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The Power of Hollywood today….

So Microsoft had a little quiz this morning. You were supposed to pick out the five films among the following list that Emma Watson appeared in: Perks of Being a Wallflower Beauty and the Beast The Bling Ring Victor Frankenstein Kill Your Darlings Imperium This Is the End Colonia I honestly was not aware…
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Watch Party Mea Culpa / Next WP a week from Friday

First, my sincere apologies to everyone, but especially the Rev, who was hosting that night and put through a lot of stress due to my incompetence. Lesson(s) learned: Amazon not only drops movies overnight (well, duh), but they might only offer films for three or six months. Those Cannon martial arts movies hadn't been…
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Monster of the Day #3374
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Monster of the Day #3374

  I learned another bitter lesson on Friday about how quickly Amazon Prime drops movies. So for anyone who hasn't seen, Prime currently features both Blacula and Scream Blacula Scream (and, I think, Sugar Hill). So go over and watch those while they are still there.
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Monster of the Day #3373
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Monster of the Day #3373

It finally came out on Blu Ray, so I ended thing with the traditional giant monster movie: Yeti Giant of the 20th Century. It's...Italian. Very, very Italian. Watch Party tonight!
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Monster of the Day #3372
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Monster of the Day #3372

  So after Them! Jeff showed Hell's Belles, a rather weird biker film (Jeff LOVES biker films) about a guy following a biker gang who's leader stole his motorcycle. It takes a while for everyone to escalate to killing, and the hero is at times a gigantic a-hole. Pretty good, and interestingly formless in…
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Monster of the Day #3371
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Monster of the Day #3371

After Kaiju Mono, Chad R showed Used Cars, which he's been holding for a while. I hadn't seen it since the night it opened in theaters back in the day. (Remember when you used to go see movies all the time? Did we change, or did the movies?) It's pretty great. If you haven't…
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Monster of the Day #3370
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Monster of the Day #3370

So finally, Basement Fest 2022, the second edition of our B-Fest replacement (probably a stand alone next year, though), began. Many of the Jabootu crew were there: our hosts Paul (who actually sprung the old Ken's World of Awful Movies site on me back in prehistoric times, and thus led directly to Jabootu) and…
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Monster of the Day #3369
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Monster of the Day #3369

OK, we ran through B-Fest 2021 (attended, again, only by the Chads). Today we finish up Julie and Tim Fest. Then it's on to the second annual Basement Fest. I suspect that most of us will return to B-Fest next year, and that Basement Fest will also continue. Who knows, maybe Julie and Tim…
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Monster of the Day #3368
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Monster of the Day #3368

In a fitting moment, we followed James Cameron's first movie with Peter Jackson's first movie. It's insane to think that the guy who made the extremely aptly named Bad Taste for like $100 later directed the Lord of the Rings trilogy, a work that at present looks like it might be the last great…
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