Monster of the Day #3046
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Monster of the Day #3046

Cult Cinema Classics has put up a fairly decent print of Attack of the Giant Leeches. The one caveat is that it has French subtitles burned on it. Well, you can't have everything. This is, after all, a film that generally looks pretty murky even when you can see it. It's almost like they…
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Monster of the Day #3045
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Monster of the Day #3045

Sandy Petersen, when he's bored beyond endurance (better than Holmes' cocaine, I suppose), will occasionally call me and we'll telewatch a dumb movie on Youtube or Amazon Prime. Last week we watched (not too diligently, as we were yakking the whole time) the obscure Space Probe Taurus, a film I only vaguely remembered having…
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Monster of the Day #3044
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Monster of the Day #3044

Historians have marked this as the first appearance of a Scottish Kaiju, as evidenced by his kilt and the fact that he's living in a cave, indicating he's cheap. (What? My ethnic joke book from 1972 says this is hilarious.) Have a great weekend, everyone.
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Monster of the Day #3043
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Monster of the Day #3043

Thursday! The weekend beckons. To me this looks like a dry run for the cocoon Adam Warlock (or 'Him,' originally) eventually came out of in Fantastic Four.
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Monster of the Day #3042
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Monster of the Day #3042

Hump day! I'm actually going to go visit my sister and niece this weekend, the first time I have done so since the COVID thing started. So that will be nice. We might even go out to eat, although only outside dining here in Illinois, and even that just started this week. Black Magic…
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Monster of the Day #3040
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Monster of the Day #3040

I'm a little annoyed by YouTube's new system of randomly inserting commercials into everything. I mean, really, you're two and a half minutes into a ten minute video and it stops for a commercial? Anyway, I came across this. Apparently Black Magic was a horror comic published by Prize Comics in the '50s (after…
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Monster of the Day #3039
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Monster of the Day #3039

Here's a good one for the weekend. Alligator was written by John Sayles (hence the sly sense of humor and great characterization) and starred fan favorite Robert Forster. This is certainly one of the better Jaws knock-offs, probably rivaled only by Joe Dante's Piranha. Available for viewing on YouTube (although their new commercial break…
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Monster of the Day #3038
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Monster of the Day #3038

I mentioned when Mausoleum was a recent MotD that the '80s saw a run of supernatural-based horror movies where demons or possessed people or whatnot had basically unlimited powers and used them to kill people in vary splattery ways. Kind of like The Omen, only with a lot more glowing green eyes and cheese.…
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Monster of the Day #3037
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Monster of the Day #3037

How about some '80s schlock? And nobody does '80s schlock like the Italians. They made a whole industry out of knocking off a small handful of American and Australian genre films (mostly Alien, Terminator, Road Warrior and Escape from New York). This is an Alien rip-off, and it's dumb, gory and a lot of…
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