Monster of the Day

After the atmospheric but ultimately disappointing Mexican horror flick The Similars, we popped in the stunningly atmospheric and not at all disappointing Mexican horror flick The Black Pit of Dr. M. The film is wildly all over the map (as opposed to The Similars, where the same scenes happened again and again and again),…

The Similars was a recent Mexican horror film that Sandy came across. People stranded in a small town bus depot start having a horrifying thing happen to them. This is kind of interesting (for a while, anyway) until about we finally get the solution to the incident and it turns out this is just…

Sandy dug this up, which proved an early example of something I've always liked, which is the very solid series of supernatural or at least macabre* investigator TV pilots from the '60s and '70s for shows that sadly never went anywhere (other than with Kolchak). This one I'd never even heard of, and was…

It turns out you don't want to hit "refresh Firefox" when you ONLY have half an hour before you have to leave for work. Anyway, I hope everyone had a great day yesterday. And now it's Friday! Whee!

Vampirella was clearly different from Uncle Creepy and Cousin Eerie because she was an actual character with an ongoing series of stories in her magazine rather than just a host. Therefore unlike her compatriots she pretty much featured directly on the covers of her book. It's almost like Warren thought she had some sort…

As detailed in the excellent biography James Warren Empire of Monsters, Warren Publishing eventually starting using a pre-established stable of Spanish artists. I was out of the books by then, but it does sound like the books got interesting again. Although it also sounds like they more heavily went into more realistic tales of…

I've been reading the very nice biography James Warren Empire of Monsters, which is really a history of Warren Publishing. It reminded me that the company kept publishing its horror magazines well past the time I was reading them in the early days. The book is very well written and informative, and a very…

This is easily the best of the lot (although the Krimi is great!). I showed this at T-Fest one year, and except for Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake, might have been the be received "modest little movie that everyone kinda loved." Crazy cast; Cameron Mitchell (starting the road from How to Marry a Millionaire…

Hmmm, I'm sensing a theme here.

That about sums everything up, all right.