Monster of the Day #3536

Updated on June 25, 2024 By Ken Begg 18 Comments

I’d like to point out that this is not only a poster for an AIP film, and a Roger Corman film, but the cheapest AIP / Roger Corman film either entity ever made. The fact that AIP was counting on a hipster crowd for this film is pretty amazing. Although certainly the film warrants it.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    OT, but I was in Wal Mart last night and I stopped by their dwindling DVD area. They had The Vincent Price collection on blu-ray, at $40 (about $7 per film). Three Poes, Haunted Palace, the first Phibes and Witchfinder General. I use the word "had" for the obvious reason.

  • Cheaper than The Terror?

  • Gamera977

    A good example of 'lightning in a bottle', like 'Bucket of Blood' somehow everything comes together here in a pretty darn perfect black comedy.

    I STILL haven't seen the musical remake even though I've heard it's very good as well.

  • Gamera977

    And speaking of musical black comedies I picked up 'The Fox Family' 2006 Korea on DVD recently and watched it the other night.

    It's a funny as hell movie about a family of kumiho (Korean kitsune aka magical foxes that assume human form) who move down from the mountains and open a small carnival to lure in human prey.

    I couldn't find a Region 1 DVD or Region A Blu-Ray anywhere. But eBay is lousy with Region 2 copies. So I picked up a Region 2 DVD and the new region-free Blu-Ray player I just bought worked flawlessly…

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Tonight's 4K feature is "Picnic at Hanging Rock," a very early work from Peter Weir.

    Criterion gonna Criterion, so it's expensive but it's worth it IMHO. The imagery is beautiful–every frame looks like a painting from the 18th, 19th or early 20th century. It's just stunning in every respect.

    It's not a b-movie, a cult movie, a sci-fi or horror movie, so there's that. On the other hand, it's the very definition of "haunting."

    It might, in fact, be one of the greatest horror movies ever. Highly recommended.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    The musical remake is fine…it's available quite cheaply in both "theatrical" and "director's cut" versions on the same blu-ray. I bought it but haven't watched it yet. It basically takes the original film, ramps it up over ten, and adds songs. (Now, now, don't get the idea that this is a George Lucas 'Special Edition.' The songs are good.)

  • Eric Hinkle

    Would you agree with one judgement on the film I heard, that it works as cosmic horror?

  • Eric Hinkle

    Given how bloodthirsty kumiho are in Korean legend, I suspect they were toned down a lot to make it a comedy.

  • Gamera977

    And in legend they're always female. Here it's the dad, son, and two daughters. Most of the humour is in them trying to lure people in but they don't understand humans and keep freaking them out.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I think that's on Amazon Prime. Maybe I'll give it a look-see.

  • Gamera977

    It was on Amazon Prime when I first watched it years ago. Looks like it's for rent now for $2.99 for HD and $1.99 for SD. For whatever it's worth I enjoyed it.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Thanks!

  • Ken_Begg

    Yes, I think I have one or two of those, but not all three. My completest heart aches.

  • Ken_Begg

    I think so. They shot this in a weekend, while the Terror was shot over the course of, what, several years? And then they had to edit it down to something at least remotely comprehensible. I'd expect LSoH was even cheaper, although as you note that would be saying something.

  • It's a very good movie with fantastic songs. I lean theatrical over director's cut due to disliking the original ending, but you probably should see the ending at least once.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Mmmmaybe. For cosmic horror, you have to have some focus, even slight, on what happened to the girls, and once they disappear the focus is entirely on the people left behind, the search process, and so on. There's no hint that anything out of the ordinary has happened–for all we actually know, the girls just ran away.

  • I'm glad I'm not the only one that prefers the theatrical cut. I know that makes me terribly unsophisticated and stupider than the average bear etc. etc. eye roll. But I have a real distaste for that degree of nihilism in my musical comedies. It's not a satisfying emotional payoff either.

  • Definitely not satisfying. You come off of Mean Green Mother to that song, it's like tripping over your feet. I don't mind watching the end separate from the movie (and rarely), but at the end of the flick it just seems almost obnoxious.