Monster of the Day

Well, we never did explicate what our little group watched at Basement Fest '23. The first Basement Fest was held because they had cancelled B-Fest because of Covid. However, a goodly portion of the regular B-Fest people decided they liked this one better--we pick the movies, my friends Paul and Holly have a swank…

We watched a Gamera movie several months ago at a Watch Party. However, I barely got Howling II in after it had been on my list for a long time, because it turned out it was less than two weeks from leaving Amazon. I would have felt like a prat if we had had…

Empire of the Ants is fine, but it has its problems. One is personal; I’ve gone on record many times about how I generally don’t like side stories in my sci-fi films, and that includes the “ants enslaving humans” thing. So that’s one more reason to prefer Food of the Gods; it’s about giant…

Bert I Gordon last made a movie with monsters in 1965, and that one, Village of the Giants, wasn’t really a monster movie. After that we branched out in different genres. And although he did make a horror movie in 1972 (starring Orson Welles!), it didn’t have a monster in it. So it was…

Sorry about the late post. Frankly, I overslept a little this morning and didn’t have time to post before I left to work. The reason I overslept is that I *gasp* not only saw a movie in a theater yesterday, I saw two movies in a theater yesterday. For those who don’t know, I…

Although Mr. Gordon’s work in the 1960s often involved the macabre, he was definitely straying from his giant monster work of the 1950s. The ‘60s saw a kiddie film, a ghost story, a TV pilot built around that ghost story, a kid-oriented sword and sorcery flick, another TV pilot ripping off My Favorite Martian,…

Following 1960, Bert I Gordon slowed down production a bit. He seems to have spent a hunk of the next couple of years, for instance, trying to break into syndicated TV.  In 1961, for instance, he hired Vincent Price as the host for the television pilot Famous Ghost Stories. In this, Mr. Price introduced…

After the frenzy of releasing six special effects-driven movies in two years, Bert I Gordon actually took a year off. In 1960 his work returned to the screen, via the kiddie movie (and his first color film) The Boy and the Pirates. We actually watched that on an Amazon Watch Party several months back.…

Bert I Gordon wrapped up his streak of six films released in two years with 1958’s The Spider (aka Earth vs the Spider, as it was known to us young TV viewers back in the day). This is my favorite of Mr. Gordon’s movies. Indeed, as I have noted in the past, I like…

Mr BIG returned to form with his one sequel, War of the Colossal Beast, sort of a mash-up of Amazing Colossal Man and The Cyclops. There's a really good remastered copy on YouTube, for those who want to give it a look. Clocking in at a lean 69 minutes (including flashbacks from the first…