Monster of the Day

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (as featured on these very pages) premieres on the Cult Cinema Channel tonight, on YouTube. I don't know that there's a good copy of this film left, but it's probably watchable. It's one of a couple of films that Roger Corman had Frankensteined from the really spectacular special effects…

Nothing makes me lament where Hollywood in general right now than the fact that we can't go see double bills of movies like Killer Shrews and Giant Gila Monster in theaters/drive-ins anyway. Anyway, GGM is a perfect little piffle and it's now up on the Cult Cinema Classics on YouTube.

Here's one that never got around much. It's the 1920 silent version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring John Barrymore. It was quickly overshadowed by the famous Fredric March version and then the more opulent Spencer Tracy remake. You can watch it on the Cult Cinema Classics on YouTube.

Ugh, sure didn't feel like a long weekend (I appreciated the day off, nonetheless). Back to work now, and yes, I do realize that given current day events that is NOT something to complain about. The Cult Movies Channel on YouTube feels to be adding more TV movies now, which I am in favor…

I have to troll a bit deeper to find monster movies on YouTube these days, I didn't get to it yesterday. So let's pop over to Amazon Prime. They recently added Dogora the Space Monster, certainly one of the more obscure Toho dai kaiju films. As a kid it was pretty disappointing for its…

It took the combined efforts of Irwin Yablans and Charles Band, and featuring Demi Moore in her first major role, Parasite (aka The Other Parasite) features little beasties threatening survivors in the post-apocalypse. So, yeah, it's kind of '80s. Oh, and it was made in 3-D, because of course it was. I've never actually…

The Cult Movie Classics channel on YouTube has posted the original and still best version of the oft-filmed Phantom of the Opera, that movie that cemented Lon Chaney's status as cinema's first great horror star. Unless you're allergic to silent film, you could do far worse this long holiday weekend for a watch.

For a while it seemed like the Cult Classics Movie channel on YouTube had run out of 'new' schlock horror and sci-fi movies to post. They still had an impressive backlog, but weren't able to add to it. Now they seemed to be adding at least a few more titles, and good for them.…

After posting yesterday's MotD, How to Make a Monster, I discovered that Amazon Prime has a really nice print of the same movie available. As I've mentioned before, Prime has really upped their selection of grade A (and Z) schlock. If you're a subscriber, you could certainly spend a worse hour and a half…

If you have an hour and change this weekend, you could many worse ways to spend it then watching AIP's enjoyable meta How To Make a Monster.  The cameos at the end of the film are fantastic, although ultimately horrifying, considering how things end. Free to watch on YouTube. UPDATE: Although YouTube does have…