Monster of the Day #3537

Updated on June 26, 2024 By Ken Begg 18 Comments

If YouTube had existed back in the day there definitely would have been a channel dedicated to comparing what the poster promised and what the movie delivered. Even so, again, at least with Corman’s films you got surprisingly decent film making and generally a witty script and decent to very good acting.

Pin It



Related Posts

  • Kirk Draut

    Not unlike the huge disconnect between the amazing art on an Atari 2600 cartridge and the actual game. We had really good imaginations back then.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Tonight's blue-ray feature was "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown – Worship it Before it Destroys You."

    This is not the infamous version you've read about here and there, this is actually an earlier version completed about five months before that one (and a year or so before the actual special that aired).

    I was frankly shocked and kind of sickened by the level of violence and gore in this one–some of the torture scenes are unwatchable (I couldn't watch them). The description you've read make it sound pretty gruesome, but this version is beyond hideous.

    Vinegar Syndrome have done their usual outstanding job, locating the original 16mm elements and cleaning them up (ironically). Extras include an isolated soundtrack (by Igor Stravinsky, of all people), interviews with the survivors, an introduction by Count Gore DeVol (who also hosts a trivia quiz) and an essay by Michael Caine.

    It's pretty distressing, honestly, so I'm not sure I recommend it, but it's…there.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    well played my friend

  • Gamera977

    Is this the one where lacking a black cat Linus attempts to sacrifice Garfield to The Great Pumpkin?

  • Beckoning Chasm

    There's a scene similar to that early on, but I don't remember what the cat looked like. I was too dismayed to see–and I hope you're all sitting down–that they showed Linus smoking cigarettes.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    Linus casually snuffed out the cigarette butt in Garfield's lasagna.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Right before he casually snuffed Garfield.

  • Eric Hinkle

    OT but someone elsewhere online pointed out that Popeye the Sailor Man is going to be public domain next year. They added that Cthulhu was already PD and wondered: "When Popeye and Cthulhu are both public domain, can we have them fight?"

    Which inspired me to write:
    "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man (Toot-toot),
    I'm Popeye the Sailor Man (Toot-toot).
    If Cthulhu comes up from the deep
    I'll leave 'im a heap.
    I'm Popeye the Sailor Man (Toot-toot!)"

  • zombiewhacker

    I have great affection for the old B&W Fleischer's cartoons. A shame their popularity apparently hasn't carried over to today's generation.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    They were put out on DVD some years ago–I bought vol 1. They still might be available.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I think some of them are on YT for free. I know the Sinbad and Aladdin ones are, and they are amazing.

  • Ken_Begg

    ah, the classics never die…

    Still remember the guy who raged at me because he spent three days searching on the Internet to see if it was real (this is before search engines–man, I'm old–so that was laborious back then. The site didn't even have a dedicated URL!). I pointed out he could have just asked me. He stayed mad and said I should add a big "SATIRE" warning to the piece so people wouldn't be confused. Because that's how comedy works. "THIS IS FAKE!" would have been a great start to the thing.

  • Ken_Begg

    Get ready for the AI new "Fleischer" cartoons, then. Ah, who knows, some of them might be good.

    The song might still be copyrighted, though.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Hah! To be fair, though, I've seen some utterly deranged things described online that later turned out to be true.

  • Rodford Smith

    I was showing the Sinbad one at MarCon during a free period in the video room several years ago. Even on VHS (all that was available at the time) it was amazing.

    However, a guy walked in, watched for a moment, declared "That's a three-level shot! Only Disney could do a three-level shot!" and stormed out, offended.

  • Rodford Smith

    So have you seen the fan art image for "Popeye vs. Godzilla"? ;-)

  • Eric Hinkle

    Wait, this guy was offended that the Fleischers were doing animation as good as Disney back in the 40's?

  • Eric Hinkle

    I didn't even know it existed! Is it on DeviantArt, by any chance?