Monster of the Day #1177
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Monster of the Day #1177

The best of the Hammer Frankensteins, I think, although I'm not a huge fan of the series. (Peter Cushing aside, obviously.) The central conceit of this one was recycled for the TV movie Frankenstein: The True Story. The film also features a wryly humorous ending, which is as far as I remember never referred…
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Our Man Flint: Dead On Target (1976)
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Our Man Flint: Dead On Target (1976)

[aesop_image imgwidth="800px" img="http://jabootu.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/1Evo3Zm.png" align="center" lightbox="on" caption="DEAD ON ARRIVAL would have been a far more apt title." captionposition="center"] I was really unprepared for how lousy this was. Not only as a purported sequel to the two James Coburn films of the 1960s. No, I mean just how bad it is technically. I had known there…
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Monster of the Day #1176
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Monster of the Day #1176

This seems a rather logical follow-up to our recent Alternate Dracula week, while also affording us another opportunity to fete Sir Christopher.
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Monster of the Day #1175
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Monster of the Day #1175

Scientist in Movie: "It's almost exactly like our planet's Tyrannosaurus Rex!" Joel, disgusted: "No its not." Don't ask me why, that's one of my favorite MST3K lines ever. Along with "Oh, so it's just a regularcat."
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Monster of the Day #1169
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Monster of the Day #1169

This really should have been yesterday's, as this foreign version was made in 1953, five years before Return of Dracula. Like Mexican vampire films made 15 years later, this movie was *cough* heavily influenced by the Universal Dracula films. However, it might be the first film to show a vampire with fangs; indeed, the…
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