Video Cheese: Innocent Bystanders (1972)
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Video Cheese: Innocent Bystanders (1972)

I found a site called Hamilton Book, which apparently is an aftermarket book and blu ray/DVD retailer. They had a number of blu rays on sale pretty cheap, and some where cheap enough—like $5 a throw—that I took a flyer on some of them. This is one of those. It’s an Olive Blu Ray,…
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Monster of the Day #3225
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Monster of the Day #3225

  Who has two thumbs and owns a Barbie figure? This guy! Hmm, that joke might not work at well in text. This would actually be a more fitting image for a Monday, but hey, let's go with it. I don't know how I saw this in the store (or Amazon?), but I bought…
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Monster of the Day #3224

Well, Tuesday was the day I left Dallas. We got in a showing of Mako Jaws of Death off the recent William Grefe box set He Came from the Swamp. I'd never seen it, so it was good to check it off. Basically it was Willard Meets Jaws, with a typically intense lead performance…
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Monster of the Day #3223
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Monster of the Day #3223

OK, Monday, still some folks left, so viewings continued. We started with Panic Beats, a Paul Naschy film that was sort of a mix (I mean, Naschy films being highly derivative is not exactly new) of Twitch of the Death Nerve and particularly Diabolique. Fun, but I'll be frank and admit several weeks later…
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Monster of the Day #3222
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Monster of the Day #3222

As Sunday continued, we watched two horror movies that only faintly offered monsters. The Black Pit of Dr M is probably the best and most atmospheric of the Mexican horror films. It's crazy, of course, but man, it's gorgeous. Then we watched an episode of the original The Tomorrow People, and if you think…
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Monster of the Day #3221
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Monster of the Day #3221

Following the Fest was Sunday for all the people who can hang around. Sandy re-showed the Man From UNCLE episode that coincidentally guest starred both of the pre-Star Trek William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, not to mention also Werner Klemperer. It's pretty great. Next we watched the obscure oddity Sound of Horror, known primarily…
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Monster of the Day #3220
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Monster of the Day #3220

Few monsters this year. Sandy followed Horror and Hamsters with The Battles of Chief Pontiac (1952), a cheapie pre-American Revolution epic with Lon Chaney Jr as the titular, peace-seeking American Indian. There's a James Arness-y style frontier hero who seeks the same, but all is thwarted, not by the British, honest and beleagured, but…
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Monster of the Day #3219
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Monster of the Day #3219

We opened this year's spring T-Fest with The Brute Man, a neat efficient semi-horror starring the tragic Rondo Hatton.  Next we got our first monster film, the extremely weird anthology flick Horror and Hamsters. It delivers exactly what the title promises; short (if eventually not short enough) vignettes of horror with dollops of black…
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Monster of the Day #3218
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Monster of the Day #3218

Friday night continued with Fly Away Baby, a film from the Torchy Blaine B-movie series. Torchy was, as GalaxyJane noted (she provided the film from the set of them she owned), "Lois Lane who never met Clark Kent." It's weird, because we know there were never strong, spunky female characters until the current generations…
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Monster of the Day #3217
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Monster of the Day #3217

So, anyway, T(ween) Fest 2021. A roaring success, in that we had basically everyone return (who was just regularly available) after cancelling one event last year and having limited attendance--for obvious reasons--last fall. Back to normal, baby. Apparently the Houston Group of myself, Jeff and Kirk and Patty missed the very first unofficial flick…
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