Great triple bill late tonight on TCM!

Updated on July 31, 2009 By Ken Begg 15 Comments

Thanks to the Rev. for sending me word on this.  The following are featured tonight (early Saturday morning) on TCM’s on again / off again Friday night “Underground” cult movie slot:

All times Eastern Standard

2:00  Monster A-Go-Go A former MST3K subject, and just amazingly awful and fun junk.
3:15 The Giant Spider Invasion ‘Nuff said!
4:45 Die Monster Die!  Not the best Lovecraft movie, but hey, it stars Boris Karloff.

Thanks, TCM!  And more, please!

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  • Chad R.

    Would that third one be Die, Monster, Die!?

  • Details, details.

  • “not the best Lovecraft movie”. Jeeze I’ll say.

  • Ericb

    They completely ruined one of his best stories. The conventional explanation of the meteorite at the end was as unLovecraftian as you could get.

  • Ericb

    Oops, sorry for the spoiler.

  • roger h.

    want copies Ken? can do.

  • Good to see this since I get TCM, even here in Manila. I agree about the horrible Lovecraft adaptation. The only really good one I have ever seen was “Dagon” (not including the “Cool Air” episode of Rod Serling’s “Night Gallery”).

  • The Rev. D.D.

    If you ever get the chance, Henry, see The Resurrected. Not only is it one of the more faithful Lovecraft adaptations I’ve ever seen, it’s one of the best to boot. It probably helps that it was based on “The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward,” which is one of the most filmable of Lovecraft’s stories, in my opinion.

    I look forward to finally seeing Monster A Go-Go later this week…and inflicting TGSI on my loved ones.

  • Petoht

    Henry, you should check out the version of Cool Air done by Lurker Films (netflix has it). It’s very well done, and has some nice shorts on the same disc.

  • Thanks for the suggestions,guys. I’ll have to get with my contacts in the States to assist with securing these for viewing.

  • Gristle McThornbody

    “I look forward to finally seeing Monster A Go-Go later this week…” – The Rev. D.D.

    You may very well be the first carbon-based lifeform to have ever uttered those words. Remember, this is the film that the MST3K crew said was officially the worst film they’d ever done.

    Good luck!

  • JazzyJ

    Agree with the dislike for “Die Monster Die”… There wasn’t even a monster! Sheesh!

    Anyway, not directly Lovecraftian, but very much in the spirit, “In the Mouth of Madness” works pretty well for me. Love “Dagon” as well.

  • The Rev. D.D.

    Gristle McThornbody–

    Yeah, but I also looked forward to seeing Manos: The Hands of Fate, R.O.T.O.R., and Blood Freak.

    It’s a sickness.

  • FS

    Giant Spider Invasion was also an MST3K episode.

  • I feel that Stuart Gordon’s versions of Re-Animator and From Beyond are passable. Also the silent-movie version of Call of Cthulhu is fun. So there are several mostly-good HPL adaptations. Then there are Lovecraftian influences in other movies, such as Hellboy and Deep Rising.