Monster of the Day

This Spanish/German/Italian co-production is not nearly as good as you'd hope it to be, although it has it's points. Amusingly, the plot is not that far off from Plan 9 from Outer Space's, although it's not quite as close as was Invisible Invaders. Michael Rennie (!) sadly plays the lead alien. There is a…

Sorry about Friday, I had Internet issues. Anyway, this ends our Jess Franco DvF stuff, although there were some rather generic pretty girl vampires. Again, though, this is a HIGHLY tedious film. Well, it's a Jeff Franco film. So obviously.

Wow, that was my exact expression watching this film. (It's the stitches drawn on with an eyebrow pencil that really sell this design.)

The early '70s were a fecund period for films called Dracula vs Frankenstein. This one, by Jess Franco (uh oh) is more aptly summed up by it's alternate title, Dracula Prisoner of Frankenstein. Dracula is zombiefied by Dr. Frankenstein (so the title is correct for once) early on and never break free to contest…

For some reason this shot was used a lot for publicity purposes.

Have I really never featured this guy? Man, I really need to do an inventory.

Third Halloween show, third Twilight Zone parody.

The second Treehouse of Horror went back to the Twilight Zone well (predictably enough, given the age of the people making the show then). Bart fit *very* nicely into the Billy Mummy role.

The first segment of the first Treehouse of Horrors parodied the Amityville Horror, the third was a read of The Raven by James Earl Jones. The second story, however, introduced Kang and Kodos (initially joined by a rare third alien), who have functioned as the mascots of the yearly Halloween episodes. The first one…

I hope everyone had a good weekend. Rings kind of predictably didn't. I figured it sucked when they didn't let critics review it before it came out. However, I was still surprised that it has scored a truly woeful 5% on Rotten Tomatoes. 5%!! It also earned a measly $13, so its probably not…