Monster of the Day

Ahh, giant shark. That's the stuff.

It's a dinosaur and a skellington! It's like they made this cover for me.

The penultimate movie was Midnight Madness, a one time cable mainstay that inspired the 'treasure hunts' my own group of friends ran waaaaay back in high school. Not a great film, but a nice cheerful one. For the last film we (quite nearly) returned to old tradition. Back in the day B-Fest always ended…

Following Jason X we had a good long stretch of films that don't concern us here--Blackbelt II, Mother May I Sleep with Danger (not the lesbian vampire one), Flash Gordon, Airborne. Then we got Wasp Woman, 63 minutes of black and white Roger Corman cheapie goodness.

So...I've finally seen a Friday the 13th movie. (Obviously I did see Freddy vs Jason, but I mean a 'real' one.) Meh. Hey, remember when all the monsters--Jason, Leprechaun, Hellraiser, Dracula--were going to outer space?

Skipping over the perennial showing of Plan 9, we moved on to the pretty much forgotten Kull the Conqueror, starring Kevin Sorbo. Sorbo's one of those guys who comes off well in lighter stuff like Hercules but can't really project a darker anti-hero side. On the other hand, this version of Kull is surprisingly…

So the Fest was going along swimmingly, what with Killer Klowns and Dr Phibes and then Revenge of the Ninja, one of Sho Kosugi's entertainingly goofy ninja movies. Then, our first (of luckily few) cinematic potholes, Al Adamson's Blood of Dracula's Castle. It's kind of meant to be funny, but Al Adamson funny. Let's…

Although I had last year shown The Abominable Dr. Phibes at T-Fest last year, I was not disappointed to see it at B-Fest. It was the first time in a while I saw it in on a theater screen. (The first time I saw it I was a pajama-wearing tot at the drive-in.) Phibes…

OK, I had to return to the living someday, unfortunately. Even worse, I have to return to work and have a TON of work to catch up to due to a month long SNAFU from before I took off for B-Fest. So I'll be working Saturday all day too I fear. On the other…

Thanks to Eric Hinkle to suggesting the comic, which I'd never heard of. OK, that's a fairly macho dude. Meanwhile, people start arriving for B-Fest tomorrow, so things will get hectic around here soon. Weather thankfully looks fairly good, maybe a bit of snow, but nothing major forecast at this point.