Monster of the Day

I mean, c'mon. Who wouldn't buy that? It is a little familiar looking, though.  

  Really, that's the Kong you crib? Oh, El Santo.

  Hmm, I swear this reminds me of something.... Sorry! I had taken an extra day off and just never got to my computer. Anyway, we're back. As a reminder, a double-day T-Fest (since we skipped the spring fest) will be held on Friday October 2nd and Saturday the 3rd. It'll be here before…

First, sorry, Rock. No dub for this one. K. Gordon Murray brought many Mexican horror movies north of the border, but this wasn't one of them. Maybe because the heroine looks like this: ...and it was suspected DC Comics' lawyer might possibly get involved. Now, of course, you can make flat out porn "parodies"…

There's are a myriad of hidden gems on YouTube. Yesterday I came across a channel, Horrorwitz, that has posted an ongoing (?) series of 15 minutes videos documenting the history of Mexican Vampire Cinema (that's the search term). How cool is that?

Sometimes (a lot of the time), you just want something...goofy. And nobody does goofy horror like Mexico back in the '60s. There's a somewhat washed-out copy of World of the Vampires on YouTube, and it's exactly what you think it is, but maybe even goofier than most Mexican vampire films. Also, it features one…

Rather a change from yesterday, we have Bert I Gordon's best movie, for what that's worth. It's definitely kiddie fare, but it's a fun bit of sword and sorcery, and Gordon definitely isn't afraid of the monsters. The best is this gorgeous giant dragon prop. It doesn't move very well, but damn. It's available…

See that rubber sock puppet over to the left? That's one of the 'alien' monsters in Alien 2 On Earth, a (shocker!) Italian film trying to ride the coattails of a popular American blockbuster. I'll let you piece out which one. It's one of a zillion monster in a cave movies. There's a print…

"Ear...BUD! I said I wanted an Ear BUD, you moron!" Looking for a double bill partner this weekend for the just previously featured Squirm? Try William Castle's utterly nutzoid Bug. Both are available on Amazon Prime.

I assume the portmanteau movies must have started losing juice for Amicus, but in any case they tried to move to more traditional single story pictures. This is And Now the Screaming Starts, a pretty nasty ghost story if I remember correctly. Typical Amicus cast, though; Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Ian Ogilvy,…