Monster of the Day

Sweet!

Man, that's a great poster, although I feel it doesn't represent the actual tone of the film very well.

I imagine most of us prefer art posters, but man, that there is one great photo poster.

Speaking of films that look better in the poster, here's the Japanese art for Giant Spider Invasion. (!) I wonder if this is a cinema poster or a home video cover? I think it's funny that it reached Japan in either way, but could it possibly have played in theaters?

I guess I'm not surprised that Japan knows how to sell a giant monster film, but man, this does not reflect what I know about this movie. If this was an accurate poster, I would have been there first day buying my ticket.

We'll see if the niece wants to make it to a third movie (after a dinner break), and if she does, what she makes of this. Frankly, if she bails and I can get her back home in time--it's a bit of a hike--I'll probably instead try to make that evening's showing of Sound!…

The G-Fest film I'm really excited about, of course, is Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster. (Ghidrah, back in my day.) It's hard to explain how incredible Ghidrah was back then, a monster so powerful that it took Toho's Big Three combined to defeat it. Plus the first combined universe mash-up since the Universal monster…

Sorry, I didn't get my roundtable piece done (neither did anyone else), so I'm going to shoot for next weekend. Please contribute a piece if you would like. Any length is fine, it doesn't have to be a big review or anything. This is another short week for me, as I took off Thursday…

You'd think with all the anime I'm watching I'd give Lily C.A.T. a go this weekend for our Amazon Prime round table (email me your pieces at ken@jabootu.com!). Well, no. I just don't particularly like sci-fi anime, especially dark sci-fi anime. Speaking, after being denied on several occasions this year due to snow storms…

I've never watched Revenge of Dr X, despite the fact that it has a bad rubber monster suit and was written by Ed Wood (!). So I think this is the weekend. Thanks, Amazon Prime!