Monster of the Day

Last Friday's watch party, the fifth and last for Spooktober 2026, was William Castle's The Night Walker. Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor, years after their divorce, it's pretty fun. The lack of Vincent Price keeps it from reaching the heights of House on Haunted Hill or The Tingler, but aside from some wheel-spinning…

Two Fridays ago the Watch Party enjoyed Horror at 37000 Feet, a 1973 telemovie and a modest crowd pleasure. Good cast (where all the money went, plainly); Chuck Connors, Buddy Ebsen, Roy Thinnes, Russell "The Professor" Johnson, Paul Winfield, Tammy Grimes, and easily the star of the show, William Shatner. He plays that '70s…

Finally finishing up with Assignment: Terror. The main monster, unsurprisingly, is another turn by the film's star, Paul Naschy, playing again his trademark role of Waldemar Daninsky. He fights both the Monster and the Mummy (which he dispatches with a not very werewolfy torch) before falling to the latest in a long line of…

This guy really suggests that the Frankenstein...pardon, the Farancksalan Monster having fallen into the Brundlefly Machine with Leonard Strong's The Craw. This guy (thankfully) does a bit more than the Mummy or Vampire, including when Rennie sets him on an alien underling while he's having sex with another team member. Not that jealousy is…

Still with Assignment: Terror. So there's a small group of aliens wanting to take over the Earth. Their planet is dying, the same motive as Christopher Lee's in the wacky Starship Invasions. That movie came later, but it's noticeable that the aliens here (led by a cravat-sporting Michael Rennie) basically are using Plan 9…

Friday's Watch Party feature was the Paul Naschy monster rally Assignment: Terror (1970), aka Monsters of Terror, aka Dracula vs Frankenstein, aka The Man from Uumo, aka several other titles. It did play in drive-ins and grind houses here under the Dracula vs Frankenstein title, one of three (!) separate films to play that…

Well, I don't know about "sexually normal," but...Happy Friday everyone. Watch something stupid this weekend. Heck, watch something stupid with out tonight at our weekly Halloween Discord Watch Party.

He'll probably be less effective after they tear off his arms, but man, that guy's a dude.

I'm sure I did this one before, but c'mon. That's just great. Happy Wednesday, everyone.

Friday's Discord Watch Party feature was Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1964). I'd never seen this before, and I don't think anyone else had either. Which is weird because it's the last time Lon Chaney Jr played a werewolf; let's call his unnamed character Terry Lalbot. He also played, briefly (by which I mean…