Week of September 24 to Sept 30

Sunday, September 24
Criss Angel – Halloween Special

     I always enjoy Criss’ stuff. It is truly amazing. And I love the fact that at the end of the final illusion, his mom and girlfriend freak out. “I will never come to one of these again!) his mom shrieks.

Monday, September, 25, 2006
Masters of Horror – Tobe Hooper – Dance of the Dead – 2006

     Robert Englund! And he does a GREAT job, but there are too many DAMN shaky F’ing cuts!!!!  I hate them things. And the story takes too long to develop.

Last 10 minutes have a fair degree of impact. Enough to make this probably the third or fourth best episode. Still nothing nearly as good as Carpenter’s Cigarette Burns, IMHO.

No subs, but 2 commentaries. The first was Tobe Hooper and DVD Producer Perry Martin – surprisingly and disappointingly dull. Martin just asks a bunch of softball questions. The second one is with Richard Christian (RC) Matheson, the son of famous author Richard Matheson. He did screenplay from this father’s story, which is pretty cool. This commentary was a little more interesting, but still kinda dull.

There is the usual plateful of extras here, with interviews with everyone on the planet. It includes the standard “Working with a master” that was less informative than usual.

Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Stay Alive – 2006

     The rumble sound of the controller is pretty effective sound. Fairly creepy. Pity that’s the best part of the deal. Well, actually, the acting is pretty good too. Unfortunately, it’s a tired story. A video game that kills, ohhhhh, how original.   <-  sarcasm

Boobage here would have been nice. Lots of blood, but no real gore.

Closed caption’d. Commentary by William Brent Bell (Director and writer) and Matthew Peterman. 25 day shoot.

Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Something Weird Video’s Kinky Triple Feature
One Shocking Moment – 1965

     Directed by Ted V. Mikels. Stand by for cheap!

I prophesy that it’s less than 15 minutes until “hubby” becomes abusive.
Nope, lost that bet. Unless you count being a wolf abusive.
Hmmmm, how about THEM big naturals.
Ahhh, it’s a morality tale – it all works out in the end. Don’t you just love a happy ending?

The Abnormal Female – 1969

     An opening montage of orgies, we just jump right into an S&M whipping. This one is pretty much nothing but softcore. Lots of tongue wrestling and big natural boobies. Which is better than a kick in the head.

Maidens of Fetish Street – 1966 – aka The Girls of F Street

     Talk, talk, talk.  A Creepy morality tale of bondage. And the ending is kinda icky. Definitely the weakest of three.

Thursday, September 28, 2006
BestBuy Exclusive – Classic SF
Tarantula – 1955

     From the man who gave us The Incredible Shrinking Man & 2 of the 3 Creature from the Black Lagoons (Jack Arnold, who had 33 titles to his credit in IMDB). Plus John Agar (always a painful treat) and Leo G Carroll (old man in a ton of stuff).

The trailer was in bad shape, but the print was much better. Subtitles are the only other extra. Still, this is a good transfer of a “classic” flick. Hey, at least I could watch this one with the kids.

The Mole People – 1956

     Virgil Vogel directed (usually, he was an editor, like on This Island Earth). When your two main stars are John Agar and Hugh Beaumont (The Dad on Leave It To Beaver), you can understand why this was a great pick for MST3K. If you’ve ever wanted to see this without Mike and the bots, this is a great transfer.

Friday, September 29, 2006
Incredible Shrinking Man – 1955

     Excellent flick. This is an amazing movie, and not nearly as well known as it ought to be. I think it is almost a perfect movie. It has pathos, action, philosophy. Everything but boobage.

The Monolith Monsters – 1957

     This is the movie I bought this box set for. I’ve had this movie in my list for years! It stars Grant Williams again (Incredible Shrinking Man, above). What an intriguing concept. A new kind of rock from space expands and multiplies when it comes in contact with water. Pretty good affects for the year I was born too.

Saturday, September 30, 2006
Monster on the Campus – 1958

     Another Jack Arnold (Tarantula and Incredible Shrink Man’s director). It stars one UGLY fish. This is pretty well done for a serious “B” movie. I like the way he slowly realizes that HE’S the killer.