Monster of the Day #490
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Monster of the Day #490

Truly a pioneer of cinema, Méliès was one of the first to exploit the eerie uncanniness of skeletons. And jazz hands. Dance ten, looks three.
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Tuesdays With Lorre: Background to Danger (1943)
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Tuesdays With Lorre: Background to Danger (1943)

This was easily the most satisfying film I’ve watched so far in my Unseen Lorre Fest. Passage to Marseille was probably a better film (and certainly portions of it were markedly superior). Still, Lorre has a pretty juicy part in this one, is allowed to ham things up and thankfully receives a pretty decent…
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Monster of the Day #487
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Monster of the Day #487

Our week of monsters banding together to fight evil concludes with two similar TV examples. Just as Land of the Lost and Valley of the Dinosaurs were basically cartoon / live action Saturday morning kiddie versions of each other, so were Monster Squad (with future Love Boat co-star and then Congressman Fred Grandy) and…
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TCM DVD request…
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TCM DVD request…

Sorry to keep bugging you fine folks, but TCM will be showing Mask of Dimitrios on June 12th at 1:30 AM (any recorder would want to check the local time for their time zone). I've never seen this, always wanted to, and more important, it would be an essential pic for my Tuesdays with…
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Monster of the Day #486
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Monster of the Day #486

So the Legion of Monsters lay dormant after their one appearance in the '70s (as seen yesterday), but were apparently revived recently. Man-Thing and Ghost Rider were not to be found, but Morbius the vampire and Jack Russell (seriously), the Werewolf by Night, came back. Added were, apparently, the Living Mummy and a gill…
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Monster of the Day #485
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Monster of the Day #485

In the '70s, the voluntary Comics Code weakened, and supernatural characters came roaring back. Marvel here attempted to make a super-team of some of their monster characters, which obviously failed, since they never reunited. (Although recently the team was revived with several of the original monsters.) I have this comic--duh, it had Ghost Rider…
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Steel Justice (1992)
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Steel Justice (1992)

Pretty much from the beginning of this site, and thus way back in the days of the VHS tape, I maintained that the last, great untapped source of Jabootu fare was the bad TV pilot. Sadly, these have historically been nearly impossible to track down. A few were released to VHS, but few indeed…
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UPDATE: Monster of the Day #484
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UPDATE: Monster of the Day #484

  I hope no one finds this too facetious, but in honor of Memorial Day yesterday, let's remember that even monsters hated the Nazis. UPDATE: BC queried in the comment below, "I can’t tell from the image, but is the vampire wearing a uniform?" I don't know, but here's a scene where I think…
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