Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension

Well, if you've got to go.....

The Japanese poster departments of the time seemed to think, "If the movie's for kids, make the poster look like it was designed by eight-year olds. Composition, bah!" I guess Space Gyaos was being reserved as a surprise, though? Not a bad idea, really. If the above didn't get you to buy a ticket,…

Space Gyaos and Guiron are great (and the brain-eating space ladies, of course), but the film wouldn't work as well as it does without Gamera being at the top of his game. Yes, it's the goofy Gamera, who does Gymkata at one point on a convenient crossbar. However, the Gamera movies, even the comparatively…

I always have thought simple designs are the most popular. Gyaos is basically a bat-like pterodactyl (with the bat features presumably meant to set him apart from Rodan), and I think the second most popular Gamera foe is Guiron, basically a reptilian dog with a giant knife head. Even his range weapon, boomerang shuriken,…

So we watched Gamera vs Guiron for the Watch Party, which was clearly a slam dunk. It was the Japanese language version, which isn't any issue for me, but also in widescreen and with a beautiful print. Anyway, even if you prefer the English tracks for kajiu movies, what you want is the ones…

Looking for a quick, super cheapie '50s monster flick on Amazon Prime? Well, there's Man Beast. And hey, it's only 67 minutes. On the other hand, it's 67 Jerry Warren minutes. Amazon Watch Party tonight! Hope you can make it.

Bill Jackson passed away the other day at the age of 86. That will be of import almost entirely to Chicago natives of a certain age--my age, to be exact. Back in the day, because of the powerhouse WGN--arguably the most influential independent TV station in the country back in the '60s and early…

By the '50s gorillas-as-monsters were in decline. Luckily, there was just enough time for Ed Wood Jr to write a script for one, Bride of the Beast. And why yes, that is an angora sweater. On Amazon Prime.

  Aside from the pretty good Dan Curtis / Jack Palance Dracula telemovie, there was the 1977 BBC production, Count Dracula, starring Louis Jourdan. It's comparatively faithful to the novel, but obviously short on special effects, and has a stately pace, as it last two and a half hours. Jourdan might be a bit…