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The second film in the Daiei Gothic set is The Snow Woman (1968). Snow Woman go back a way in Japanese folk lore, and pop up in other media like manga and anime. Interviews with Monster Girls for instance. Any man who meets them risks being mesmerized and then frozen solid. I think I'll…

With companies scrambling to release nearly all of the hundreds of Shaw Bros. kung fu movies--Shout Factory is releasing it's fifth such set, Arrow it's third, etc.--they are starting to hit other Asian movie niches. It's a great time to be a B-movie geek. Shout Factory has released sets of erotic scf-fi and ghosts,…

Re: last Friday's watch party. I don't know if it's my computer or Kast or using Edge as my browser (which I do only for that, since Kast requires it), but I was having real issues getting the long movie I blathered on about all week. Finally, with the window for starting a long…

I've noted many times--including yesterday--that I have never derived much satisfaction from the many many Ultramans or the many many Ultraman knock-off shows. HOWEVER...I saw a long YouTube video on how the looniest Ultraman series was Ultraman Ace, which happily is all on YouTube. Seeing clips, I watched the second to last (of 52!)…

Father Time. The one monster who *always* wins. Still enough time for a Watch Party this week, though. (I mean, probably.) 7:45 CST this week.

  By now a lot of the grandkiddies were around, so we watched Goro and Goro, probably the most kid friendly episode of Ultra Q (and they're basically all kid friendly). This is the one about the friendship between a mentally challenged guy and a giant monkey, which was created in two minutes by…

Last day of T-Fest 20. I stayed an extra day for more hang-out time. Chad R played another "Sirk Before He was Sirk" movie, Sign of the Pagan (1954). It's a regilious epic about Rome vs Genghis Khan. Jeff Chandler is the nominal lead as the head Roman, but he's stiff as a board…

Since we had watched a really good portmanteau movie, Tales of Terror, earlier that day,  I suggested we end the da watching the most charmingly bad one I knew, Gallery of Horror (1967). This ultra cheapie has the requisite star appearances--John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr.--but is basically like five of the laziest attempt at…