Monster of the Day #3526
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Monster of the Day #3526

Roger Corman left the director's chair after the WWI aerial warfare flick Von Richthofen and Brown in 1971. Starting New World Pictures, he segued into producing full time, figuring he could make more money that way. The cliche in Hollywood is that everyone wants to direct. Well, Corman directed 50 plus films, and apparently…
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Monster of the Day #3525
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Monster of the Day #3525

As Corman's Poe series started to wane (if not artistically), his use of monsters was nearly over. Most of the Poe films didn't feature monsters per se. The Masque of Red Death, generally considered the best of the bunch, featured the ultimate monster: Death. The series ended next with the still pretty great The…
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Monster of the Day #3524
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Monster of the Day #3524

1963. Roger Corman, despite working on (comparatively) bigger movies, still directed five films that year. Only one (The Young Racers) wasn't a horror film, The Raven, The Terror, The Man With the X-Ray Eyes and The Haunted Palace. None except the last really featured a monster per se. The Haunted Palace was sold as…
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Monster of the Day Postponed….

Sorry, the editing function at Imgur has been messed up the last couple of days. After spending ten minutes the trying to get the still the right size I now have to leave for work. Back this afternoon or tomorrow morning. Have a great day, folks!
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Monster of the Day #3523
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Monster of the Day #3523

Sorry, I brainfarted on doing this yesterday. So I had another movie lined up for the Watch Party. However, it was on Amazon Prime (which we did on Kast before) and either I had glitch issues or they changed it so you can't so Prime movies anymore. So less than 15 minutes before show…
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I hate movie trailers….

So I went on a very impromptu way to see a movie this morning. I won’t bore you, but it turned out there was an anime film playing that I was only vaguely aware of but got an email announcement for this morning. So I went to see it. I will say this...IT WAS…
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Godzilla Minus One now on Netflix / Dumb Disney

Netflix has added Godzilla Minus One, so it's available worldwide (except in Japan) for anyone who wants to watch / rewatch it. Godzilla Minus One Minus Color--the superior version, I think--will be added later this summer. Disney, which is on a real role lately, has destroyed all their franchises they spent billions acquiring, including…
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Monster of the Day #3522
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Monster of the Day #3522

Corman obviously slowed down a bit once he started making his Poe films, although 'slow down' is relative in his case. In 1962 he directed four films; the one Vincent Price-lacking Poe film (and unsurprisingly, the least popular) The Premature Burial, his famous racial drama The Intruder, famously remembered as the one film Corman…
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Monster of the Day #3521
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Monster of the Day #3521

Oops, posted this early. Consider it tomorrow's (the 30th) MotD. In 1959 Gene Corman, Roger's brother, produced a low budget monster movie called Beast of Haunted Cave. It was written by Corman's pal and regular coworker Charles B. Griffin. Two years later, in 1961 (yes, it's right, I used a calculator), Roger decided that…
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