Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension

We went from Demon of Mount Oe to another foreign obscurity, 1950's Heart of Stone, made by the East German film company DEFA. In other words, it was supervised by the Communist Party, and thus is unsurprisingly not very favorable to Capitalism. On the other hand, they don't ram it down your throats, so…

We live in a glorious (if expensive!) age where a ton of obscurities and marvelous foreign fare is coming to Blu Ray via a plethora of boutique media companies. For instance, Radiance, a Brit company, has put out couple of (region free) Blu Ray sets in their--hopefully continuing--Daiei Gothic line. The second volume contained…

We ended things with our T-Rex movie, the venerable One Million B.C. (1940). Starring Victor Mature as a caveman, as seen on the right. There had been cavemen in movies before--Buster Keaton played one in 3 Ages--but this is the grandfather of the caveman movie, establishing all the plot tropes associated with that little…

After some tasty Texas BBQ for dinner, we started T-Fest. The evening slate began with She (1935). It's a bit of a classic and I'm sure many of you have seen it at some point. After that we watch Killbots, aka Chopping Mall. I know you've pretty much all seen this. (Although it was…

So last Friday's Watch Party subject was Vampire Moth, a 1956 black and white Japanese horror movie that was kind of a proto-giallo, especially in that it was quite hard to follow the plot. Even so, it was pretty great. The scenes were good enough that it kept your interest even after you gave…

Eureka has put out a very nice set of krimis, one of which was the daffy The Mad Executioners. They are a star chambers in *cough, cough* England who "try" and execute murders who have evaded the law. (When, presumably, not judging Baron Vitelius d'Estera.) They always steal the same historic executioner's rope from…

Sandy picked this weird Czech parody movie set at turn of the 20th century Prague. "Real" American old timey pulp detective Nick Carter is on the case of a missing dog. There's a mad scientist and a stop motion killer plant. It's...odd. It's at least 20 minutes too long, and it's got a vibe…

Friday then passed without any more monster action. Next we watched The Chapman Report, a 1962 social drama about four women who participate in a *gasp* Kinsey-esque sex survey. Jane Fonda is the frigid one, Shelley Winters is the wife stifled by her unsatisfying suburban life who has an affair (with sleazeball Ray Danton!),…

I live! (Although the ten inches of snow we got this weekend didn't help.)So I was in Dallas for T-Fest. I left on my birthday and my flight got delayed like 50 times, I got deplaned twice. I was supposed to leave at 12:30 and left at 8:00. So I lost a planned half…