Posts Tagged: Monster of the Day

Sorry for my absence yesterday; Joe Bannerman was visiting, and we spent much of the extended weekend (get ready) watching bad movies…actually, we watched more good movies, so it was weird that… Read Article →

Hard to get more Gothic than this. Blacula was pretty close, but the whole ‘black Dracula’ thing still injected a very modern note into things. This is one of those films (Warlock… Read Article →

I haven’t actually seen this one, but I’ve only heard good things. Of all the ’70s revisionist vampire films, this one might be the most revisioniest. Related PostsNot Monster of the Day… Read Article →

What a wonderful film. So far ahead of its time that if they revived it now, it would be considered utterly derivative. (Plus they would completely ruin it.) This is one of… Read Article →

’70s exploitation offered examined the intersection of traditional, gothic monsters with (then) modern American scene. Today this fish out of water element is largely forgone; vampires and werewolves are more likely to… Read Article →

Well, I mentioned this flick in the last MotD, so it’s a natural segue. Not Quarry’s more famous character, of course, but this is floating around on DVD for completists. And again,… Read Article →

We close out ’70s Wolfmen Week with this oddity (which, unlike yesterday’s subject, is available on DVD). Genre-crossing films were a lot rarer back then, although this film is a lot like… Read Article →

Oddly, I couldn’t find a good color still of this. This seems like the old Sam Arkoff sort of thing, where they thought of a title and then made the movie around… Read Article →

Take that, Nixon! Related PostsMonster of the Day #3681 (Feb 21, 2025) Monster of the Day #3680 (Feb 20, 2025) Monster of the Day #3679 (Feb 19, 2025) Monster of the Day… Read Article →

The prime time movies of the week back in the ’70s tended to be pretty solid. The studios supplying the networks eventually fed the maw by creating TV movie units. Like the… Read Article →