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"I swear, if one more guy asks if I'm friggin' Zontar...." After Monster on the Campus we watched the rather grisly pre-code horror film Murders in the Zoo. This features Lionel Atwill as a murderously jealous big game hunter. The film opens with a guy whose lips have been graphically sewn together, which must…

Yeti was our first and last monster movie on Sunday. The rest of the day we watched Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (Tod Slaughter's last film and a bit of a departure--it wasn't adapted from a stage play and he assayed a hooded supervillain type), which was quite fun. Then it was These…

I was asked if I had anything to start off the Sunday bonus movies. I had a fancy blu ray edition of the *cough* Canadian giant monster movie Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century, so we went with that. It stars one of the Bee Gees, although I'm not a big enough fan to…

So after Jaws the Revenge we showed a Tod Slaughter film. Because I messed up this was Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn (the actual full title), which is the mildest of Slaughter's handful of films. Of course, that's mild for a Slaughter film, so it was still pretty great. And I…

First things first, Friday's new Watch Party format, using Kast.gg, was a success. Kudos to GalaxyJane for helping me with a technical issue. The one downside is that since I'm sharing me screen, people can apparently actually see me typing my notes, which I'm very awkward at. So there goes my mystic as a…

(They are giants; see the girls in the foreground) So the last several years, after the success of showing a W.C. Fields movie, we've had a sort of "classics" slot. This year I showed one of my all time favorite adventure films, The Mark of Zorro with Tyrone Power, Basil Rathbone (doing the slimy…

Arguably the two most dangerous items in Sandy's video arsenal are the complete film sets he owns for H. G. Lewis and Al Adamson. This time it was Lewis' turn, as Sandy decided it was time to watch the film Lewis described as "My masterpiece." This is the vampire epic--at least in terms of…

So we kicked off the 15th edition of Tween-Fest with Sandy's choice of Daimajin, the first of three films built around a giant god statue who eventually comes to life to punish evil warlords. I haven't watched one of these in a while, and was pleased at how good of a general production it…

By the time we got organized, we didn't have much movie watching time on Friday, April 5th. The evening was devoted to a bunch of us taking GalaxyJane to The Bavarian Grill for her (slightly early) birthday. For the record, I abandoned my original order when I saw they had giant soft pretzels available.…

So I arrived at Dallas on April 4th, two days before the 15th (!) Tween-Fest. After dinner, Sandy showed Willy's Wonderland, one of several films ripping off the Five Night at Freddy's game made before that was officially turned into a movie itself (and made a ton of money). I'm not the world's biggest…