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10.27.09 by Widge @ 10:13 pm  Looking back at classic horror movies in a circuitous route that I shan't bore you with, I ran across this third film version of The Bat, which was based on the Broadway play. The tagline was "When it flies, someone dies!" So you can pretty much guess where this is going. It stars Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead (who you probably best know as Endora from Bewitched), and Darla Hood (aka Darla from The Little Rascals) in her final film role. Categorized as: Movies
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10.27.09 by Widge @ 3:25 pm  So I've started my own personal Halloween film festival...in which I park myself in front of the television with my laptop and watch horror movies and other such bits up until Halloween. One of the DVDs I grabbed earlier in the year in anticipation of checking it out during this fantastic time of the year is Monsters Crash the Pajama Party. And it is amazing. The "villain" of the piece is The Mad Doctor. We know he's The Mad Doctor because, well, just take a look at his lab coat in the pic there. Yes. I think you might have an inkling of what's in store for you. The "feature" is short as it's just an excuse to get a bunch of young ladies on screen in what passed for skimpy sleepwear in 1965 and have them run around a haunted house chased by people in terrible monster costumes. And that was, in turn, just an excuse to set up the live spookshow part of the evening--because when this was shown in cinemas, at a certain point, the monsters would come off the screen into the theater and snatch up a girl from the audience then drag her back onto the screen for their diabolical experiments. The whole thing was made up of locally acquired actors and an audience plant--but it's like a William Castle film--something fun as hell that I'd like to see continued. Some groups do still put on a spookshow--here in Atlanta there's a group, for example. Categorized as: Movies
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10.26.09 by Widge @ 7:00 pm  Last year's "Scary Women Double Feature" led me to seek out yet another pair of films that would chill the hearts of men and make them fear for their very souls. Because as we've said: zombies, we can handle. Giant monsters, sure thing. Sea monsters, easy. Vampires and werewolves, check and double check. But put men up against women and we lose. Every single time. Except--sometimes--in the movies. But I shall say no more. Enjoy this double feature of Cat-Women of the Moon and Queen of Outer Space, both cautionary tales of what we might have to contend with when we become a more space-faring race than we are now! Surely NASA has contingency plans for these scenarios... Categorized as: Movies
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10.26.09 by Widge @ 3:40 am  This just might be the most awesome thing you see this week. And it's your mental sorbet for today because the sheer amount of win will steel you against the work week that is to come. It's John Carpenter's The Thing but "fully sweded," i.e. remade in the spirit of the film Be Kind Rewind, i.e. done on the cheap and hilarious. And, sadly, better than Carpenter's recent filmography. Categorized as: Movies
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10.26.09 by Widge @ 2:33 am  So I was thinking about franchises, seeing as how last year at this time we posted the full array of original Mummy franchise trailers. And when poking around for another franchise to do that with, this one leapt out, spiky bits and all. So in another dedication going out to Rox of Spazhouse, here's the full array of trailers for the Phantasm franchise. I must admit, the first trailer spends so much time asking what the film is, you start to wonder if the questions or rhetorical or if it's pleading with the audience for an answer. Categorized as: Movies
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