Monster of the Day

We finished up the day shift with Virgins from Hell, a pretty fun and predictably crazy Indonesian action flick about a wonderfully garish female biker gang fighting a jungle crimelord. The first and third acts are great, the middle section, which tries as hard as it can to be sleazy in a country that…

Sandy decided to bust out his William Grefe box set--we live in an age of wonders, and were just glad he didn't bust out his Al Adamson box set (again). In the end he opted for Whiskey Mountain, a Hickploitation film starring Christopher George and his wife, frequent costar Susan Day George. Or so…

Whew! Back to the real world, and sadly, a Texas-sized pile of make up work at the office. Oh, well. I'll talk about the off-Fest showings later, but we started T-Fest 18 with a cheese classic, The X From Outer Space. Needless to say, it was met with great enthusiasm, and remained one of…

In honor of Godzilla Day yesterday, Toho posted on the Godzilla Channel on YouTube a new short, Godzilla vs Gigan Rex. It's very fun, and it's always thrilling to hear Ifukube's music. It's also got a great neato Godzilla design. They quickly pulled down the Godzilla vs Hedorah short earlier this year, so watch…

Ah, Coffin Joe. Sort of Brazil's Paul Naschy, José Mojica Marins also ran into censorship issues--especially due to his disdain for the Catholic Church--but his movies are really weird and personal and quite fun. Coffin Joe has a lot of political and philosophical issues, and they are fully on display in the series. These…

I didn't get around to my Island of Terror Blu Ray this last weekend--I wanted a Cushing film--but I just saw the remarkably accurate poster art and decided to post it. I don't know which country provided this, although the German poster is just a blonde with big naked boobs and a sort of…

The second movie we watched Friday was Exorcist II: The Heretic. It's as goofy as a film as you'd expect from the guy who directed Zardoz. What were they thinking? About an hour in I realized it might actually be dumber than Return of the Ape Man. Burton is fully in his awful period,…

So we resumed my little friend group's Halloween Party this year. We usually show something (by my standards) old school to start, so I picked Return of the Ape Man. It's the perfect bit of poverty row nonsense, with this one classic image of Bela in a tux walking around the *cough* city streets…

Halloween is Monday, so have a great Halloween weekend. This week watching something stupid is optional. Watch something spooky. Have a great weekend, everyone. Watch Party next Friday.

So my friend Matt couldn't get the rights to show Dr. Phibes (although he could have shown the sequel??) at the Pickwick last night. So he showed House of Wax in 2-D, Vincent Price's first horror movie. It's very fun and Price is great and it costars Lois Lane and Morticia Addams and Charles…