Monster of the Day #791
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Monster of the Day #791

Boy, you never find out until after the wedding! Am I right, gentlemen? Worse, she immediately put on like 20 pounds.
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RIP Ed Lauter
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RIP Ed Lauter

  Wow, bad news. One of the great character actors of the '80s and '90s, Mr. Lauter specialized in playing dickwad cops and other assorted douches. He's perhaps best remembered on these pages for his supporting role in the seminal Jabootu classic Death Wish III. Mr. Lauter's first role, fittingly, was as a police…
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Reminder: T-Fest Weekend starts 3 weeks from today!

Actually, it kinda starts Thursday night (Halloween, no less), when you can come join me and Patty and Kirk for dinner in Houston if you like. Contact me at ken@jabootu.com for details. Dinner will be at the Hickory Hollow, or as I will be calling it all night, Hickory HollowEEN. Get it? Friday night…
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Monster of the Day #786
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Monster of the Day #786

Well, no surprise here, as several people had predicted it. Still, it's the Grandfather of Japanese ghost movies. Easy to see where the ghost girl from Ringu originated, she's basically the daughter of this lady. This is on my Halloween watch list, courtesy of the fine folks from Criterion. Maybe a day watching this…
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Monster of the Day #784
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Monster of the Day #784

Monsters very seldom enter the cultural lexicon anymore; this might be the primary example of successfully doing so this century. And the American remake is a rare example of turning out a very good, discrete version of an Asian film. Aside from the fact that monsters just don't grab mass audiences the way they…
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