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I think this was the second A&C movie. Again, horror comedies were a popular gateway genre for movie acts. I think it was service comedy, this, and then another service comedy. Another, this is a fun film and serves as a dry run for several memorable routines later uses in A&C Meet Frankenstein.

Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve was a comically pompous (but loveable) supporting character on the Fibber McGee and Molly radio series--the show with the closet--who blew up and got spun off into his own radio series and even a small skein of B-movies. Inevitably, one of them was a (very mild) comic horror movie. Shockingly, this…

It's a little unfair to compare with a B cheapie like The Gorilla, but if you want a MUCH better Old Dark House comedy I'd suggest Bob Hope's Ghost Breakers or his Cat and the Canary remake.

So I started watching The Gorilla (1939) on Amazon Prime. It was indeed completely a knock-off of Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Bat, and Cat and the Canary, and just like Shh! The Octopus, and so on. A pretty standard Old Dark House movie with a killer in an animal suit who sends his victims…

I'm sure we could field half a dozen nominees just among ourselves. However, when I think of the most boring '50s or '50s-esque sci-fi film, the title that looms above the others is Woman Eater. What a snoozefest! Predictably, they ramped up the ballyhoo for this dull entry by putting out a poster that…

And there are movies that just OWN IT.

So while the Shrew and Gila Monster posters were clearly artistic choices--if odd ones--here the odd framing of the art really call attention to itself. It's mystifying, in fact. Unless you've seen the movie, and then you *completely* get it. Again, a great double bill with this is Kronos. It's really not that much…

I was ruminating yesterday on why the painted poster art for The Killer Shrews didn't exploit the actually kind of cool look (especially if artistically reinterpreted) of the shrews. I guess it makes more sense if you look at the poster art for the film made by the same producers to act as Shrew's…

Last Friday's Watch Party subject was The Killer Shrews, and needless to say it provided a very good time. I find the poster a little weird. Giant Claw, there's a movie where you understand why they kept the monster's face off the poster. Meanwhile, although the barely disguised nature of the shrews as dogs…