Great price today on Universal Sci-fi set at Amazon…
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Great price today on Universal Sci-fi set at Amazon…

This is the collected edition of the previously separate editions of the Classic Sci-Fi Collections. The price is currently only $32.35, nearly half off the full retail price. And for that, you get extremely nice presentations of TEN movies, quite a few of which are essential watches: Tarantula, The Mole People, The Incredible Shrinking…
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IMPORTANT: T-Fest venue unconfirmed….
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IMPORTANT: T-Fest venue unconfirmed….

  Sandy just informed me that the location of this year's event is still being hashed out. Sadly, it looks like the Barking Lizards offices will most likely NOT be available. Chances are that the Fest will be relocated to Sandy's house in Rockwall, outside of Dallas.  The date remains a week from Saturday…
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Monster of the Day #568
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Monster of the Day #568

  Have I really never done this before? Very neat film, and a great example of the 'blob' picture. Basically a Quatermass film sans Quatermass, although Dean Jagger proves an able replacement. Also offers one of the more surprisingly vicious death scenes for a film of this vintage. Every once in a while a…
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Halloween Horrors on TCM, starting tonight…
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Halloween Horrors on TCM, starting tonight…

Thanks to venerable FoJ Zombiewhacker  for compiling the following, rather comprehensive list of Halloween movies playing his month on TCM. This actually represents a lot more work than it looks like, as I know from having done similar stuff in the past. As he dryly notes at the end, "Other than that, nothing much…
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