What movies have you seen recently?

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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

How was it?

An excellent movie and if you haven't heard by now, this new one could start a new trilogy of this franchise.

The Boneyard Collection (2008) on Tubi TV (link to film)

Have you heard of Forrest J Ackerman? He was why I added this to my Tubi TV watch list a while ago. He played host to three short films, an anthology of comedy horror. He was ninety-one when he filmed his part.

Cry of the Mummy was maybe my favorite. The mummy is quite funny, except when he follows his agent's advice and tries stand up comedy. He is not funny at all.

Although the director list Boogie with the Undead as the first story, I believe it was the third. One of the the reoccurring jokes in the film is then the sound does not sync up with the image, not even close! The concept is funny. I did not laugh out loud though.

Her Morbid Desires was also funny. Late in the film, there are many small parts for notables. Ray Harryhausen, Elvira (Cassandra Peterson), Tippi Hedren, Robert Loggia, and Barbara Steele are a few. I don't think I've ever seen a Barbara Steele film that was not Italian and her lines were not dubbed in English by another actor. So I got to hear her natural British accent. Note, I understand she has been in films where her voice was not dubbed over, like Roger Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum. So I guess I have heard her natural voice... Actually, I have watched interviews with her as well, so I've heard her natural voice many times. Still, I've mostly have seen her in Italian horror films from the sixties.

The Tingler (1959, 24 days before my birth)

William Castle film with Vincent Price. When frighten, a parasite quickly (very quickly) grows over the spin and if the person does not scream, it breaks the spine.

I remember watching this on television with my mom, and the rest of my family (I suppose) around 1967 or 1968. Too bad TV Guide is not archived. I would love to research some of these things so I would have a better sense of when things happened. I remember imagining there was a Tingler under our couch and I was hesitant standing up. I found the movie scary at the time. Now I find it entertaining.

Site 13.

A psychologist and former nun is asked to return to one of her former patients, a professor, who had been comatose for ten years. She learns what he had unleashed years before when viewing a long lost video he and his students had made.
Very low budget film. but not too shabby.

Treasure Island, 1950

Disney used to make some great movies. This was one of them.

Last night, in honor of Donald Trump and his MAGA followers, we watched:

Idiocracy [2006]
<=>"The Future Is A No Brainer"



Fun movie. 'o'RECOMMENDED'o' ^{However, as a role model for society, not so much.}

The Muppet Movie

House of Frankenstein

I think I had the wrong expectations going in, but I didn't hate it. It's better than Son of Dracula. The acting and production values are above average despite the plot seeming kind of thrown together. Mainly needed a clearer Frankenstein focus.

no political commentary here but...LOL!

Godzilla Minus One (2023)

Watched it on Netflix with the English dubbed dialog. The dubbing acting was very good.
I thought the movie as a whole was very good.
The special effects are very good, and they were not done by ILM.

The hairs on the back of my neck stood up up when at a crucial part in the movie the soundtrack was this theme. If you love the original Gojira (1954) or the Americanized version Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956), perhaps you will get goosebumps too. I had the MP3 of this theme on my computer at work, and played it every day for several months. Absolutely WONDERFUL!

Now I'm going to watch again, in Japanese with subtitles.

I so regret not seeing this in the theater.

Godzilla Minus One was incredible. Glad it made good money. Wish it had made even more.

the 1971 [filmed in 1970] Andromeda Strain. gripping. how it ended up with a G rating i'll never know. but director Robert Wise had a rule that he'd only direct G-rated movies. he must've had some pull with CARA.

Last night, while sipping some Redemption wry rye, I watched:

Gaslight [1940]
<=>"Love and Fear Filled the House on Angel Street!"



A movie about gaslighting.

Not necessarily some kind of theme going here.

And if pcgoblin's face has rolling eyes and a knowing smirk...well surely that is just coincidence.

Rolling eyes? No. Smirking chuckle? Yes