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Star Pilot Blu Ray half off at Amazon…

The film we watched last Friday for the Watch Party as Star Pilot, aka 2+5 Mission Hydra, a wonderfully goofy Italian sci-fi epic. There's a newish Blu Ray of it out, and Amazon has it discounted from $30 to $15, a rather reasonable price. One buyer on Amazon calls the image quality "stunning." Just…
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Not (?) Monster of the Day #24
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Not (?) Monster of the Day #24

It was getting late, and most people headed out, marking the near end of T(ween) Fest 2025 weekend. However, Sandy was up for one more movie, so I popped in my recently procured Blu Ray for 1930's The Bat Whispers. Sandy later admitted he was a bit unenthusiastic about the choice. These old dark…
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Not Monster of the Day #23
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Not Monster of the Day #23

Time for a classic. I provided The Enemy Below, a nifty WWII naval film about a cat and mouse battle between an American destroyer and a German U-Boat. The cast is great, with Robert Mitchum as the American captain and Curt Jurgens as his German counterpart. Both are very savvy fighters and the film…
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Not Monster of the Day #22
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Not Monster of the Day #22

What Waits Below (1984). I'm not sure I'd even heard of this one. On the other hand, it has one of those generic titles that refuses to fix a movie in your mind. Basically, it's an American update of one of those Amicus "lost civilization" movies that they ground out after Land that Time…
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Monster of the Day #3702
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Monster of the Day #3702

Look, obscurities like Cyborg Cop II are fine. It's fun to find new (to us) weird, often foreign, movies to share. But sometimes, you should remember to dance with the girl that brought you. I can't remember if it was because some of the kids were in attendance, but we decided to watch Ebirah…
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Not Monster of the Day #20
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Not Monster of the Day #20

If Michael Flatley's Blackbird was sadly boring, the day was saved by the anti-boredom Ölüm Savaşçısı (1984). The guys behind Turkish Star Wars made this rogue cop film, including the star of Turkish Star Wars, that Tim Thomerson-looking guy. Here he plays basically Dirty Harry if he were brundleflied with Rambo. Now, to be…
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Not (?) Monster of the Day #19
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Not (?) Monster of the Day #19

If there's anything Bad Drama fans like, it's a vanity film. They are nearly uniformly driven by the ego of the person behind them, and then they tend to be weird and horrible. Chad R and I are the two big Bad Drama guys in our crowd, and for years we'd been looking for…
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