Monster of the Day

Another really '70s kind of deal was the Amicus anthology films, which themselves always featured fabulous casts. Asylum is one of the lesser ones, but it's still pretty good. If one story isn't that great, wait 15 minutes and you'll get another, generally better one.

Featuring Devil's Rain yesterday (and really, that film does have an *amazing* cast) put me in a '70s frame of mind, so how about Squirm, a fun killer worm (!) flick also available on Amazon Prime. Or you can probably dig up the MST3K episode on YouTube or Netflix maybe.

GalaxyJane mentioned she'd recently watched The Devil's Rain, and it's on Amazon Prime, so why not? She thought it was a bit pokey at times despite it's short running time, but liked the amazing cast. (Of course, you have to be of a certain age to go, "Oooh, Eddie Albert!") She also mentioned Ernest…

Hmm, reminds me of something.... Appearing on Amazon Prime under the title Reigo King of the Sea Monsters (!!!--uh, Godzilla is a sea monster, moron), the film isn't great, but hey we're all completists and if you have Amazon Prime it's sitting right there, so there you go.  

Amazon Prime right now has an eye-poppingly good transfer of Caltiki the Immortal Monster right now. I think it's sourced from the Arrow Video Blu Ray, which has a ton of extras, including a commentary by lead Bava scholar Tim Lucas  (and a second, DVD copy) if you like the movie enough to invest…

Few films are as consistently wacky as Super Infra-Man (available on Amazon Prime), but one of them is Latitude Zero. It maybe drags a bit at time, but man, it is nutty. Also available on Prime.

There was a period when I was looking around at all my thousands of DVDs (and smattering of Blu Rays) and would think, "Man, if I had known streaming was coming, I could have saved a lot of money." But again I am brought face to face with the fact that stuff on streaming…

FoJ Gamera977 suggests the following: "I'm not sure this is usable but it's the title character of Lien Ni-Chang or 'The Bride With White Hair' as played by the beautiful Brigitte Lin from the 1993 Hong Kong wuxia film of the same name. In the first film she's a sympathetic villainess. In the second she's…

Amazingly, all the other cheapies I've showcased this week had theatrical releases back in the day, many of them highly profitable ones. (Partly because the films were so cheaply made.) However, there was also the even cheaper direct to video slashers that were even grainier and somehow often even dumber. Take Fred Olen Ray's…

So....Madman. Uh, it's a slasher. Guy in the woods, he, uh, kills 'teens', and uh....   On YouTube.