Monster of the Day #3452
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Monster of the Day #3452

Man, again, wonderful painting. Thanks to everyone who showed up for the watch party. We watched out Jabootu subject The Hell Squad, a particularly inept (but somehow lovable) '80s action flick. Thank you, Jennifer Lawrence! I said it during the show several times, but I'll say it again:  It was a thousand times more…
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Monster of the Day #3451
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Monster of the Day #3451

I remember this one! This was the Christmas novelette where The Spider saved Santa Claus after Pitch invaded his gold and crystal palace in outer space. The Devil's big mistake was interrupting The Spider and his girlfriend at their naughty time. Yay, Friday! Watch something stupid this weekend. I can help with that, actually.…
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Monster of the Day #3449
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Monster of the Day #3449

Back to pulp covers tomorrow. When I returned to work yesterday, I had forgotten that I had bought a ticket for last night to finally see Princess Mononoke. I had seen Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind a few months ago (allowing me to finally get a hilarious joke sequence in Bocchi the…
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Monster of the Day #3448
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Monster of the Day #3448

The Spider was a more homicidal The Shadow knock-off. It tended to feature a typical mix of madmen, gangsters, yellow perils and the like, which a fairly small number of more fantastic foes. However, there's always metaphors, and as we know, few things sell as well as cover art featuring skeletons. I like to…
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Please resend email addresses for Watch Parties

Hey, everyone. Our friend Jeff is in town, so I course I made him swap out my "new" computer that's been sitting on the floor for two years. Anyway, I have to reassemble the document with everyone's email addresses for watch parties, so please resend your appropriate email to ken@jabootu.com. Thanks!
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Monster of the Day #3447
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Monster of the Day #3447

SPOILER ALERT: Above image telegraphs the resolution of the film's extremely hard to predict romantic triangle. Unsurprisingly, all the best stop-animated monsters from the '50s came courtesy of Ray Harryhausen. (Well, and Willis O'Brien.) The rest of the movie is a snooze--you definitely doing something wrong when Kenneth Tobey can't elevate your film*--but man,…
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Monster of the Day #3446
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Monster of the Day #3446

OK, it's 1958. You're the typical 10 year old boy being dropped off at the Saturday matinee, so that your mom can have you out of her hair for three or four hours. You're a savvy vet already; you know the movies are never as good as the poster makes them work. Still, if…
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Monster of the Day #3445
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Monster of the Day #3445

Hmm. Serviceable, I guess, but kind of boring. Doesn't even really establish the giant scorpion thing. Not sure this would have gotten me in the cinema, sans a trailer or something. Luckily, we always have lurid, painted foreign poster art to properly exploit the monster and..... Huh.
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Monster of the Day #3444
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Monster of the Day #3444

Well, this one is of rather lower quality than Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, that's for sure. It's 90% oater, and 10% dinosaur. Still, if you hang in long enough, you get a pretty fun rampage from a dino with a Gene Simmons tongue. I give them credit for going stop-motion anyway, kind of a…
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