Monster of the Day

  OK, so we ran down the actual T-Fest line-up. However, we watch a lot of stuff off hours as well. A nod to Chad R, T-Fest's official historian and secretary for keeping track of everything. The first film we watched, on Thursday night before the Fest, was the shot on video Each Time…

Japan has released a big screen Shin Godzilla movie. I don't think it's as grim as Shin Godzilla, but it shouldn't be in any case. Fathom events (check their website) will be showing for one night each the dubbed and subbed versions in January for those interested.

We wrapped out with our traditional (at least in the ballpark of a) T-Rex movie, with Harryhausen's classic Valley of Gwangi. This was the last classic we hadn't gotten around to after 18 years. I'm starting to think maybe we should find a new theme for the capper once we hit out 21st Fest.…

So weirdly I myself showed Conquest because it looked goofy (it was made during that period when Italian sword and sorcery films were incorporating Star Wars-y stuff, like the Wookies above, ala the Lou Ferrigno Hercules movies) and I had just bought a heavily discounted copy of the Blu Ray. The film still looks…

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…