Monster of the Day #1252
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Monster of the Day #1252

  DC was known for always pumping up sales of their superhero comics by putting a gorilla on the cover (hence Grodd, Titano, etc.). For their supernatural (very light) horror books, it was skeletons, skeletons, skeletons. You're getting no complaints from me. Just from Ghosts--this is the very first cover of that book--I could…
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Monster of the Day #1251
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Monster of the Day #1251

Then he ties her to some railroads...himself! That's one handy killer robot. What I'll almost remember about this movie (which isn't saying much), is that if you ever wanted to see Walter Keonig in cinema's least motivated sex scene, here's your change.
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Monster of the Day #1250
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Monster of the Day #1250

Not a lot more Ash vs Evil Dead monsters yet, unless I just keep doing Deadites. Luckily, Campbell was in plenty of movies with monsters.
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Short new piece….

It's down in the Nuggets, so I wasn't sure people would see it. It's my roundtable piece, and I reposted a nugget from the old site for a film with a similar theme.
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The Corpse Grinders (1971)
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The Corpse Grinders (1971)

We’re returning to familiar ground here. This is the third film from Ted V. Mikels’ Golden Age (1966-1973). Of course, golden ages are relative. We’re not talking John Ford here by any means. Yet in those seven years Mikels made six films that have maintained a good level of clunky charm. This is the…
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Jabootu Repost: Strays (1991)
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Jabootu Repost: Strays (1991)

Plot: Night of the Living Dead, only with housecats instead of zombies. For whatever reason, the killer cat genre remains a surprisingly robust one. I mean, I can understand movies being centered on killer dogs, because dogs could actually, you know, kill you. In contrast, killer cat movies—by which I mean films featuring regular-sized…
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