Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension

Oddly, it took A&C five years and a dozen more movies to meet another real monster (the Invisible Man they met was innocent of the murder he was accused of). However, Karloff did appear, so that's nice.

Yes, I'm alive! Obviously I took a Thanksgiving break last week even from my computer. Then Sunday night we had a big storm. Lots of snow and a bit cold, but nothing ground breaking. Heavy winds, though, which must have done a number on power lines. I woke up Monday with the power out,…

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein revitalized the team's career. They quickly meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (a fun murder comedy) and then the Invisible Man, albeit not the Vincent Price version who cameoed in Meet Frankenstein. The poster makes the film look much more gothic horror than it is, it's more of an Abbot…

As some of you may have noticed, the site went down last week due to hosting issues. Mucho thanks, as always, to FoJ Carina Magyar to riding the rescue AGAIN. Endlessly, really. Before we were so rudely interrupted, we were looking at the spooky comedies of Abbott & Costello. This was their biggest film,…

The was only the duo's fourth film, made during their early box office peak. While they also made a few very fun comic murder mysteries (A&C Meet the Killer Boris Karloff and 1942's Who Done It?), it was in 1948 when their screen career was skidding that they made, of course, A&C Meet Frankenstein,…

This was made over a decade after Spooks on the Loose, and the 'boys' were showing their age. Still, that poster would have gotten my quarter back in the day.

A spin-off from the serious social drama Dead End, the East Side Kids lead by Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey, appeared in half a dozen other major films, including Angels with Dirty Faces with Cagney and Bogart and the John Garfield starrer They Made Me a Fugitive. Universal had a competing group called the…

At least she doesn't have haunts in her pants.

Spin-offs have been happening for a long time. Harold Gildersleeve was a character on the radio show Fibber McGee and Molly (the one with the avalanche-prone closet) who got his own radio show, and then a short series of filler B-movies. As was often the case with this sort of skein, one of the…

A few years ago at B-Fest, in the middle of the night we were weirdly confronted with the Mickey Rooney picture Andy Hardy's Private Secretary. GalaxyJane and I exchanged puzzled looks, but both opined it would at least probably only run about an hour. Sadly, we were incorrect. This was the longest chapter of…