Monster of the Day #3630

Monster of the Day #3630

Re: last Friday's watch party. I don't know if it's my computer or Kast or using Edge as my browser (which I do only for that, since Kast requires it), but I was having real issues getting the long movie I blathered on about all week. Finally, with the window for starting a long…
Monster of the Day #3629

Monster of the Day #3629

I've noted many times--including yesterday--that I have never derived much satisfaction from the many many Ultramans or the many many Ultraman knock-off shows. HOWEVER...I saw a long YouTube video on how the looniest Ultraman series was Ultraman Ace, which happily is all on YouTube. Seeing clips, I watched the second to last (of 52!)…
Monster of the Day #3628

Monster of the Day #3628

We next watched another episode of Ultra Q, Grow Up! LIttle Turtle. I always thought it as an independent short they bought and inserted into the show; tonally, it's like almost nothing else in the series, the usual leads are barely in it and tangential to the main action, etc. It's a real piece…
Monster of the Day #3627

Monster of the Day #3627

Father Time. The one monster who *always* wins. Still enough time for a Watch Party this week, though. (I mean, probably.) 7:45 CST this week.

Watch Party this Friday, STARTING EARLY

Hey, everyone. As discussed, I picked a somewhat longer movie this week because it was too good to pass up. It's under two hours, but fairly close to it, so we'll start at 7:45 CST rather than 8:00. I hope to see you there! Get ready for some prime turkey before Thanksgiving.
Monster of the Day #3626

Monster of the Day #3626

  By now a lot of the grandkiddies were around, so we watched Goro and Goro, probably the most kid friendly episode of Ultra Q (and they're basically all kid friendly). This is the one about the friendship between a mentally challenged guy and a giant monkey, which was created in two minutes by…
Monster of the Day #3625

Monster of the Day #3625

Last day of T-Fest 20. I stayed an extra day for more hang-out time. Chad R played another "Sirk Before He was Sirk" movie, Sign of the Pagan (1954). It's a regilious epic about Rome vs Genghis Khan. Jeff Chandler is the nominal lead as the head Roman, but he's stiff as a board…
Monster of the Day #3624

Monster of the Day #3624

Since we had watched a really good portmanteau movie, Tales of Terror, earlier that day,  I suggested we end the da watching the most charmingly bad one I knew, Gallery of Horror (1967). This ultra cheapie has the requisite star appearances--John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr.--but is basically like five of the laziest attempt at…
Monster of the Day #3623

Monster of the Day #3623

For some reason I couldn't find a color still of this. Oh well. We went back to basics for the next film, the Roger Corman Poe film Tales of Terror. One of the chapters sort of field tested the comic tone a few of the following movies adopted, such as The Raven. Vincent Price,…