those “defining” films, and for the most part you get that from decades past, as a student of cinema history. Then you reach your own era and it’s like, “Wait, this was influential? Really?”

  • Eric Hinkle

    To everyone who has TCM, this Monday they’ll be showing six Big Bug movies, with the list being headed off by the classic Them!, followed by Tarantula and Black Scorpion.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Sounds like something Fletcher Hanks would have written.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    It was big here in Santa Cruz, CA where it was filmed. I even assisted the productions turning lights on and off at the Boardwalk amusement park. They even fed us. My wife (before we married) got to sit at table with Kiefer.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Just asking, is it something you’d do again?

  • Eric Hinkle

    Well, it’s not quite as insane as a Fletcher Hanks story. But it comes close.

  • That was one I was obsessed with for about a year as a teen (Jason Patric? Kiefer Sutherland? Duh), then when it wasn’t cool to like it, I decided it was overrated. I watched it again after 20 years or so when my own kids were teens and looking for fairly benign horror stuff to watch with them and decided that it had in fact held up surprisingly well. It’s a favorite for the occasional rewatch at Halloween. My 82 year old dad likes it, which is weird only in the fact that he usually doesn’t like horror movies from any later than the 50s. OTOH he is the person who raised me as a Monster Kid, so…

    It’s probably the least Schumaker-y of Schumaker’s movies, minus the whole Rob Lowe pinup bit.

    I don’t know so much about ‘defining’, especially when you realize that it was part of the last gasp of Vampire movies where vampires are still irredeemably evil instead of romantic and sparkly, Near Dark was another that same year. I blame Dan Curtis and Ann Rice for kicking off that bullfeces well before Stephanie Meyer. It was however very popular, even in the mainstream, and is generally kindly remembered by Gen Xers.

  • Speaking of stupid, showed The Lost Empire to Hunter today. Damn, that movie is goofy as hell, and despite all the boobies it’s much lest sleazy feeling than most of Wynorski’s work. I have a great affection for it and for Chopping Mall, which is weirdly nudity free.

  • That’s pretty cool.

  • In Dan Curtis’s defense, he also did the very influential Night Stalker, as well as the not-so-much Bram Stoker’s Dracula. How this compares with Dark Shadows I don’t know; I’ve only seen the movie and can’t force myself through the series.

    More on topic, it’s been a million years or so since I’ve Lost Boys, and much has been forgotten in that time. However, I still remember and love the end.

  • I am being such a That Guy tonight, but Chopping Mall has nudity. Not as much as you’d might expect from Wynorski, but it is there.

  • Maybe I saw an edited version. I only saw it in the last year or so and it was part of a streaming Corman marathon (I don’t remember which service), so possible it was cut.

  • Both Curtis’s Dracula and Dark Shadows leaned hard into the ‘reincarnated love interest’ bit that has plagued Dracula movies ever since. Both the Langella version and Coppola’s leaned hard into that as well as into the tragic villain trope that was a big part of both Lestat and Barnabas Collins (especially early on, he gets a bit more proactive towards trying to actually earn redemption as the series goes on. Not that he ever gets it for long, as in the soap world it’s status quo uber alles).

    I remember being really disappointed the first time I saw the Curtis Dracula, just because for many years it had this great reputation as one of the most accurate and serious versions of the story. All I can guess is that it hadn’t been available for so long at that point that it was being remembered far too nostalgically, as it really isn’t worth much except as a curiosity piece, to see what Palance did with the character (Yikes!)

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    I do not think I would ever work at amusement park again. Hanging around with a group of co-workers waiting for hours to turn a ride on or off or lights on or off was a good memory. Kind of for the young folk.

  • I really rather liked it when I saw it not to long ago. That said, my liking something isn’t a sign of quality…

  • Ken_Begg

    So…it’s Latitude Zero.