Monster of the Day

Nice to see Maguma get a little work.

Speaking of repurposed art (as we were a couple of days ago), I'm pretty such certain this was drawn over a men's adventure Komodo dragon cover we showcased a few years ago. Presumably that's why the hero is wielding a space machete rather than a ray gun. Oh, and the native victim is a…

The Pretzel Men of Saturn were understandably defensive.

Space Louis Armstrong!

We kicked around a lot of titles for our Texas movie finale, but Bats won. Audience lost.

You know you've hit a cinema sweet spot when you get a guy like this. By the way, this was about 25 years after a quite similar Cyclops appeared in Mexico's seminal Ship of Monsters. Point Mexico.

I don't buy many DVDs these days (I literally don't have room for them), but when Mondo Macabro releases an '80s Indonesian gonzo action fantasy film? C'mon. It unsurprisingly played well, and I'm sure I sold a few copies among the other attendees. Among the pleasures on hand was a witch who could survive…

OK, a storm or construction or something knocked out my Internet and landline phone last week, but I'm back up and running. Last we met, we were looking at monsters from the spring Tween-Fest in Dallas a few weeks ago. After the horrors of Mac and Me, we found due to short movies that…

We opened Tween Fest with the obscure but delightful Captain Sindbad, a non Harryhausen film that retains a ton of charm. However, all the beasties from that have been featured here before. Next was Dr. Giggles, which was quite a bit better than most of us were expecting. A win for Sandy, certainly. After…

Back to the world, and late for work of course. Because the actual latest Tween-Fest (the weekend before this), on Friday Chad R provided a copy of the surprisingly good cheapie Raw Force, with cannibal monks, (sort of) Kung Fu heroes, and martial arts zombies. It's seldom competent, but always entertaining Also, the latest…