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A Fool and His Money June 26 2021

I have been on a crazy buying jag lately, mostly inspired by various sales done by boutique home video labels. This despite the fact that I have a billion DVDs/Blu Rays already stacked up in my house. So I thought I'd start listing my purchases so you guys can mock me and maybe, just…
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On a brief vacation next week….

Hey, everyone, not that this would be that unusual, but no posts until maybe Thursday night week. I'll be visiting my brothers down in Kentucky. Everyone have a fabulous week, and if you watch something fun this weekend, let us know below.
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Monster of the Day #3239
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Monster of the Day #3239

  Damn Germans! C'mon, guys, how can get something so basic that entirely wrong? Frankenstein is clearly not in scale to that woman. Happy weekend, everyone!
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Monster of the Day #3238
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Monster of the Day #3238

I don't think I ever got around to posting the monsters from A Quiet Place franchise, which I think now is a franchise. I'm sure there'll be a third film because the second won did quite well, just crushing the $200 million (!!) Cruella, for instance. So good on them. I will go back…
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Monster of the Day #3237
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Monster of the Day #3237

Boy, I haven't thought about The Goon in a while. Wonderful comic. I'm not even sure it they are still doing it. But hey, in a world where readers are fleeing en masse from mainstream American comics, there's Eric Powell's awesome independent comic book, full of comedy and monsters and fun, fun violence. I…
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Bowery at Midnight (1942)
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Bowery at Midnight (1942)

Although not as much fun as such other Bela Lugosi poverty row features as Devil Bat or The Invisible Ghost, Bowery at Midnight provides a decent amount of entertainment over its spare hour-long run time. Aside from Bela, the only other really notable names are actor Tom Neal, star of Edger Ulmer’s fatalistic Noir…
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Monster of the Day #3236
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Monster of the Day #3236

  The writers of the original Predators script are suing to reclaim the rights to the franchise--there's some sort of time limit thing, the writer of the original Friday the 13th script has been suing for the rights for years now--although they will inevitably be crushed or bought off by Disney. Predator 5 will…
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Monster of the Day #3235
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Monster of the Day #3235

Talking about Warning from Space inevitably brought up the far more spectacle-driven Gorath, also about Earth being on a collision course with a rogue planet. That one sticks with that narrative, though, and skips the aliens and whatnot. The film is kind of obscure because it's basically Toho's crazier version of When Worlds Collide.…
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Monster of the Day #3234
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Monster of the Day #3234

Even in Japan the posters for Warning from Space (this is art from a DVD release, but its from an old poster) basically lied about the film. (aka "ballyhoo") In the movie the aliens are man-sized and a neutral grey.  Here they are a threatening red and, it's suggested, quite large. All the saucers…
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Video Cheese: Warning from Space (1956)
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Video Cheese: Warning from Space (1956)

When I started watching my recently purchased Blu Ray for this film, I realized I had never seen it before. The lack of giant monsters and slow pacing probably kept it off American syndicated television. I know it didn’t play much or at all on broadcast TV when I was a youngster and ravenously…
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