Monster of the Day

So we closed up Sunday night watching the extremely fun Murder He Says with Fred McMurray. It's easily the best of the Arsenic and Old Lace competitors I've seen (dark comedy requires a deft touch, especially back in the day). City Slicker McMurray goes to the country and runs afoul of a family of…

So we partially watched Witchery, an Italian supernatural demon/old dark house flick starring Linda Blair and David Hasselhoff. I can't remember why we stopped watching it. Bad disc? Anyway, I was pretty logy that day, so memories are failing. Next I showed Superstition, because Arthur, Sandy's son, really likes witch movies. It's basically a…

Next up was 1990's The Laughing Dead. It's an independent vanity project about undead Aztecs or something. I can't really remember all that much about it, which I think sums it up. The acting was generally pretty amateur hour. Honestly, I don't even remember this lizard guy, so that shows you how much the…

OK, back to T-Fest. Yes, this is getting ludicrously late, I shouldn't have basically taken Thanksgiving week off. Anyway, we left off on Sunday, having started the day with The Shrine. Sandy next showed the Bava film Hatchet for a Honeymoon. It's a very weird film, in that it goes from a serial killer…

Sandy kicked off our post-Fest Sunday with The Shrine, a 2010 mystery/horror film largely set in Poland. Delightfully, the central female character is allowed to be a selfish asshole rather than being completely virtuous all the time. The film also ably uses the sense of paranoia you can feel when you go to a…

So after the last movie of the day shift, followed by a (of course) fun episode of The Untouchables ("Ya Yelllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!"), and Chad R's quiz on demon movies--one in a walk by first time attendee Cullen--we broke for dinner. A few years ago I showed the WC Fields movie Never Give a Sucker an…

I was afraid there wasn't enough monsters for the line-up (sadly, the incredible octopus from yesterday appears for like ten seconds), so I showed the dire Winterbeast. Its like Equinox made by the untalented. It's astoundingly cheap, and the monsters don't stay on screen for nearly long enough. But they are adorable and there…

We started Saturday's T-Fest (the 17th, I think) with Lon Chaney's The Unknown. I don't want to go into many plot details, because you should look the film up and watch it. Pre-code films would be surprisingly perverse, and Lon Chaney pre-codes could be exceedingly perverse. Great little movie, and it only lasted an…

We finished Friday night with The Oily Maniac, which was basically What if the Shaw Brothers made Toxic Avenger as a straight horror/revenge/superheroish sort of movie. Here a guy who's been wronged by many people (especially the women, who he focuses his wrath upon) gains the power to become a sentient oil slick and…

Well, back from the dead. I was back halfway last week. However, I was exhausted, and blindsided at work by something which meant I've barely started getting caught up yet. So this will be a busy workweek, especially since I'm planning to take off all of next week in conjunction with Thanksgiving. I love…