Monster of the Day

Following the Fest was Sunday for all the people who can hang around. Sandy re-showed the Man From UNCLE episode that coincidentally guest starred both of the pre-Star Trek William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, not to mention also Werner Klemperer. It's pretty great. Next we watched the obscure oddity Sound of Horror, known primarily…

Few monsters this year. Sandy followed Horror and Hamsters with The Battles of Chief Pontiac (1952), a cheapie pre-American Revolution epic with Lon Chaney Jr as the titular, peace-seeking American Indian. There's a James Arness-y style frontier hero who seeks the same, but all is thwarted, not by the British, honest and beleagured, but…

We opened this year's spring T-Fest with The Brute Man, a neat efficient semi-horror starring the tragic Rondo Hatton.  Next we got our first monster film, the extremely weird anthology flick Horror and Hamsters. It delivers exactly what the title promises; short (if eventually not short enough) vignettes of horror with dollops of black…

Friday night continued with Fly Away Baby, a film from the Torchy Blaine B-movie series. Torchy was, as GalaxyJane noted (she provided the film from the set of them she owned), "Lois Lane who never met Clark Kent." It's weird, because we know there were never strong, spunky female characters until the current generations…

So, anyway, T(ween) Fest 2021. A roaring success, in that we had basically everyone return (who was just regularly available) after cancelling one event last year and having limited attendance--for obvious reasons--last fall. Back to normal, baby. Apparently the Houston Group of myself, Jeff and Kirk and Patty missed the very first unofficial flick…

I really wanted to see Godzilla vs Kong before I left for Texas, so that if people mentioned it I wouldn't be the guy frantically shushing them because I hadn't seen it yet. It was pretty good, but frustrating because with a little work it could have been much better. Just a little tweaking…

Sorry for the blurry photo, there are weirdly few good still of this statue. Still, I think you get a sense of how cool it is. It's pretty massive, too, maybe 16 to 18 inches tall. I used to have it on my desk at the library, since that is in a secure room.…

  This again is sitting around my house somewhere, unopened. It's a very traditional Abomination from the Hulk comics. I never got the opposing Hulk figure; Bowen statues (this is about 18 inches tall, a pretty hefty size) sell out pretty quickly. On the other hand, they will never lose value and you can…