Monster of the Day

If you're looking for something legitimately spooky to watch on Amazon Prime, they currently offer a pretty good slate of Asian ghost movies, as well as often the American remakes thereof, including the surprisingly solid The Ring. You might want to skip those sequels, though. On the other hand, Rings looked awful. Interesting awful…

Amazon Prime week continues. If Gamera isn't your flavor, somehow, Amazon does offer a few non-Godzilla Toho films. Manda is a briefly seen sideshow in Atragon, rather like the giant walrus in Gorath (although Manda also got a brief appearance in Destroy All Monsters). Even so, it's a fun addition in a neat movie…

  Amazon Prime has (yay!) added all the new and old Gamera movies. They are in nice widescreen presentations, and are the Japanese versions with subtitles. (Sorry, Rock.) You could do far worse for something to do this weekend than watch Gamera vs Gaos followed by Gamera Guardian of the Universe.

"WAKE...UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPP!!!!!" Mondays, am I right. Anyway, we haven't done a It's on Amazon Prime week in a while, so let's catch up on some of their offerings. This is The Unnamable, a story of some people who go to a spooky mansion, mostly to have sex, and are killed by a female demon. As…

Yay, Friday! The Night of the Ghouls has a typically crazy history for an Ed Wood film. It was completed in 1959 but they couldn't afford to pay the lab bill after having the master print processed. So the film was held in hock Finally Wade Williams (of the Wade Williams collection, an early…

I've never actually watched this, and it surely seems unlikely we'll ever get a remastered version of this. By which I mean, I doubt there is a master print of this sitting around anyway. Looking at this, it kind of looks like a Larry Buchanan film written by Ed Wood. That might just be…

Wood wrote a novel for Orgy of the Dead, which I need to find because, I mean, how do you turn that into a book? (So much for finding a copy; there's one on Amazon for $600. Somebody reprint that, please.) Anyway, Criswell plays Satan (aka Emperor of the Night), and Fawn Silver as…

Groan. Back to reality. Oh, well, a Monday off means a short week following, anyway. So I (surprise) didn't really do anything this long weekend, even by my modest goals. A new anime season has started, so I watched the first episodes of like 10 new shows. I actually liked nearly all of them…

Oops, woke up late and have to go. I did finish Godzilla Singular Point yesterday. I still really liked it, but I can see why some others were not as satisfied. Hopefully they get a second season and can please everyone. Anyway, more on that tomorrow. Have a great day, everyone.

Sorry to do a whole week of Godzilla Singular Point, but I'm really digging it. They are doing the Shin Godzilla thing with the Big G, with him evolving through stages. (Toho always did it's metamorphosing monsters.)  This is the first stage, barely seen. The end of Chapter 10, which I finished yesterday, introduces…