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

[LugosiFan25]

Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)
Revenge of the Creature (1955)

[Monsters For Sale]

The Corpse Grinders, 1971 - The story of the Lotus Cat Food Company.

Perfect drive-in movie for a hot date.  The kind you don't mind missing during all the necking.  Ed Wood-quality acting.

Best possible picture and sound in the new 2017 BLU-Ray. The new disc also has nice extras.


(I'd rather re-read Ambrose Bierce's short story "Oil of Dog".)

[marsattacks666]

The Corpse Grinders, 1971 - The story of the Lotus Cat Food Company.

Perfect drive-in movie for a hot date.  The kind you don't mind missing during all the necking.  Ed Wood-quality acting.

Best possible picture and sound in the new 2017 BLU-Ray. The new disc also has nice extras.


(I'd rather re-read Ambrose Bierce's short story "Oil of Dog".)

I own the IMAGE dvd. Fun, weird film. R.I.P., Ted V. Mikels

[Monsters For Sale]

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, 1964 - This badly titled tale actually takes place on a train where five strangers are joined by a sixth, Dr. Shreck (Peter Cushing), who passes the time by telling everyone's fortunes - even his own.

Not a bad little movie.  Directed by Freddie Francis and starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Donald Sutherland, Max Adrian and Michael Gough.  Nice tight film at only 93 minutes.

[Monsters For Sale]

Groundhog Day, 1993 - Déjà vu  all over again.

Bill Murray & Harold Ramis' best work.

My idea of fantasy fun - you can keep the castles and flying unicorns.

[Mord]

Groundhog Day, 1993 - Déjà vu  all over again.

Bill Murray & Harold Ramis' best work.

My idea of fantasy fun - you can keep the castles and flying unicorns.

Adam, have you seen the recent film, "Happy Death Day"? It's a kind of horror version of "Groundhog Day". A typical egocentric teenager has to relive her murder, until she figures out how to change things up. Good fun throughout.

[Monsters For Sale]

Adam, have you seen the recent film, "Happy Death Day"? It's a kind of horror version of "Groundhog Day". A typical egocentric teenager has to relive her murder, until she figures out how to change things up. Good fun throughout.

Sounds like something I will want to see.  Thanks.

Funny, I was sitting here feeling sad that we lost Harold Ramis in 2014.  I wish I could tell him how much "Groundhog Day" means to me.  It is one of those few films that always leaves me feeling that I have just watched a perfect movie.

It has the requisite humor for a comedy, the tension based on trying to make a change (any change) to break the cycle, reckless behavior of adolescent wish-fulfillment, longing, romance - and a main character that is good enough for you to want him to succeed and bad enough to make his repeated failures still be funny.  A main character that goes through a believable personal transformation as profound as Scrooge.

And what other "comedy" has the guts kill off a sad, old homeless man not once but several times - and play it for all the pathos it is worth?

Maybe, I am just an old softy.  But this movie touches me very deeply each time I watch it.  I feel a little richer every February 2nd.

Thank you, Harold.

[zombiehorror]

Blade Runner 2049 3D~Cool sequel
Ghost in the Shell 3D (2017)~Decent sci-fi/action flick, made for a great double feature

As with most of these 3D post conversions there was lots of depth of field but no major pop outs.

[Monsters For Sale]

Tales of Terror, 1962 -Three doses of Poe according to Roger Corman.

          1.  Morella - Dad and daughter reunite, unpleasantly, after many years apart.

          2.  The Black Cat/The Cask of Amantillado/ The Telltale Heart all mixed up - Done to great, b-r-o-a-d comic effect.

          3.  The Facts In the Case of M. Valdemar - "Flatliners" for the steampunk generation.

All segments star Vincent Price.  Segment 2 adds Peter Lorre.  Segment 3 adds Basil Rathbone.

The Kino Lorber BLU-Ray has two commentaries and a short interview with Roger Corman.

[Memphremagog]

Killdozer(1974)
The Devil Commands(1941)
Terror By Night(1946)

[Lunkenstein]

THE VALLEY OF GWANGI (1969) - in HD on TCM.  Oh boy, this looked great. Have to get the Blu Ray now.
THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN (1942) on Blu-ray. Sweet!
THE MUMMY (1932) on Blu-ray. Looks and sounds spectacular. Love seeing the crisp detail on Karloff.

[Monsters For Sale]

THE VALLEY OF GWANGI (1969) - in HD on TCM.  Oh boy, this looked great. Have to get the Blu Ray now.
THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN (1942) on Blu-ray. Sweet!
THE MUMMY (1932) on Blu-ray. Looks and sounds spectacular. Love seeing the crisp detail on Karloff.

The nicest thing about big screen TV's and Blu-Ray is that owners of all this great original material finally have been given the impetus to rescue and resurrect these minor classics for the nostalgic old timers like me - and to give them new life, and brand new audiences.

Great time to be a movie fan.

[Lunkenstein]

So true! I'm loving my collection more and more and sharing it with others.

[zombiehorror]

The nicest thing about big screen TV's and Blu-Ray is that owners of all this great original material finally have been given the impetus to rescue and resurrect these minor classics for the nostalgic old timers like me - and to give them new life, and brand new audiences.

Great time to be a movie fan.

I really don't understand VHS collecting, well not so much the collecting part but the watching.  If a film isn't on DVD or Bluray sure but otherwise any widescreen theatrical release is reduced to pan 'n' scan rubbish; until you get into the DVD era and they started releasing a few titles as widescreen editions.

[Monsters For Sale]

I really don't understand VHS collecting, well not so much the collecting part but the watching.  If a film isn't on DVD or Bluray sure but otherwise any widescreen theatrical release is reduced to pan 'n' scan rubbish; until you get into the DVD era and they started releasing a few titles as widescreen editions.

Some collectors collect old 8mm excerpts from the movies - even though they never watch them anymore.  They were made during the time in their life that they are most nostalgic for.

Maybe the same can be said for VHS collectors.  Still-sealed copies (never to be opened) are highly sought. 

Collectors are strange critters.

Surprisingly, there are still quite a few older people who have functioning VCRs and see no sense in buying any new technology for current entertainment they do not find very entertaining. I have a friend who is a Bingo addict.  When I finally got rid of all my perfect condition, plastic-in-place-except-for-the-bottoms VHS tapes, I gave them to her to give away to her Bingo friends.  She said they swamped her table to get my old movies.