Monster of the Day

Merry Christmas, everyone!Thanks to all of you for continuing to come to what is, I must admit, a basically dormant site. Thanks especially for those poor souls who join me on my inept Discord Watch Parties. It's a cumbersome mechanism for those, but while I sometimes lament the loss of the far niftier Amazon…

Christmas is in two days. Crazy.

Galaxy Jane and her husband Jamie were nice enough to send me this picture from their wedding, so I thought I'd share it with you guys.We had the final Discord Watch Party of 2025 last Friday. It's awkward to do it (as all things on Discord seem to be), but I figured out how…

Well, that was nearly it for monsters at this year's T-Fest weekend. Following Attack of the Puppet People, we watched Police Raid (1947), an interesting if not spectacular crime thriller made in the East German (i.e., Soviet) sector of Berlin after the war, by studio DEFA. There's a set of films like available now…

The next two Sunday movies at T-Fest were Holy Weapons, a satisfyingly crazy Hong Kong martial arts epic, and Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020). The latter is a modestly-budgeted Japanese film but a REALLY good time travel movie. Sort of. If you like that sort of thing, definitely check it out. Then it…

We went from Demon of Mount Oe to another foreign obscurity, 1950's Heart of Stone, made by the East German film company DEFA. In other words, it was supervised by the Communist Party, and thus is unsurprisingly not very favorable to Capitalism. On the other hand, they don't ram it down your throats, so…

We live in a glorious (if expensive!) age where a ton of obscurities and marvelous foreign fare is coming to Blu Ray via a plethora of boutique media companies. For instance, Radiance, a Brit company, has put out couple of (region free) Blu Ray sets in their--hopefully continuing--Daiei Gothic line. The second volume contained…

We ended things with our T-Rex movie, the venerable One Million B.C. (1940). Starring Victor Mature as a caveman, as seen on the right. There had been cavemen in movies before--Buster Keaton played one in 3 Ages--but this is the grandfather of the caveman movie, establishing all the plot tropes associated with that little…

After some tasty Texas BBQ for dinner, we started T-Fest. The evening slate began with She (1935). It's a bit of a classic and I'm sure many of you have seen it at some point. After that we watch Killbots, aka Chopping Mall. I know you've pretty much all seen this. (Although it was…

So last Friday's Watch Party subject was Vampire Moth, a 1956 black and white Japanese horror movie that was kind of a proto-giallo, especially in that it was quite hard to follow the plot. Even so, it was pretty great. The scenes were good enough that it kept your interest even after you gave…