Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension

I mentioned Leviathan yesterday, but again, I really get much out of it. It was a turgid remake of The Thing, I thought. Still, this was the last great era for practical monsters. Look at that rig! Notice both the ending of this and of DeepStar Six involve the monster reaching the surface. It…

I was very excited at the time. I've always loved sea movies, and obviously particularly loved sea monster movies. Godzilla is great, always, but when he comes up out of the water...c'mon. So I was excited in the '80s when they announced a whole run of rival sea monster movies. The Abyss, Leviathan (a…

If seek revenge you should dig two graves. Or, in this case, a lot more than that. The central idea stands, though, as the seeking of revenge, no matter how justified, leads to damnation. One of the last iconic monsters, practical, of course, and design and built by (if I'm remembering correctly) Stan Winston…

Remember fun kid's horror movies? The '80s was chockablock with them. I saw The Gate in the theater, and I remember it being pretty fun, mixing a bunch of campy tropes like demonic black metal albums. Also, if I remember correctly, these little demon guys were stop animated. Just fun. Make movies fun again.

I know I saw Strange Invaders (1983) back in the day, but I can't remember much at all about it. Clearly generic aliens (on purpose, I'm assuming) that call to the mind the rather more memorable Buckaroo Bonzai. That said, I think SI had a rep as an affectionate throwback to '50s sci-fi invasion…

Probably a movie that gets mixed up a lot with The Unnameable is The Unholy, but a priest (Ben Cross of Chariots of Fire and the Dark Shadows reboot) confronting a sexy demon. It was the '80s, man, they were all sexy. What a cast, though! Cross, Ned Beatty, Hal Holbrook...

Roger Corman (strictly a producer by then) was not afraid to follow trends. In fact, he insisted upon it. So Humanoids of the Deep contained copious gore and nudity and an entire plot built around monsters raping women, who then were ripped apart from the inside during, er, monster birth. (Wonder where they got…

I haven't seen everything, of course, but I feel I've seen a solid majority of all English language horror movies made prior to, oh, 1980. Then the video age came about and I gave up even trying. So I haven't seen a lot of the 80s stuff (plus it was the age of gore,…

Sorry, computer issues plus getting up a bit late, so no MotD yesterday. Friday's Watch Party was sparsely attended. I hope it's because people were busy for holiday stuff (like Gamera) but I know the problems we've had with Kast (since Amazon dropped their Watch Party feature) have chased people off. Or maybe it's…