Monster of the Day

Dell Comics back in the '60s had an interesting strategy. They turned out not very good comics, but hired really good artists to paint their covers, guys like George Wilson and Morris Gollub. The interior art, meanwhile, generally was bad to decent at best, but by the time you saw that you'd already been…

700! Who knew?

You know, some day I've got to watch some of these shows.

I wonder what it was like to be a designer on one of these Japanese monster shows. You could (at least sometimes, one would imagine) work you ass off to design a really cool monster, knowing in advance that by far the most likely outcome is that the monster will never appear in anything…

Man, you gotta like that.

Ran out out of Ghosthouse stuff, so back to Hausu. I believe this is the third time the film has supplied a MotD.

I realize this still makes it look like they're something interesting in Ghosthouse...DON'T FALL FOR IT! The beastie here looks a lot more impressive in the still than it does in the film, maybe because it's awkward movements reveal it's phony nature. Sadly, I could not find a picture of the killer fan, so…

We continue our look at Ghosthouse. Notice the reappearance of the doll, who periodically--by which I mean, every four or five minutes--appears like this with the ghost of this little girl. It's like they assembled the movie from a Spooky Movie checklist. Spooky Doll: Check. Spooky Girl Ghost: Check. Spooky Ghost Dog: Check. Spooky…

Sorry for my absence yesterday; Joe Bannerman was visiting, and we spent much of the extended weekend (get ready) watching bad movies...actually, we watched more good movies, so it was weird that way. Back to back (albeit one in the late evening, the next in the following morning) we watched Hausu (aka House) and…

Hard to get more Gothic than this. Blacula was pretty close, but the whole 'black Dracula' thing still injected a very modern note into things. This is one of those films (Warlock is one of the best of them) exploring how Evil can exploit a society that's too 'sophisticated' to believe in Evil anymore.…