Monster of the Day #3629
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Monster of the Day #3629

I've noted many times--including yesterday--that I have never derived much satisfaction from the many many Ultramans or the many many Ultraman knock-off shows. HOWEVER...I saw a long YouTube video on how the looniest Ultraman series was Ultraman Ace, which happily is all on YouTube. Seeing clips, I watched the second to last (of 52!)…
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Monster of the Day #3628
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Monster of the Day #3628

We next watched another episode of Ultra Q, Grow Up! LIttle Turtle. I always thought it as an independent short they bought and inserted into the show; tonally, it's like almost nothing else in the series, the usual leads are barely in it and tangential to the main action, etc. It's a real piece…
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Monster of the Day #3627
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Monster of the Day #3627

Father Time. The one monster who *always* wins. Still enough time for a Watch Party this week, though. (I mean, probably.) 7:45 CST this week.
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Monster of the Day #3626
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Monster of the Day #3626

  By now a lot of the grandkiddies were around, so we watched Goro and Goro, probably the most kid friendly episode of Ultra Q (and they're basically all kid friendly). This is the one about the friendship between a mentally challenged guy and a giant monkey, which was created in two minutes by…
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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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