Last Monster/Horror/Sci-Fi Movie/Show You Watched

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The Gore Gore Girls-1972 (ARROW Video-2018 bluray)

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Evils of the Night, 1985 - What looks like a Labor Day weekend bacchanal at a small man-made lake turns serious, when the young partyers begin disappearing two at a time.

Aliens John Carradine, Tina Louise, and Julie Newmar, aided by earthlings Neville Brand and Aldo Ray, menace the young people featuring Amber Lynn.


This must have been made on the change found in sofa cushions.  The first time director made a film that should be required viewing for all film classes - it is that bad.  (Be sure to watch the soundless outtakes.  Take note of the pain in the veteran actors' eyes.) 

The aliens' space ship is shown in un-matching stock footage and their small transporter is clearly an Autoclave.  In a final scene, traffic can be seen driving through the background.  The title doesn't seem to make much sense, except much of the movie takes place during the night.


Fun to watch for the nudity (mucho boobage and a little full-frontal) and the "now, I, will, read, my, line" acting.  Don't tackle this one unless you can stay awake through anything.

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Evils of the Night, 1985 - What looks like a Labor Day weekend bacchanal at a small man-made lake turns serious, when the young partyers begin disappearing two at a time.

Aliens John Carradine, Tina Louise, and Julie Newmar, aided by earthlings Neville Brand and Aldo Ray, menace the young people featuring Amber Lynn.


This must have been made on the change found in sofa cushions.  The first time director made a film that should be required viewing for all film classes - it is that bad.  (Be sure to watch the soundless outtakes.  Take note of the pain in the veteran actors' eyes.) 

The aliens' space ship is shown in un-matching stock footage and their small transporter is clearly an Autoclave.  In a final scene, traffic can be seen driving through the background.  The title doesn't seem to make much sense, except much of the movie takes place during the night.


Fun to watch for the nudity (mucho boobage and a little full-frontal) and the "now, I, will, read, my, line" acting.  Don't tackle this one unless you can stay awake through anything.

At least half of the young victims cast was made up of '80's porn stars of the time, including a young Amber Lynn. 

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Christmas Evil, 1980 / A.K.A You Better Watch Out - Christmas 1947.  Six-year-old Harry Stadling idolizes Santa Claus until he catches him having sex with his mother - fadeout.  Fade in - thirty-three years later we find Harry living alone in a house filled to the brim with Christmas decorations, toys and Santa figures - wearing red pajamas and humming Christmas carols.  He spies on all the neighborhood kids and keeps ledgers on who is naughty and who is nice.  He works in the Jolly Dream Toy Company and obsesses over quality control.  In short, Harry is weird.

In an effort to purify what Harry considers a world that no longer honors Christmas properly, he sets out to punish all the naughty.


Moves slowly and has long segments without dialogue.  Lingers too long on some images.  Could have benefited from a little tighter editing.

One thing I really like about this little Christmas horror is all the Christmas references.  It doesn't just make mention of Christmas and then go off to be your average slasher film.  This movie keeps Christmas on display throughout.  Lawn decorations everywhere.  I've never seen so many Santa suits in one place.  There is red in almost every frame.


It could have been better - but a great film to have playing on the tube while you wrap presents or as background atmosphere for the office Christmas party.

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Ash vs. The Evil Dead Season 3.  I'm going to miss that show terribly.  Season 4 would have been insane and glorious.

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Shock Waves-1977

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Terrifier-2018

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Terrifier-2018

Okay, what's your take on this...worthwhile?

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Shock Waves-1977

I saw Shock Waves at my home town drive-in in 1977. What a great low budget Horror film. Cushing is killer in this flick!



Still the best in the Nazi Zombie subgenre.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1931 - Frederic March portrays Robert Louis Stevenson's medical experimenter and his evil other half in this classic telling of the oft-made story.

One of the most re-told stories in the English language, along with the likes of Dickens' A Christmas Carol and Jacobs' The Monkey's Paw.  I'm sure there are earlier iterations in Greek mythology.  But these are the stories I most often relate back to when I recognize the familiar plots within newer re-interpretations under other titles.  Maybe that is because I first encountered them as literature.  (I read a lot as a kid.)


Not a bad version of this old chestnut.  The histrionic hand-wringing in the overly dramatic love scenes is easily excused if you concentrate on the very effective makeup transformations and the contrast between the staid posture of the good Dr. and the wonderfully animalistic physicality of his primitive alter ego.

My appreciation for this film has grown over the years.  Still a good watch after nearly 9 decades. 


(While the 2018 Warner Archives DVD gives us a great print of the movie, it's about time they did a full restoration (there are a few frames yet that could be improved) and an all-out Collectors' Edition Blu-Ray with all the bells and whistles - like multiple commentaries, a mail-in poster, etc.)

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Fire Maidens From Outer Space(1956)
It(2017)
Hunchback Of Notre Dame(1923)

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre-The Beginning-2006

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre-The Beginning-2006

You're a braver man than me! I've almost watched this several times but thought better of it. Any good?

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Return of the Living Dead, Part II, 1988 - Return of the Living Dead reprised in a half-finished housing project.

James Karen and Thom Mathews appear even though they died in Part I.  Alan Trautman has a very brief cameo as Tarman.  Lots of frenetic running and screaming.

The 2018 BLU-Ray is the first time this movie has appeared on disc with its original soundtrack.  Before this, fans would have to go back to their VHS copies to see this as it appeared in the theaters.


Part II goes all out for "humor" and ruins the sweet balance between horror and humor struck by Part I.  Too bad it is not successful at being funny.


Glad to finally have this Blu-Ray.  Now I have Night through Return Part 3.  I consider my collection complete.  I lost all interest in Living Dead/Cannibal Zombie pictures after that.  If they never make another living/walking/brain-eating dead movie again it will be fine with me.  Unlike many others, I think it IS possible to wear a theme out.

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I'm going to violate precedent here and recommend a western movie.  Hear me out.

The Hateful Eight, 2015 - It's the dead of winter in Wyoming about a decade after the Civil War.  A bounty hunter is transporting a female prisoner by stagecoach to Red Rock where she is to be hung.  Because of the severe weather conditions, the Bounty Hunter is compelled to accept two more passengers.  They are all forced to take shelter at the next way station, where they are met not by the normal proprietors, but by four strangers who claim to have been left in charge.

What follows is a wonderful, claustrophobic tale of intrigue and mayhem reminiscent of classic old mysteries like "And Then There Were None" where no one may be what they seem - but with a modern twist.  This is a Quinton Tarantino film.  It is bloody enough for lovers of slash & gore movies.

And how is this for a cast:  Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, Bruce Dern, etc.


Give this one a try.  You just might decide that there is one western you like after all.