Monster of the Day

Ah, the glory days. Make a crappy movie, but have a great poster.

The '80s was the last gasp, really, of the beautiful painted movie posters, especially for horror movies. That's because modest flicks like this actually could still play in the theaters, and because the burgeoning video rental market allowed for the artwork to be used to real effect. Another little cultural niche that's basically lost…

Happy Friday! Watch something stupid this weekend. I'll try to cover you if you join the Kast.gg Watch Party tonight. Past that, how about also watching a classic this weekend?    

So Chad had a copy of a fun romantic / comic / murder mystery called Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe. I think I might have read the novel when I was a teen. The lead couple is lovably obnoxious fast food magnate George Segal (who pulls off that tightrope really well)…

The greatest giant spider in movie history. So here's my recent Robot Holocaust story. I have my packages shipped to my friends Holly & Paul's house (where we hold Basement Fest) because they are there all day to collect them so they don't get stolen or rained / snowed on. So pre-Basement Fest I…

"MOOOONNN-TAGGGG!" So I stayed all through Tuesday, the day I usually fly back. Chad R hung around, and Sandy's friend Mike spent much of the day with us too. Sandy wanted to show Mike Wizard of Gore, because of course he did. It's certainly weird for a HG Lewis gore flick. And although I'm…

So we ended Monday watching the original Danish cut of Reptilicus. This infamously features the flying Reptilicus, which the American distributors thought looked so silly they cut the footage. Which is saying something, since they actually inserted the hilarious, infamous Terry Gillium-in-Grade-School-esque animation of a farmer being eaten. Meanwhile, anyone who's seen the movie…

"I swear, if one more guy asks if I'm friggin' Zontar...." After Monster on the Campus we watched the rather grisly pre-code horror film Murders in the Zoo. This features Lionel Atwill as a murderously jealous big game hunter. The film opens with a guy whose lips have been graphically sewn together, which must…

Yeti was our first and last monster movie on Sunday. The rest of the day we watched Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (Tod Slaughter's last film and a bit of a departure--it wasn't adapted from a stage play and he assayed a hooded supervillain type), which was quite fun. Then it was These…

I was asked if I had anything to start off the Sunday bonus movies. I had a fancy blu ray edition of the *cough* Canadian giant monster movie Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century, so we went with that. It stars one of the Bee Gees, although I'm not a big enough fan to…