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Wow, the original wasn't made until 1993? Anyway, let's look at the brilliant redoes of the classic horror movies of the 70s on!

Apparently this what that woman calls "Tuesday." Have a great long weekend, everyone!

Yeah, that would be bad. Quick, call Kona!

Ah, killer plants. Now that I think about it, when did movies stop featuring random killer plants. Cinema sucks now. (Except for The Avenger and John Wick and Godzilla.)

I woke up and realized I had nothing planned, so...pulp covers! Can't go wrong with pulp covers. Man, the number of times I saw that look on women's faces.

I won't make this purely about anime, an obsession I'm trying not to inflict on people (except in one woeful case where, like a vampire, I was invited in). However, I can see some of you guys liking the currently running show Dororo. It's basically a dark fantasy with samurai-esque swordplay and demons. The…

So on Sunday we watched a lot of misc stuff, including (apparently we hadn't had enough Dolph Lundgren sci-fi on Saturday) Masters of the Universe. There are several monster guys, but towering about them is Frank Langella as Skeletor. His acting here is my go to example of a performance that transcends to an…

We always end the spring fest with a film made in Texas, and this Houston-filmed sci-fi action flick sure fit the bill. It's pretty fun, like a dumber The Hidden, although the core motive of the murderous alien is quite nifty.

The penultimate film at the Fest was the second Blind Dead movie. This four film series is interesting in that each film is discrete unto itself and rewrites the 'rules' of the Dead. So you never know where things are going to go from movie to movie. And the Blind Dead are a pretty…

After shorts and the quiz (a very good TV & movies spaceship test by Chad R., the first one I ever won, albeit by only one point) and dinner, we returned and started up Lake of Dracula. This was the first of three Toho vampire movies clearly inspired by Hammer's films. Although rare, all…