Posts by Ken Begg

When Mondo Macabre releases a new film, I pay attention. When it's a crazy Indonesian action flick, I crack open the wallet. (Although, really, it's not that hard to get me to open that.) I had watched the first five minutes of 1981's The Warrior and, upon seeing a bad dummy made of rubber,…

OK, it took forever, but I finally mastered at least showing YouTube videos on Discord for our watch parties. The secret? You can't use the Discord app (??), you have to use the website. The only downside is that once you're in there it takes up the full screen so you can't get to…

Next up was The Black Room (1935), a gothic suspenser revolving around a family curse / prophecy. It stars the great Boris Karloff in a marvelous twin role (literally)--or a triple role, depending on how you look at it. Needless to say, he carries it all off with aplomb. Even better, the running time…

We finally got out of the '50s and '60s, but there was continuity. Next up (I *think* Jamie and Mike suggested it?) was the French film The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010). It was a pre-WWI set Perils of Pauline type film with mummies--lots of mummies this weekend. I knew I wouldn't love…

Oopsie. We didn't watch Pharaoh's Curse and From Hell it Came back to back, but in the middle watch the very fun (and for the time, quite grisly) Island of Terror. That makes sense. All are '50s and 60s monster movies, but putting a color film in the middle switches things up. I can't…

We wanted to introduce Jamie and Mike to one authentic classic, so we followed up Pharaoh's Curse with From Hell it Came. Ah, the Tabonga. That's the stuff right there.

Sandy Petersen likes mummy movies. I know because two of his favorite childhood monster movies are oddball mummy movies. There's a married couple, Mike and Jamie (Mike blew all day waiting for my several times delayed flight to arrive to come pick me up at the airport---thanks, dude!), delightful people, who have been joining…

Yes, that looks like an authentic old timey western dress, all right. I should have been at the airport by now, but I guess they are having weather in Dallas so my flight got delayed five hours. Pray it does not get delayed again. (Darth Vader voice) Anyway, (eventually) off to Texas. See some…