Monster of the Day

That's a nice shot, even if it's posed. (Warning: SMOKING) Ah, Bela. Watch a Bela movie this month, everyone.

Halloween approaches! Here's to Milicent Patrick, the woman who designed and was in charge of the Creature of the Black Lagoon suit. Department head Bud Westmore got the official credit, but Ms. Patrick did the work and has been vindicated by history. Her design is so perfect that fishmen movies have struggled to get…

  There are surprisingly few monsters on the covers of Terror Tales, but man, there are lots of half-dressed (if that) beauties about to split in half by buzzsaws or have acid dripped on them or other grotesque forms of mayhem. And these are not covers where a heroic chap is bursting onto the…

No joke, I overslept. Off to work. See ya tomorrow. Watch Party tomorrow.

Hey, everyone. Sorry about dipping out the last couple of days. I had a bunch of family in town and we've been hanging out. Back to work today, though. The Beetle, the inherently scary-sounding animal name. Watch Party this Friday. The 20th T-Fest will be the weekend after this, in Rockwall TX per usual.

Man, they looked so cute in Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro.

Wow, uh, 3500 of these. Weird. No need to comment on the cover. Nope, don't even worry about it.

Hmm, I'm not sure about this dark, gritty remake of The Red Balloon.

We continued our run of fun movies with William Girdler's Day of the Animals, one of the better "animal attack" flicks of the '70s. My main takeaway: When animals are driven insane by solar radiation, they all become a highly organized army, ala Frogs. Leslie Nielsen, especially, is a hoot, apparently improvising (rather redundantly)…

Happy Friday, everyone! Have a great weekend! Watch something stupid. In fact, watch something stupid with us tonight at our Watch Party. I think we've got another crowd pleaser tonight but time will tell.