Monster of the Day

Short on time? 1943's Poverty Row feature The Ape Man, starring Bela Lugosi and directed by (of course) William Beaudine, runs a scant 63 minutes. It's super cheap and silly, but endearing, and is bookended with a weird very meta joke. Every generation thinks they invented sophisticated humor like that, but it's been around…

I know I've been leaning on the Cult Cinema Classics channel pretty hard as I spotlight "films you can watch for free on YouTube." There's a reason for that, though. They have a good backlog of schlock, and their film prints are often very nice, especially for things uploaded onto YouTube. Another nice aspect…

One of the better Amicus portmanteau films, House that Dripped Blood, is available via the Cult Cinema Classics channel on YouTube. Hey, a film that features both Sean John Pertwee and Ingrid Pitt as vampires can't be bad. Also on hand is Denholm Elliott, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee (in one of the best…

Screaming Skull is a prime example of what cheapie monster movies were like back in the day. Budgetary reasons often only had the monster fully revealed in the last five or ten minutes (made more bearable by the films themselves often only lasting 60 or 65 minutes), so that big reveal often made or…

Behold the terror! Are you one of the many who feel Monster on the Campus is too...posh, too rarified, too tony? Well, there's always the, er, much more blue collar The Neandertal Man. Free for viewing on the Cult Cinema Classics channel on YouTube. Unless, of course, you own the Blu Ray double bill…

It's on YouTube! I'd suggest watching this and yesterday's flick and many more cool monster monsters on the Cult Cinema Classics channel. From what I've seen, they have much nicer prints than many other sources. Keep well, everyone!

With people spending a little more time at home (I'm still going into work, so other than stopping to sit down and grab a bite, this whole thing isn't really doing that for me), let's get back to Things You Can Watch on YouTube. This is one of several films padded with footage Roger…

The '80s really were the last heyday for practical effects monsters. As noted yesterday, I haven't seen TerrorVision, but this thing was apparently huge and required several people to operate it. Although I wouldn't trade his seminal work for anything, it does make you wonder what Paul Blaisdell could have whipped up with more…

Ugh, Monday. Well, for me anyway, it's off to work. Although again there are only a couple of us in a big space now, so the distancing thing isn't that difficult. I hope the rest of you are keeping well and occupied. What are people watching. I hope you're sitting down, but I've been…

Stuart Gordon has passed away. I'm getting up there, so I remember when filmmakers from the '40s and '50s started dying, now it's people remembered from the '80s. I never really felt that Re-Animator or From Beyond (admittedly, I haven't seen that one) really 'felt' like Lovecraft, but man, Dagon sure does. Great movie.…