Rock Baker’s Video Cheese: Creature of the Walking Dead (1964)
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Rock Baker’s Video Cheese: Creature of the Walking Dead (1964)

"A doctor reanimates the corpse of his mad scientist grandfather, THEN figures out it was a bad idea!" Even for the dedicated genre movie fan like myself, Jerry Warren movies are often a challenge to watch, and few of them warrant repeat viewings. His actual 'movie' movies are better than his imports, although I…
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Monster of the Day #528
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Monster of the Day #528

This made less domestically than that awful remake of When a Stranger Calls, and that was following the Spider-Man movies. I don't get it.
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Tuesdays with Lorre: My Favorite Brunette (1947)
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Tuesdays with Lorre: My Favorite Brunette (1947)

[Note the highly misleading poster art. Hope never wears anything like he is pictured here, and Dorothy Lamour certainly never appears in a bathing suit. And I seriously have no friggin' idea what those other ladies are supposed to represent.] Bob Hope was, save for W. C. Fields, the greatest solo film comic of…
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Who Watches The Watch?

The opening paragraph of the Chicago Tribune review of this film mentions the awkwardness of releasing a film about a neighborhood watch following the Trayvon Martin shooting. "Timing is everything," Michael Phillips wrote. (He then ties in the Aurora shooting in the third paragraph. Review the film, ass. You're not a sociologist, you're a…
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Monster of the Day #525
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Monster of the Day #525

Is  this why I've always wanted a fez and smocking jacket?* Maybe. [*Seriously, I have. However, good smoking jackets cost way too much dough.]
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Rock Baker’s Video Cheese: The Deadly Mantis (1957)
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Rock Baker’s Video Cheese: The Deadly Mantis (1957)

"Universal International unleashes another mammoth insect upon 1950's America. Peter Gunn is on hand to handle the situation." The 1950's were, in almost every way, the zenith of American pop culture. You'd be hard pressed to find a time in which a better aesthetic and audible quality of entertainment existed. Certainly, monster movies were…
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