Monster of the Day

Sorry for the break, we got hit with a lot of weather last week, including a snow storm (exacerbated by my car not starting and having to be towed to my mechanic) followed the now legendary polar vortex that saw actual temps here down to like 27 below. I had decamped to my friends'…

Not Bela! Creeping Terror was followed by it's B-Fest replacement. I personally wouldn't have run those back to back but that's just kibitzing.

After Food of the Gods, we got the cheesy but sleazy Hypnotic Eye, surely the inspiration for Herschell Gordon Lewis' Wizard of Gore. This was followed up by my favorite film this year, Get Crazy, a nutty comedy by Allan "Rock N Roll High School" Arkush that was far funnier than I anticipated. Then…

B-Fest 2019 is in the books, everyone is safely back home, and it's now time to (ugh) start the arduous task of catching up at work. The Fest started out well, although there was much discontent over the deaths of much of the film's rodent cast. I have to admit, however, that this Brit…

People start arriving for B-Fest weekend today, so my massive workload on the site will probably come to a screeching halt until maybe Tuesday. For those who can't join us, have a great week, and hopefully we can see some of you in Texas in April.

Did I mention B-Fest is this weekend?

I've always been frustrated by the fact that in the age of deluxe hardcover reprints of classic comic strips and single panel artists like Gary Larson the New Yorker cartoons of macabre master Charles Addams have never been similarly collected. You'd think he'd have a leg up what with everyone knowing what the Addams…

Have a great weekend, everyone. Next week: B-Fest!

Timm knows *exactly* how to make this movie look better than it is.

Speaking of things I wish were really a thing...