What movies have you seen recently?

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Wonder Woman films , first is average at best , second film a waste of time

Last night I watched:

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein [1948]
<=>"Jeepers! The creepers are after Bud and Lou!"



Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula wants to put a new brain into Frankenstein's monster and Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolfman wants to stop him.

By the way, the brain Dracula wants to use is Lou Costello's!

Good movie.

Trivia: This movie is the second and final time Lugosi played Count Dracula.

This morning, steamed on Peacock TV.

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

A classic, and the version of the monster that the Aurora Frankenstein model was based on.

The Raven (1935)

Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. Like any movie titled The Raven, the connection to the Edgar Allen Poe poem is thin. Although there is a 2012 version I have not seen.

I have both on DVD, so I have a tiny bit of guilt using up bandwidth to stream it. On the other hand, I didn't have to use my DVD/Blu-Ray player and use electricity for that. But mostly, the movies were just there, and I'm lazy. So, I clicked on them.

I use to think Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was the low point in the Universal classic monsters, but it is actually a good movie.

I watched two RiffTrax movies this morning.

Night of the Lepus (1972)

One of the Nature vs Humans films of the 1970s. Rabbits. Giant mutant Rabbits. Not terrible, but not Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds either. It did not star Tippi Hedren, but it did have Janet Leigh (Psycho).

Octaman (1971)

Low budget. $250,000.
Make up artist Rick Baker's first job. He designed the Octaman's suit. He was 21 years old. Very low budget.
$1000 of the budget went to Rick Baker as payment.

Both horror films were made funny by Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy. Octaman was from a live event.

The Killer Inside Me.

A small town cop with a boy scout reputation indulges in his hidden dark side after he becomes involved with a prostitute and her blackmail scheme. Very good dark crime drama.

In light of recent news. I watched "all eyez on me" a biopic about Tupac Shakur his rise to fame and eventual death. This is my first time watching it

The movie itself was only just passable, the writing really let's it down. Some of the dialogue I found laughable when it wasn't meant to be a joke

I don't regret watching it though, seeing the behind the scenes of some of Tupacs greatest hits was a pleasurable experience. Even if it may have been overdramatised for the production value

6/10 I'm glad I watched it, but will likely never watch it again

The Creator

War of the Worlds (1953)

To be honest, I'm still watching this. It's on Comet TV. I've seen it several times before over that last fifty-five years. It's a great film. The special effects are flawless, in my opinion. My can be flawed, but I believe it won an Oscar for visual effects. It was produced by George Pal, famous for his Puppetoons. I did not realize that Cecil B. DeMille was the executive producer. He is uncredited in the film. Also uncredited was Marcel Delgado. He created the miniatures. The physical aliens are the one weakness in the special effects. They looks stiff. Although, I always liked that the mechanical eye echoed the creature's eye with red, green, and blue lenses.



(Aren't the machines beautifully designed?)

They Live. One of John Carpenter's best.

We lost Piper too soon.

Saw X

Well now. I guess I'm glad I didn't see the other saws.