Posts by Ken Begg

Never saw Night of the Creeps, but I think it's well regarded and it has Tom Atkins in it. One of these days, maybe.

The 80s was the last golden age for monster movies. They really seem to have fallen out of favor. (I think because most monsters are done via CGI now rather than played by actors.) Still, I haven't seen a lot of these because it was also the golden age of gore movies, which was…

I don't know Art, but I know what I like.

New evidence suggests how the Americans won the Revolutionary War.

Japan seems to me to be a conflicted country when it comes to women. On the one hand, as late as World War II the soldiers of that country were establishing rape camps in their conquered nations. (One among many atrocities, mostly unacknowledged to this day.) However, Japanese horror cinema--and folklore--is rife with the…

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. For myself, as every year for several decades now, I'm extremely thankful for all the friends I've made from this site. God bless you all. This is a real mural powerwashed onto Iwayagawauchi Dam in Saga Prefecture. How great is that? Japan, you crazy kids, never change.

The second film in the Daiei Gothic set is The Snow Woman (1968). Snow Woman go back a way in Japanese folk lore, and pop up in other media like manga and anime. Interviews with Monster Girls for instance. Any man who meets them risks being mesmerized and then frozen solid. I think I'll…

With companies scrambling to release nearly all of the hundreds of Shaw Bros. kung fu movies--Shout Factory is releasing it's fifth such set, Arrow it's third, etc.--they are starting to hit other Asian movie niches. It's a great time to be a B-movie geek. Shout Factory has released sets of erotic scf-fi and ghosts,…

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…