Monster of the Day

I'm not sure I like this gritty new reboot of Mr. Greenjeans.

It's extremely odd to me that these three films have never been collected in a box set. Different rights holders? Maybe. Except for the Mimic movies, I can't think of a low-budget trilogy from this era that was so consistently good. Unsurprisingly, Larry Cohen wrote these. That's a guarantee of quality right there. Well,…

Never seen it, but I've heard good / bad things.

Tony Stark after fighting the Hulk.

In 1991 some folks figured out that mummies are basically zombies. Inevitably the Italians made a mummy zombie movie, Burial Ground.That film is particularly beloved by Sandy Petersen, featuring characters who are jaw-droppingly stupid even for an Italian zombie movie, not to mention a very unseemly incest sub-plot involving a mother and her young…

CPR Class...of the Damned!!

The guy on the right is looking for some lozenges, presumably because the other fellow has a sour cough, I guess. Proof, anyway, that Jenson wasn't the only Babe to explore a mummy's tomb.

Well, I was never going to top last week, anyway.

I know I'm a bit of a crank on CGI, but crap, man, look at that!! A full sized prop octopus! That's the stuff, I'm telling you. (I'm not sure I've mentioned this, but I'm sort of partial to giant octopi in my movies.) Can you imagine how unwieldy that thing must have been?…