Monster of the Day #3032

Monster of the Day #3032

Mausoleum is a classic '80s gonzo supernatural horror movie, ala The Jar or Supernatural. Green glowing eyes pervade, there's great latex monster prosthetics, gore effects, there's a bit of a name cast (by the standards of folks like us, anyway) of Marjoe Gortner and Bobbie Bresee and Bobbie Bresee's Naked Breasts. (Again, the '80s.) …
Monster of the Day #3031

Monster of the Day #3031

In Bill Warren's absolutely essential survey of 1950s sci-fi films, Keep Watching the Skies!, he actually continues to cover films from the first couple of years of the 1960s because they're fundamentally '50s' films in spirit.  1961's Phantom Planet proves his argument. It's wonky and a bit dull but really feels like a '50s…
Monster of the Day #3030

Monster of the Day #3030

There's a really nice (pirated, no doubt, so see it while you can) print of The Boogens on YouTube. It's one of those little gems you stumble across occasionally, that manages to nail so many basic things--nice script, characterization, good acting, some extremely nice sets--in a way that makes you wonder why so many…
Monster of the Day #3029

Monster of the Day #3029

Cult Cinema Classics hasn't (gasp) added a monster movie in the last day or two. They did add the goofy Vincent Price proto-Giallo The Bat, but there's no monster there. Still fun, though. As it turns out, though, there are like, I don't know, dozens of movies on YouTube from sources other than CCC.…
Monster of the Day #3028

Monster of the Day #3028

I know what you're thinking. But they didn't even have CGI back then. How did they do it? OK, it's no Gorilla at Large (that movie is great), but if you only watch one movie where Raymond Burr might be turning into a gorilla, make it Bride of the Gorilla. Available for free watching…
Monster of the Day #3027

Monster of the Day #3027

The Cult Cinema Classics channel on YouTube has been on a vintage schlock run lately. In the last week they've post Fog Island (with George Zucco and Lionel Atwill), the previously mentioned They Saved Hilter's Brain, The Corpse Vanishes and Jabootu subject Invisible Ghost (probably the daffiest of the Lugosi poverty row pics), Bride…
Monster of the Day #3026

Monster of the Day #3026

FoJ Gamera977 suggested Sector 7. There was a time (I'm sure I've said this before) when I looked at my thousands of DVDs and Blu Rays and thought, why did I bother. Everything's on streaming. That's not true, though. I know Sector 7 used to be available somewhere, but now it's not on Amazon…
Monster of the Day #3025

Monster of the Day #3025

I looked for a picture of Maximilian from The Black Hole (which I must admit I've never seen), but I couldn't find a menacing one. I think it might be available on Disney Plus. Anyway, in lieu of that, here's the monster from the obscure monster slasher flick The Slayer from 1982. Available for…
Monster of the Day #3024

Monster of the Day #3024

So the Cult Cinema Classics channel on YouTube just posted our old friend They Saved Hitler's Brain, which like Curse of Bigfoot was an old, short silly movie that filmmakers later added half an hour of related footage to so as to make it movie length for TV sales. Still, the image of Hitler's…
Monster of the Day #3023

Monster of the Day #3023

Got a movie you want to push for a bit more home viewing before, hopefully, the lock downs start expiring? FoJ BChasm has a suggestion: "What must be the most adorable killer robot ever, from1995's "Screamers," a criminally underrated film. In the film, Peter Weller describes it as a "reptile" but anyone watching this…