Monster of the Day

Yeah, that would be bad. Quick, call Kona!

Ah, killer plants. Now that I think about it, when did movies stop featuring random killer plants. Cinema sucks now. (Except for The Avenger and John Wick and Godzilla.)

I woke up and realized I had nothing planned, so...pulp covers! Can't go wrong with pulp covers. Man, the number of times I saw that look on women's faces.

I won't make this purely about anime, an obsession I'm trying not to inflict on people (except in one woeful case where, like a vampire, I was invited in). However, I can see some of you guys liking the currently running show Dororo. It's basically a dark fantasy with samurai-esque swordplay and demons. The…

So on Sunday we watched a lot of misc stuff, including (apparently we hadn't had enough Dolph Lundgren sci-fi on Saturday) Masters of the Universe. There are several monster guys, but towering about them is Frank Langella as Skeletor. His acting here is my go to example of a performance that transcends to an…

We always end the spring fest with a film made in Texas, and this Houston-filmed sci-fi action flick sure fit the bill. It's pretty fun, like a dumber The Hidden, although the core motive of the murderous alien is quite nifty.

The penultimate film at the Fest was the second Blind Dead movie. This four film series is interesting in that each film is discrete unto itself and rewrites the 'rules' of the Dead. So you never know where things are going to go from movie to movie. And the Blind Dead are a pretty…

After shorts and the quiz (a very good TV & movies spaceship test by Chad R., the first one I ever won, albeit by only one point) and dinner, we returned and started up Lake of Dracula. This was the first of three Toho vampire movies clearly inspired by Hammer's films. Although rare, all…

The third slot was given to GalaxyJane in honor of her birthday, and she choose Abby. For some reason (maybe made by a small film company that would out of business and the master print was destroyed?), there's no decent print of the movie, which seems weird for something made in 1974. This was…

The second film was Dr Blood's Coffin, a....well,let's just say it's not pulse-pounding fare. Sandy wanted to show it because it features one of the more inept villain protagonists you'll find, and that's true. In real like this guy would have been hauled off to jail in about five minutes. Luckily for him, everyone…