Monster of the Day #3384
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Monster of the Day #3384

Following La Marca del Muertos we watched Wheels of Fire, a pretty generic Italian post-apocalypse rip-off of Mad Max, of which they made like a million. This one was fine, although really, these things sort of run together. There's some cars with welded on armor, guns with weirdly lots of ammo, dubbing, still acting,…
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Monster of the Day #3383
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Monster of the Day #3383

Wow, already a week plus since T(ween) Fest 14. As veteran readers--i.e., all of you--will have gleaned by now, we start watching movies before the actual Saturday fest. We didn't watch anything in Houston this year, but as soon as we hit Dallas on the Fest eve the films started. The first was the…
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Monster of the Day #3382
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Monster of the Day #3382

I'm back! Another Tween Fest in the books. Next year will mark the 20th (!) annual T-Fest and the 15th annual Tween-Fest. We have big plans going. I'll start running through what we watched last weekend tomorrow. Today I mark one of the two great philosophers I have based my life on. (The other,…
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Monster of the Day #3381
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Monster of the Day #3381

About out the door to do four hours of work, then off to the airport to catch my flight to Houston. (Going to Dallas on Friday.) So last MotD for a week. Enjoy!
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Monster of the Day #3380
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Monster of the Day #3380

Getting ready to leave tomorrow for Houston and ultimately suburban Dallas. Whew! This looks familiar. Is it a recycled American cover? The only argument against it is that I've looked at a bunch of these covers and they rarely feature (sexy) women, which was comparatively rare for the American pulps. Still love this stuff,…
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Monster of the Day #3379
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Monster of the Day #3379

This picture itself is a spoiler, so...sorry. We had a small (but great) crowd on Friday's Watch Party, so I picked something short and sweet. I hadn't seen The Vampire Bat since I was a kid, and only vaguely remembered it as another poverty row cheapie. That largely proved incorrect. It wasn't a lavish…
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Monster of the Day #3376
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Monster of the Day #3376

We ended on our usual kaiju film. I picked Gamera Super Monster because its so damn goofy. Pleasingly, Chad first say Gamera vs Jiger on the multi-film disc menu, and got very excited. His cries of pain upon realizing which film we were actually watching were pretty sweet. That said, as objectively awful as…
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Monster of the Day #3375
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Monster of the Day #3375

By the time The Pack ended we were heading into the home stretch. The third from last film was the Sweeny Todd-inspired The Undertaker and His Pals, presented by our co-host Paul. It’s a short little gore comedy that basically plays like a Herschell Gordon Lewis film if they were more successfully darkly humorous.…
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