Monster of the Day #3480

Updated on March 18, 2024 By Ken Begg 17 Comments

Boy, you’d think I’d like this more. I’m certainly not adverse to a giant skeleton, I don’t think. Although that’s not really the appeal of skeletons. I think it’s too busy, maybe? It’s a Ghost Lighthouse, and also has giant skeleton arms? Hmm, don’t know.

Happy Monday, folks!

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  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    Gary Hart and Monkey Business what really happened.

  • Rock Baker

    Ken, is that box still a possibility?

  • Eric Hinkle

    A little OT but it’s kind of Jabootu-worthy – has anyone else here heard about
    the Star Wars burlesque show running right now in Philadelphia? They’re calling it ‘The Empire Strips Back’. They even have their own website. Go and search for it if you don’t believe me.

    The site also sells a magazine for Wookiees of, ahem, mature tastes. So if you can remember that one scene from the infamous Holiday Special involving Chewie’s grand-dad, yeah. They made a whole (fake) magazine about that. To promote a burlesque show.

    I’m just wondering how they’re doing this without getting sued blind by Disney.

  • Gamera977

    I don’t know if it’s bad or good that most of us are old enough to get that joke.

  • Gamera977

    Well for my stupid movie this weekend I watched ‘Killer Shark’. China takes up the gauntlet that yes we too can make a stupid brainless ‘Jaws’ rip-off just as bad as Hollywood and Italy. It’s funny that the movie has a decent premise, six young people on a capsized yacht end up adrift on the open ocean hunted by a Megadon sized cartoon, ahem I mean really really really bad CGI shark. But we get a pile of shots of the shark just swimming around, jumping into the air, lunging at nothing, reaction shot of the cast looking scared and then more shots of the shark swimming around and lunging.

    It’s like a film with about five to ten spring-loaded cats in a row before someone gets attacked. There’s a point in building tension but you can only push the fake scares so far before the audience begins to lose interest and go to sleep.

    After that I watched ‘The Fifth Floor’ or something like that. A bit of ’70s sleaze about a young woman forced into a mental health ward and menaced by a rapey Bo Hopkins. Only good thing about the movie is Robert Englund’s spastic dancing. ‘Killer Shark’ is decent if you’re bored, not sure I’d recommend this one unless you’re really in the mood for sleaze.

  • Ken_Begg

    Beats the alternative, I guess.

  • Ken_Begg

    I assume it falls under parody laws, like the way they can make superhero porn films with accurate costumes (more accurate than the movies, actually) and using the actual superhero names, etc. I don’t quite get it, myself, but clearly it’s a real thing.

  • The Rev.

    A friend of mine lives in the Philly area and they told me about it. I don’t think they’re going to it, although they said they would have if I lived closer and went with them. And I probably would have just for the spectacle. I didn’t know about the magazine though, that’s dedication.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Okay but I don’t recall superhero porn films getting the widespread publicity this show is getting. I’m on FB and we’re getting spammed repeatedly with this ads for show.

  • The Rev.

    My stupid this past weekend was in a similar vein, as I finally saw Up From the Depths. Although not so much “stupid” as “interminably dull.” I hope everyone enjoyed their trip to the Philippines. Susanne Reed was VERY pretty, if nothing else. As usual, I would’ve much rather seen lots of the goofy-looking monster props than the bare glimpses we get here. The fact that the attack scenes are all “film actor thrashing in water while shaking camera and pouring red paint into said water” did not help any. I’m kind of curious if the makers of The Last Shark saw this movie considering the ending? That was made two years later, so it’s possible.

  • Gamera977

    ’47 Meters Down’ is pretty darn good. Other than that and ‘Jaws’ I’m having a hard time coming up with any other good killer shark films.

  • Jaws 3.

    Well, maybe vastly entertaining is a better word.

  • The Rev.

    I did enjoy 47 Meters Down although…I guess possible minor spoiler…so be warned…but there was a plot point I figured out early enough that gave the game away.

    Good killer shark films…uh…yeah…I’ve seen some entertaining crap ones but I am blanking on anything else that was good. Although I haven’t seen Open Water or that more recent one with the woman on the buoy so I don’t know how those stack up.

  • Ken_Begg

    Hey, if it’s legal it’s legal.

  • Ken_Begg

    Jaws 3 or Jaws 4?

  • Jaws 3. Nothing against 4, but I find 3 to be really fun. I prefer it over all the other Jaws movies (though it really isn’t as good as the first two.)

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I kind of liked “Deep Blue Sea.” Parts of it I thought were quite good. That Jason Statham movie (The Meg?) had its moments. Although it was basically a compilation of all the shark movie cliches.