Dinner Thursday….

Updated on August 18, 2010 By Ken Begg 19 Comments

The Hickory Hollow in Houston, the one in The Heights, will again be the site of our dinner tomorrow (Thursday) around 7:00.

Anyone needing details can leave a note below. Otherwise, see you tomorrow.

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  • currently near the end of T-Fest. In this order, we watched:

    GORILLA AT LARGE
    INVISIBLE RAY
    BLOOD FEAST
    MYSTICS OF BALI
    BRAINIAC
    DINOSAURUS

    Plus some great shorts, including Treevenge.

  • Rock Baker

    Dinosaurus! and Gorilla at Large seem like weak targets for mockery, and the Invisible Ray is actually pretty good isn’t it? I guess the fellowship is what its all about, but your choices seem a little light for the kind of sneering and jeering I’ve heard of from your shows. I’ll bet The Brainiac was a scream under those conditions though.

  • The Rev. D.D.

    Per Ken, after the brutal line-up at T(ween)-Fest, they decided to take it easy and not play any mind killers this go-round.*

    I doubt this interpretation, as it would imply mercy from the likes of Ken, Chris, and Sandy, and I just don’t see that happening, and suspect a far more sinister reason. For example, lulling us into a false sense of security and then blasting us next year with a line-up forged in the very bowels of cinematic Hell.

    *Blood Feast could have been, but we’d seen Wizard of Gore earlier this year; BF is a cake walk in comparison, awful awful acting notwithstanding.

  • The biggest “complaint” we had this year is that none of the movies were really all that bad. My response is “What about Blood Feast?”, but then they say, “It was bad, but it was no Wizard of Gore.” So I guess we’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t.

  • The Rev.

    I had no problem with the line-up; it was a lot of fun. It was actually kind of refreshing to not have a fresh new mental scar after a T-Fest.

    If BF had been my first HGL movie I’d probably say it was horrible and talk about how evil you are for playing it. It was, however, my fifth; compared to most of the others, it couldn’t match up in terms of badness. It was easily the worst of the day, though; I think for sheer volume, it’s the worst acting I’ve seen in one of HGL’s movies. I mean, one fair to middlin’ actor and a bunch of painfully bad ones? Damn!

    I loved the crowd reaction to Connie Mason’s first line read: an awed, almost reverent, “Wow.”

  • BeckoningChasm

    Okay, all right, if I’m still alive a year from now, I’ll go.

    Ken can warn you now how boring I am, so that’s not only a warning, it’s like an extra movie.

  • Reed

    I really enjoyed this year’s line up. Well, I can’t really say that I “enjoyed” Blood Feast, but it was definitely an interesting watching experience. Mystics of Bali, though, was everything that I had hoped it would be. I love this little gathering for giving me a chance to see things like The Harrad Experiment, ROTOR, and Mystics of Bali.

    The fact that ROTOR made a cameo appearance in Gorilla at Large was too funny, as was the person who pointed out that ROTOR backwards was ROTOR.

  • Chris Magyar, designer of the current site and sometimes Jabootu scribe, made the “ROTOR spelled backwards” jape. Buffs of a certain age will recognize this as an allusion (“It’s an A-LUUUUUUUU-SION!) to an old timey kiddie sci fi flick called Tobor the Great, for which the tag line was “Tobor is robot spelled backwards.”

  • Rock Baker

    When I was a kid, Pop loved to joke about the Tobor line. “Tobor is robot spelled backwards, and Gort is robot spelled sideways.”

  • Rock – There is no such thing as a weak target for mockery. Gorilla at Large was a hoot.

  • Rock Baker

    I’m sure it was, but I’ve always considered Gorilla at Large to be the type of film that’s a hoot on its own merits, by which I mean legit entertainment as intended because it was a killer gorilla movie with a neat cast and a gimmick (though I sadly feel I may never see the film in 3D). But I doubt the quality of the movie is really the most important issue for such a show. I’m sure you guys would have just as grand a time talking back to 30 Seconds over Tokyo as you do talking back to The Brainiac. Am I wrong? It’s all about getting together for a fun time, isn’t it? If you wanted to just critique old movies you could do that on your own time and in your own home.

  • GalaxyJane

    Rock,
    Having seen “Gorilla at Large” in 3D as a kid during the brief early 80s revival of all things 3D, I can assure you you haven’t missed much. I remember being underwhelmed even at the time (it was my first 3D movie ever), and seeing it again at T-Fest really underscored why. It’s basically 60 minutes or so of !!!HOT 3D WALKING AND TALKING ACTION!!!! with a short bit of the gorilla semi-menacing the audience by rattling it’s cage at the beginning and end. Even the trapeze scenes never show the artist swinging towards the camera, every time she leaps from the platform towards the audience, the camera immediately cuts to a side view. It’s a nifty little flick, great setting, but the 3D angle is completely wasted.

    I admit I’m one of the ones slightly sorry there was no candidate for the agonizer this year, perhaps it’s because I was mercifully spared the rigors of Tween-fest, but I feel like there should always be at least one flick that’s not merely survived, but endured, to be worn as a badge of honor forever more. “Oh, you think that’s bad, I once spent 2 hours watching Whoopi Goldburg fight crime with an anthropomorphic dinosaur, now that’s PAIN,” etc., etc.

    Darnit, watching GAL really does make me want to dig up my old “Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park” tape. And a VHS player. I am way too fond of movies set in amusement parks. I’ll even give “Rollercoaster” a pass.

  • Reed

    When Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park was first broadcast I was living in Reston, Virginia and I was a huge Kiss fan. Still am a huge Kiss fan, as far as that goes. The little black and white tv (kids, ask your parents!) that I had available went on the fritz 15 minutes into the movie, and I had to watch the rest of it without a picture.

    Imagine that to yourself; watching a dark screen and listening to Kiss Meets the Phantom. After you’re done asking yourself “why the hell would anyone do that,” take a minute to contemplate just how lame that movie is even with visuals. It was much worse without them, and it made me think that Kiss were just cynical bastards who, perhaps, didn’t really care if they put out a quality product or not as long as kids were willing to sit in front of blank screens in the hope of hearing their musical heroes macking on invisible chicks (which doesn’t happen) and singing ‘Rip rip, rip and destory’ (which unfortunately does). I think it was my first real disillusionment as a kid.

    Actually, it’s rather like Sandy’s relationship with HGL. Sandy, I feel your pain.

  • GalaxyJane

    Darnit, now I’m just thinking what a painful line-up we could have if all we showed were disastrous vanity projects by various musical groups over the years.”Sgt. Pepper” anyone? Last time I watched that cinematic nightmare, George Burns died the next day, I’m convinced it was from shame. “Can’t Stop the Music”? “SpiceWorld”? “Tommy”? “Chastity”? The list is long and they all make “Dark Floors” look like art in comparison.

    Sorry, drifted off into a tangent didn’t I? What were we supposed to be discussing again?

  • Ken’s been wanting to bring “The Oscar” for some time now. Perhaps we can see that Liberace movie, “The Apple”, “Sgt Pepper” (which I saw on the big screen when it came out), “Kiss and the Phantom of the Park”, “At Long Last Love” and so forth.

    All in favor, raise your hideously deformed flipper of a right arm.

  • Ericb

    Wouldn’t there need to be a T-Rex movie in there somewhere or is this a different fest you are talking about?

  • BeckoningChasm

    T-Fest apparently KILLED the monster of the day!

  • GalaxyJane

    This might cover both bases nicely, too bad it won’t be out for a while.

    http://www.helium.com/items/1816436-rob-zombie-tyrannosaurus-rex-movie-movie-preview

    I suppose it’d only be a technical win in the T-rex department.

  • Kirk

    Don’t forget “Can’t Stop the Music.”