Monster of the Day #3625
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Monster of the Day #3625

Last day of T-Fest 20. I stayed an extra day for more hang-out time. Chad R played another "Sirk Before He was Sirk" movie, Sign of the Pagan (1954). It's a regilious epic about Rome vs Genghis Khan. Jeff Chandler is the nominal lead as the head Roman, but he's stiff as a board…
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Monster of the Day #3624
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Monster of the Day #3624

Since we had watched a really good portmanteau movie, Tales of Terror, earlier that day,  I suggested we end the da watching the most charmingly bad one I knew, Gallery of Horror (1967). This ultra cheapie has the requisite star appearances--John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr.--but is basically like five of the laziest attempt at…
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Monster of the Day #3623
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Monster of the Day #3623

For some reason I couldn't find a color still of this. Oh well. We went back to basics for the next film, the Roger Corman Poe film Tales of Terror. One of the chapters sort of field tested the comic tone a few of the following movies adopted, such as The Raven. Vincent Price,…
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Monster of the Day #3622
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Monster of the Day #3622

So. the Monday after T-Fest continued. After The Demon's Baby and The White Buffalo, we watched Thunder on the Hills, provided by Chad R. Chad if the only other person as enamored of bad dramas as I am, and has been doing a deep dive of Douglas Sirk films after we watched All That…
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Monster of the Day #3621
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Monster of the Day #3621

Another movie I'd never seen. Dino REALLY wanted his own Jaws. Will "Orca" Sampson returns as Crazy Horse (sadly, this is not "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" or, particularly, "Outlaw Josie Wales" Will Sampson) opposite Charles Bronson as Wild Bill Hickok. The titular buffalo looks pleasingly--to me--fake. Jack Warden is solid as always…
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Monster of the Day #3620
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Monster of the Day #3620

So we ended Sunday watching The Assassination Bureau, a movie I remember watching with my Mom when I was a kid. It's got a real (Emma Peel) Avengers vibe--certainly helped by the fact that Diana Rigg is the female lead--but with more dark humor. It's set just before World War I and stars Oliver…
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Monster of the Day #3519
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Monster of the Day #3519

After 30 Coins we watched The Boneyard, a zombie flick set in a morgue. It's pretty good, I have to say, and I am famously zombied out. The film is best know for costarring Phyllis Diller in a largely non-comic role. I will say, the cast of largely (so I assume) local actors is…
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Monster of the Day #3518
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Monster of the Day #3518

OK, so Sunday, Post-Fest. We started with Vincent Price's The Mad Magician, one of his early films that is pretty close to House of Wax in tone (if not in grandeur). It's a hoot, and if you love Price--and obviously, we all do--I can't see you not having a good time with it. I…
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Monster of the Day #3517
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Monster of the Day #3517

So we headed into the last slot at T-Fest 20, our traditional T-Rex movie. However, we were running quite late this time, so we instead opted to show the second episode (maybe the best one) of Danger 5, Lizards Soldiers of the Third Reich. Man, when that show was good it was really, really…
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Monster of the Day #3516
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Monster of the Day #3516

So...there was a minor cascade of minorly bad decisions that led to the next movie. I had originally planned to show an outright classic movie, one of the very best and one of my very favorites. However, the allure of Halloween was strong and I decided fairly shortly before the Fest to shelve that…
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