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In honor of Godzilla Day yesterday, Toho posted on the Godzilla Channel on YouTube a new short, Godzilla vs Gigan Rex. It's very fun, and it's always thrilling to hear Ifukube's music. It's also got a great neato Godzilla design. They quickly pulled down the Godzilla vs Hedorah short earlier this year, so watch…

Ah, Coffin Joe. Sort of Brazil's Paul Naschy, José Mojica Marins also ran into censorship issues--especially due to his disdain for the Catholic Church--but his movies are really weird and personal and quite fun. Coffin Joe has a lot of political and philosophical issues, and they are fully on display in the series. These…

I didn't get around to my Island of Terror Blu Ray this last weekend--I wanted a Cushing film--but I just saw the remarkably accurate poster art and decided to post it. I don't know which country provided this, although the German poster is just a blonde with big naked boobs and a sort of…

The second movie we watched Friday was Exorcist II: The Heretic. It's as goofy as a film as you'd expect from the guy who directed Zardoz. What were they thinking? About an hour in I realized it might actually be dumber than Return of the Ape Man. Burton is fully in his awful period,…

So we resumed my little friend group's Halloween Party this year. We usually show something (by my standards) old school to start, so I picked Return of the Ape Man. It's the perfect bit of poverty row nonsense, with this one classic image of Bela in a tux walking around the *cough* city streets…

Halloween is Monday, so have a great Halloween weekend. This week watching something stupid is optional. Watch something spooky. Have a great weekend, everyone. Watch Party next Friday.

So my friend Matt couldn't get the rights to show Dr. Phibes (although he could have shown the sequel??) at the Pickwick last night. So he showed House of Wax in 2-D, Vincent Price's first horror movie. It's very fun and Price is great and it costars Lois Lane and Morticia Addams and Charles…

Speaking of Japanese Otaku cinema being shown in theaters by Fathom Events next week (see yesterday's MotD), they will also close this year's series of Ghibli screenings by featuring what is pretty much universally considered their greatest film--which is saying something. Spirted Away will be shown both in dubbed versions (ick) on Sunday and…

Wow, this is next week already. November 3rd (a week from Thursday) is apparently Godzilla Day, and so Fathom Events for that night only will be showing the Millenium Godzilla movie Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla. A Chance to see a Godzilla film in a theater! Should be playing in a theater at least sorta near…