Today’s Monster of the Day should be Freeman Williams, who along with Chris Holland and, of course, Sandy Petersen started T-Fest. Back at the first show Freeman, who was obviously in attendance, showed the extremely fun Chamber of Horrors. Unfortunately, this year he couldn’t attend, but he was still given a slot, and he showed 1973’s pretentious hippie movie The Naked Ape. Look, there are (unwritten) rules to these things. You can show whatever horrors you want, but YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE THERE TO SUFFER THROUGH THEM TOO. Bad form, Freeman. Bad form.
That lead to the shorts block (including Chris Holland’s nostalgic choice of the short where beautiful Lapland women castrate reindeer with their teeth). Then we got our bi-yearly quiz, again set up by Quizmaster Chad Richard. Chad Jones ran away with that one, he really killed everyone. Then off to Saltgrass for dinner.
Back to Sandy’s for the evening block. First was his choice, the Spanish horror film Day of the Beast. Honestly, I didn’t expect very much from that, as it was made by the director of Accion Mutante, one of those extremely antic films that I personally just find a bit wearisome. This one seemed a lot more linear, though, and I liked it a lot more. It’s basically about an extremely mild mannered priest who fears the Apocalypse is approaching, and so determines to become a great enough sinner to draw the Devil to him so he can thwart the birth of the Anti-Christ, or something like that. Again, it was pretty good, I thought.
