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For the "Monster Kid" generation, raised on Famous Monsters of Filmland and watching (or trying to watch) scratchy, edited prints of old monster movies our on teeny black and white sets, desperately manipulating the rabbit ears to get the signal to stop dropping out, few things were more iconic than the Aurora monster model…

I just notice this was on Amazon Prime. (Actually, Prime has a fairly nice selection of Price films.) I don't think I've ever seen this. It I did, it was a looong time ago and I don't remember it. Obviously meant to evoke Corman's Poe films, especially the anthology Tales of Terror. I think…

I am very excited. I have been waiting for American release dates for the anime film Demon Slayer: Mugen Train for quite a while now. It's finally set to hit theaters starting April 23rd. I'm kind of hoping that it will get a regular release, although anime films tend to play two to four…

We haven't checked out Amazon Prime for a while. They now feature Voodoo Woman, another AIP movie that again cannibalizes Paul Blaisdell's suite from The She-Creature. Man, that thing got a lot of use.

So...Disney now owns the Alien franchise (and Predator) because they bought Fox. And apparently they've now declared that Alien will be there next "mega-franchise." This is mostly to pump Disney + I guess, so mostly TV shows? Anyway, for Pete's sake, make something new. Except they can't. Of course their record with pre-existing properties…

Well, I had one more of these, so I might as well use it. Is that guy with the crossed sketched over Kolchak in The Night Stalker movie?  And what's with the bikini and stockings combo?

  Ooh, Italy.* [*Months ago I was watching an episode of some random anime...I know, what are the odds. I think it was Strikes Witches. Aliens (I think) were threatening Earth, and the only weapon against them was, well, strike witches. To wit, lolis (of course) who take off like fighter planes from aircraft…

Wait for it...wait for it..... "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" Ah, that's the stuff.