Monster of the Day

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Today's Monster of the Day should be Freeman Williams, who along with Chris Holland and, of course, Sandy Petersen started T-Fest. Back at the first show Freeman, who was obviously in attendance, showed the extremely fun Chamber of Horrors. Unfortunately, this year he couldn't attend, but he was still given a slot, and he…

The first T-Fest was held in a hotel conference room. Sandy P funded it, and didn't come close to getting his money back. (The more things change....) As such we for the only time charged admission and allowed film sponsorships. Our first sponsor was Chad Richard (along with the Drauts, our first attendees) who…

We open T-Fest 20 (!) with my choice of Watari the Ninja Boy, an extremely fun (if I say so myself) '60s color, well, ninja boy movie. It was packed with wonderful sets and miniatures and pyrotechnics and all the wonderful things we used to get before CGI made filmmakers lazy. Just a lot…

Halloween Watch Party went from Universal's Son of Dracula to Hammer's Brides of Dracula. Brides, despite the crushing absence of Christopher Lee (who had yet to return to the cloak), is really good Hammer vampire shenanigans. The reason is obvious; the central character is Peter Cushing's vigorous Dr. Van Helsing, and its hard to…