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Discord Watch Party update & Volunteer request….

OK, so as noted, we're going to Discord. Now, because a Watch Together (as they call it) is but one of a million things Discord does, it's insanely complicated, at least to a tech doofus like me. So far, I've been unable to figure out how to run an Amazon Prime move on it.…
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Monster of the Day #3677
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Monster of the Day #3677

After surviving my second, and hopefully final, viewing of Devil Story (available on Blu Ray on Amazon for a bargain price of $35), we moved on to one of my picks, Matilda. Not the Danny Devito film from the 90s, but the boxing kangeroo film from 1978, with big stars like Elliot Gould and…
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Monster of the Day #3676
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Monster of the Day #3676

So I wasn't expected to speed run through B-Fest 2025, but hey, few monsters. So on to Basement Fest 2025. Joe Bannerman, erstwhile B-Master and proprietor of Opposable Thumbs Films, hates us all deeply. Since we won't let him show Things ever year (and he would), he picked Devil Story, a movie Chad R…
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Monster of the Day #3675
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Monster of the Day #3675

Wow, about half way through and we ran dry of monsters until the final film. After Night of the Comet: If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? Ron Ormond is a fascinating figure. In the 50s he made from (at the time) notably sleazy films that presumably played in the Pussycat circuit. Then…
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Monster of the Day #3673
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Monster of the Day #3673

The third film was my favorite this year, Shack Out on 101. It's set in a seedy diner and is a '50s anti-Commie espionage film. I've heard about this for years, and actually bought it on DVD a while ago, but hadn't gotten around to watching it. It is...weird. Like all of the sudden…
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Monster of the Day #3672
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Monster of the Day #3672

OK, so B-Fest 2025. We had a small group; it was me and Chad R. To my delight, though, Andrew Borntreger of Badmovies.Org, who I must not have seen for 20 years (man, I'm old), attended with his friend Todd, who was an absolutely terrific guy with a great sense of humor. So that…
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Monster of the Day #3671
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Monster of the Day #3671

"Also...hey, wait? Are you guys DEAD?! I think you are!! And I'm a doctor, so I should know!!!" Seriously, though, I love these covers.
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Monster of the Day #3670
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Monster of the Day #3670

See, the car has no mandatory rear camera. Man, the editor of this book knew what he was doing. This book probably would have run for years if not for the creation of the Comic Code. Stupid Comics Code.
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Monster of the Day #3669
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Monster of the Day #3669

Friday's Watch Party was 1974's The land that Time Forgot (although Amazon has it under The People that Time Forgot!), a film I saw as a ten year old at the Pickwick theater. Still love it, and it really holds up. Great Boy's Adventure film, up there with 1961's Mysterious Island. The dinosaurs are…
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Monster of the Day #3668
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Monster of the Day #3668

Ghost Rider, pick on people your own size. You're kind of being a dick. Watch Party tonight! Wheeee! I saw Nosferatu yesterday, luckily before it left theater. I would have used that as MotD, but stills of Bill Skarsgard's Orlock are still not circulating on the Interwebs, which is pretty amazing. There are misdirect…
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