Monster of the Day

In a fitting moment, we followed James Cameron's first movie with Peter Jackson's first movie. It's insane to think that the guy who made the extremely aptly named Bad Taste for like $100 later directed the Lord of the Rings trilogy, a work that at present looks like it might be the last great…

Following The Vampire Happening we decamped for a luxuriant breakfast at Walker Bros. Then back to the mines. Next up was Sextette. I'll forgo making Mae West our subject today, but it was a near call. After that it was gory camp with James Cameron's directorial debut (mostly), Pirahna II The Spawning. It's really…

My old friend Jeff, who like the Rev came in for a whole week (although again, the Rev attended the actual B-Fest this same weekend), oddly contributed 1971's The Vampire Happening. I assume he found this on Amazon Prime, because this is an obscure one. It's a German vampire comedy (uh uh) that basically…

You know you've picked a wrong  path in life when you're watching Zardoz with a crowd for like the 6th time in your life. I don't know what we did to piss off Julie and Tim, but between Heartbeeps and Zardox..yikes. After that we again returned to Things Shown Before at B-Fest and watched…

So Friday's Watch Party, which was typically delightful, featured The Slime People. It's a slog, written, directed and starring Robert Hutton, for the first hour, livened only when they hide out in a real butcher shop and we get to see what meat cost back in the day. Less than now, in case your…

After Samson vs the Vampire Women we watched Voyage of the Rock Aliens with Pia Zadora. It's one of those goofy, free from everything and the kitchen sink sort of affairs, and I don't remember anything about it. Think of a 90 minutes '80s music video and you're basically there. There might have been…

So..Chad and Chad (the Rev) attended real B-Fest. The rest of us had decided to do another "Basement Fest" the following weekend. However, Paul and Holly (old friends of mine and our hosts, as their house boasts a fabulous screening room with huge leather recliners) got a request from Julie and Tim. Holly and…

Things ended, not with the traditional giant monster movie (although there had been several of those during the morning), but with a Corman 'classic,' Beast of Haunted Cave. Of course, the economical Corman later remade the film as Creature of the Haunted Sea, made briefly famous when it's monster appeared in the opening for…

They didn't have an actual Godzilla movie, but they had an episode (or more?) of the old Hanna-Babera Godzilla series. Yes, yes, the one with Godzookie, the Scrappy Doo of the Godzilla world. Here Godzilla fought the Fire Bird. Sounds fun, I wouldn't mind seeing more of this in the future. I mean, a…

After Return to Oz the '80s streak continued with Skatetown USA, which the Chads rather liked, I believe. Then came the film Chad R sponsored (although he gave me credit, grafting my head on a cartoon admiral; take that, Cap'n Crunch). He went super old school and showed The Giant Claw, because, hey, it's…