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Ugh, Never write these in a hurry right before leaving for work. Fight for Survival, mentioned in the last MotD, did kick up Sunday, But then I skipped columns and went right to Monday, including our last MotD feature Bloodbath at the House of Death. Anyway, after Fight for Survival was the German 1943…

Sunday was quite a smorgasbord. We started with Chinese martial arts film Fight for Survival (1977), moved on to the extremely meta Thai western / tragic romance film Tears of the Black Tiger (2000), and then I showed a weirdly obscure comic horror movie Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984), It's hit and…

We got back from dinner pretty late, and only watched a couple of films before wrapping things up. Sandy provided the first one, the Czech horror / fantasy anthology Prague Nights (1969). It was stylish and laden with folklore and nudity. My favorite chapter involved a golem. I think it's on Tubi or one…

Greeeeeen Acres is the place to be!1964's Monster of the Opera. This one was on me. I watched the first ten minutes, and it was a delirious delight. Sadly, I stopped watching right before it got boring, the normal Italian format of endless dance numbers and people slooooowly walking through hallways / tunnels with…

We opened the films with the Shaw Brothers classic Come Drink with Me. Then Sandy showed the quite wacky silent film Seven Footprints to Satan (1929). Next was Jabootu subject Orca. The photo here is misleading, though. The real monster is...Man.

And so the Fest officially started. Mike H was hot to trot to show a Kamen Rider episode, and we soon saw why. The villain that week was Starfish-Hitler, and as you can see, it's exactly what you think. Gobsmacking.

It's undoubtedly a sign of imminent senility, but each Fest it's more likely that, when perusing the absolutely essential roster of What We Watched assembled by Chad R., that I see a title or two and think, "What the hell is that?" This year it was The Dead Don't Talk, and it took several…

OK, so I flew into Dallas -- no flight delays, yay! -- and got picked up at DFW by Chad R. He took me to LJS for dinner (postponed from my previous trip when my flight was delayed 11 hours) and then we headed to Chez Petersen. As noted before, Sandy and Wendy have…

Or at least it's playing at 4:00 PM all week at my local AMC theater. I already have my ticket for Friday. Even better, as it's playing under their "fan faves" banner, the ticket was half the price of a regular ticket. Sweet. Anyway, here's your chance to see the film again--or for the…