Yeti was our first and last monster movie on Sunday. The rest of the day we watched Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (Tod Slaughter’s last film and a bit of a departure–it wasn’t adapted from a stage play and he assayed a hooded supervillain type), which was quite fun. Then it was These Final Hours, a dour Australian movie about Ozzies waiting for a extinction-level event to sweep across their continent. It was a good character piece, I thought, but mileage varied.
Then we watched Cade: The Tortured Crossing, which is Neil Breen’s last movie. I concur with Chad R, who felt it was a way overlong movie that Breen shot a lot of footage for but really had no idea where it was supposed to go. It was certainly inept, but not nearly as fun as his earlier work. Finally, to end the day I showed Millionaire’s Express, a sort of Hong Kong version of a comic spaghetti western starring Sammo Hung, who has a great fight with a young Cynthia Rothrock during the absolutely bonkers climax. The movie, which I bought recently but hadn’t watched, proved to be wildly entertaining. Several other attendees immediately jumped on the Web and bought their own copies.
On to Monday, when we watched a lot more stuff, but breaking, obviously, to watch the total eclipse. It was also GalaxyJane’s birthday, which she choose to celebrate with us. (??) I thought it would be funny to watch Bloody Birthday, which centers on (obviously) a birthday and a total eclipse. However, Sandy and Wendy had a metric ton of little grandkids running around the house, so R rated fare was off the table. Oh, well.
Sandy showed a fun sleazy Ron Ormond movie about a frigid wife called Please Don’t Touch Me. (The kids were outside at this point.) It reminded me of my dating days.* Then we watched a couple of episodes of The Untouchables, and then one of Combat! Finally, Sandy showed Mike, who had never seen it, Monster on the Campus. From there for the rest of the day it was all horror and monsters.
(*This is an exaggeration, since I never really did much dating.)
