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So we entered the home stretch. Host Paul, who's over the years shown a pleasing ability to offer up out of left field choices, picked the typically awful Hallmark romance Santa Tell Me. It's the kind of thing were Chad offered up a truly obvious ending for some side characters that apparently was too…

I clean forgot that between Bloodbeast and Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires I showed that atrocious (cough, cough) "Derek Flint" telemovie Dead on Target. I think it's the last thing I reviewed on the site. The years haven't been any kinder to it; it's terrible.After 7 Golden Vampires I showed The Pink Panther…

It was time for something more linear after the incomprehensible Bloodbeat, so the Rev provided the beloved Hammer / Shaw Brothers co-production The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires. This had vampires, Chinese vampires (not hopping ones, alas), boobs, tons of crazy kung fu and Peter Cushing in his last time playing Van Helsing.…

After Plan 9 B-Fest used to show what I called Brain Melters. Eight hours in and in the middle of the night, the audience's brains were pretty malleable and especially vulnerable to films that made no damn sense. Usually these are hippy-dippy movies, but this year I showed the super crazy slasher flick Bloodbeat…

The Plan 9 slot (Basement Fest basically follows the old B-Fest template, although B-Fest itself no longer does) this year was filled by the terrifically dumb King Dinosaur. This was a life-changer for young Sandy Petersen, since watching it revealed to him for the first time that a film could have all things he…

The second film was host Holly's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I'm not sure I'd seen that since it came out--I was kind of allergic of The Special Edition after they made that The Official Edition. We watched the Director's Cut, because it skips the awful see-inside-the-alien-ship/shopping mall climax. Say what you will,…

So the weekend after B-Fest we started Basement Fest, our private Fest we started when B-Fest was knocked out by Covid. We always start with Joe Bannerman's movie because he's a dick and always shows something really awful, like Things. This year's choice was 1981's The Pit, which I've never liked at all. Indeed,…