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After the quiz (I won the Steel Book edition of Ultra Q...thanks, Chad R!) we headed out to dinner. My favorite slide on the quiz, which was about movie aliens, was the electronic microscope slide of the virus from The Andromeda Strain. Of course, that might be because you love the delightfully obscure ones…

So we finished the day shift with our traditional TV/shorts/quiz slot. Sandy showed the first episode of Gerry Anderson's Stingray (above), while I showed the episode of Manimal where Simon MacCorklandale exhibiting some highly dubious kung fu skills. James Hong is there and is given nothing to do. The scene where MacCorklandale buffs his…

Well, back to reality. Sigh. So we started our make-up, double-length T-Fest with some unofficial showings on Thursday, Oct 1, several hours after I arrived in Dallas. Arthur, Sandy's son, had never seen Dracula vs Frankenstein. Sandy is the proud owner of Severin's massive sets of all 32 (!) Al Adamson, so we started…

Today's movie is Lamberto Bava's Demons, a film about a bunch of people getting together to watch movies and pass around an infection and the death and disaster that ensues. On an unconnected note, two days to T-Fest! (First day)

  One Wrong Turn, the epic tale of people who go on a trip that inevitably leads to death and disaster. Anyway, I hope I see many of you this weekend in Rockwall TX for our special two-day T-Fest, starting Friday.

As usual, where El Santo led others followed. I will say, I admire the effort this alligator man put into his look. A lot of people would have been like, 'What's the point?', but not this guy.

El Santo has boring days, too. On Tuesday he just sat around the house, ran errands, and fought a gorilla. Uh, at least I hope they're fighting.

Yikes! El Santo, the hombre who put the 'Man' in manicurist.

  Man, the artists behind these Santos comics were brilliants. How did they manage to design such a cool monster?