Monster of the Day #3497

Updated on September 20, 2024 By Ken Begg 8 Comments

Happy Friday, everyone! Have a great weekend! Watch something stupid. In fact, watch something stupid with us tonight at our Watch Party. I think we’ve got another crowd pleaser tonight but time will tell.

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  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    Alex Cord. Not quite Tom Selleck or Sam Elliot but a nice try.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I don't think either of them could have done a better job handling a cat inside another cat.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    OT, but the Daleks lost their voice today. RIP David Graham.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Missed the watch party, so watched some 60's "Outer Limits" episodes. "O.B.I.T" predicted cell phones and social media addiction way back in the 60's. And said it would destroy us all. And they were right, though the monsters don't come from space, they come from the land of kung pao chicken.

    And then…"Corpus Earthling." This remains the scariest television thing I've ever seen.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Tonight's 4K feature was "Barbarella." I'm sure you've all seen it. Looks fantastic in 4K–a little too detailed for the sets and stuff. But you know…imagine it as a 3rd Doctor story, with no Doctor, Jo with bigger boobs, and the Master kind of an idiot, and there you go. It's fun and colorful but pretty much forgettable when it's over.

    But I guess Dino liked it, because "Flash Gordon" years later is very similar–very colorful, very imaginative visually, but you gotta be in the "That Dino, what a guy!" mindset to really enjoy it fully, and forgive its filmic shortcomings. Both are so colorful that they give "The Wizard of Oz" a run for the "Most resplendent use of color, ever" sweepstakes.

    The sets and stuff look really imaginative and cool, but with DeLaurentiis, you can see the seams in 4K. (Though the angel wings here are much better than the Hawkmen wings in "Flash Gordon.") "Starcrash" is a much poorer cousin to this film.

    And the "Leather men" guards show up again in "Krull" (not a Dino DeLaurentiis production).

    I would definitely recommend it, though I'd give the edge to "Flash Gordon" because there's no one here with the gravitas of Max Von Sydow, and no "Flash! Ah-aah!" on the soundtrack.

    Also, the lack of Brian Blessed is keenly felt.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Sunday's blue-ray feature was "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" from Kino Lorber. Image and sound are terrific, as one usually expects from KL.

    The film itself is a personal favorite, and I regard it as the most Sam Peckinpah film of all the Sam Peckinpah films (and yes I include "Salad Days"). It's a very sad descent into Hell for Warren Oates, a very underrated actor who gives it his all here. Someone described it as "the dirtiest person in the world has his finger on your tongue" and I think that's pretty accurate. It would make a really grim and depressing double feature with William Friedkin's "Sorcerer" as a "Life is Hell and You Can Never Escape" evening.

    I don't watch it all that often, but I do watch it. Bonus: Kris Kristofferson gets killed. Who wouldn't want to see that?

    Kind of recommended. I mean, mostly not. But kinda. YMM definitely V.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    I was really surprised on how much I like that film. Always enjoy a Warren Oates performance.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    He was even quite good as the Fried Egg Monster.