Monster of the Day #3499

Monster of the Day #3499

I was asked if I had anything to start off the Sunday bonus movies. I had a fancy blu ray edition of the *cough* Canadian giant monster movie Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century, so we went with that. It stars one of the Bee Gees, although I'm not a big enough fan to…
Monster of the Day #3498

Monster of the Day #3498

So after Jaws the Revenge we showed a Tod Slaughter film. Because I messed up this was Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn (the actual full title), which is the mildest of Slaughter's handful of films. Of course, that's mild for a Slaughter film, so it was still pretty great. And I…
Monster of the Day #3497

Monster of the Day #3497

First things first, Friday's new Watch Party format, using Kast.gg, was a success. Kudos to GalaxyJane for helping me with a technical issue. The one downside is that since I'm sharing me screen, people can apparently actually see me typing my notes, which I'm very awkward at. So there goes my mystic as a…
Monster of the Day #3496

Monster of the Day #3496

(They are giants; see the girls in the foreground) So the last several years, after the success of showing a W.C. Fields movie, we've had a sort of "classics" slot. This year I showed one of my all time favorite adventure films, The Mark of Zorro with Tyrone Power, Basil Rathbone (doing the slimy…
Monster of the Day #3495

Monster of the Day #3495

Arguably the two most dangerous items in Sandy's video arsenal are the complete film sets he owns for H. G. Lewis and Al Adamson. This time it was Lewis' turn, as Sandy decided it was time to watch the film Lewis described as "My masterpiece." This is the vampire epic--at least in terms of…
Monster of the Day #3494

Monster of the Day #3494

So we kicked off the 15th edition of Tween-Fest with Sandy's choice of Daimajin, the first of three films built around a giant god statue who eventually comes to life to punish evil warlords. I haven't watched one of these in a while, and was pleased at how good of a general production it…
Monster of the Day #3493

Monster of the Day #3493

By the time we got organized, we didn't have much movie watching time on Friday, April 5th. The evening was devoted to a bunch of us taking GalaxyJane to The Bavarian Grill for her (slightly early) birthday. For the record, I abandoned my original order when I saw they had giant soft pretzels available.…
Monster of the Day #3492

Monster of the Day #3492

So I arrived at Dallas on April 4th, two days before the 15th (!) Tween-Fest. After dinner, Sandy showed Willy's Wonderland, one of several films ripping off the Five Night at Freddy's game made before that was officially turned into a movie itself (and made a ton of money). I'm not the world's biggest…

Sad News: Amazon drops Watch Party service….

They did it quietly, too, I had to search around a bit before I found confirmation that it was gone. It's too bad, because we've had a lot of fun with the feature and it was a good way to hang out virtually. We'll look about for another alternate service, although tech stuff is…
Monster of the Day #3491

Monster of the Day #3491

Not sure I'll be checking in again before the trip, I'm definitely in getting ready mode. I'll see many of you in a few days. For the rest, have a great week and a better weekend. Watch something stupid.