Monthly Archives: May 2022

Friday Night At The Home Drive-In: Monster a Go-Go (1965)

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Poster for Monster a Go-Go (1965)Monster a Go-Go (1965) by #BillRebane
with a little help from #HerschellGordonLewis
w/ #JuneTravis

“An astronaut went up – a “guess what” came down!”

“The picture that comes complete with a 10-foot-tall monster to give you the wim-wams!”

“You’ve Never Seen a Motion Picture Like This — Thank Goodness!”

#Horror #SciFi #NotQuiteClassicCinema
#FridayNightAtTheHomeDriveIn

I had never seen Monster a Go-Go (1965) before last week. I’ve enjoyed other movies by Wisconsin filmmaker Bill Rebane, including The Giant Spider Invasion (1975), Blood Harvest (1987) and The Alpha Incident (1978). Monster a Go-Go was his first attempt at a feature film. He began shooting in 1961 but never quite finished it. Later he sold it to Herschell Gordon Lewis, who needed a second film for a double feature with Moonshine Mountain (1964). Continue reading →

Friday The 13th At The Home Drive-In: Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

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Poster for Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) by #TomMcLoughlin w/ #ThomMathews #JenniferCookeJenniferCooke

While Jason returns to Crystal Lake for another killing spree, Tommy must overcome his fear of the masked killer that has haunted him for years, and find a way to stop him.

“Kill Or Be Killed“

#Horror #Slasher #Jason #FridayThe13th
#FridayNightAtTheHomeDriveIn
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As I may have mentioned a while back, I was annoyed when Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) came out. I had thought that Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) had been a fitting ending for the series, as I may have mentioned in another previous blog post.

And then when A New Beginning began with a couple of assholes digging up Jason Voorhees’ grave, and he was lying inside, looking fairly intact, I started to get angry. He had been chopped up into a million pieces at the end of Part 4, hadn’t he? Continue reading →

Friday Night At The Home Drive-In: Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970)

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Poster for Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970)Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970) by #AlAdamson
w/ #JohnCarradine #RobertDix #VickiVolante #JenniferBishop

Earthlings leave on a space mission to destroy flesh creatures of a prehistoric lost planet.

“Far-Out, Frightening Terror!”
“You’ll scream yourself into a state of shock!“

#Horror #SciFi
#NotQuiteClassicCinema
#FridayNightAtTheHomeDriveIn

It seems like I’m (re)visiting the weird and wonderful world of Al Adamson at least once a month these days. As I may have mentioned before, I have quite a few of Adamson’s movies in my collection – well, now I have almost everything, thanks to The Masterpiece Collection put out by Severin. But prior to that, I had collected quite a few VHS tapes and DVDs. One of those tapes, which I purchased at a dying video store after an all night drive to Edmonton, was Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970). Continue reading →

Friday Night At The Home Drive-In: The Land Unknown (1957)

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Poster for The Land Unknown (1957)The Land Unknown (1957) by #VirgilWVogel

w/#JockMahoney #ShirleyPatterson

Three men and a woman crash-land in a deep crater in Antarctica, where they find a prehistoric world.

“Lost and Terrorized in Prehistoric Time.”

#SciFi #Horror #Fantasy
#Dinosaurs
#NotQuiteClassicCinema
#FridayNightAtTheHomeDriveIn

I always loved movies about lost worlds and dinosaurs, but The Land Unknown (1957) is not a movie I remember seeing when I was  young. King Kong (1933) I remember, and I watched it whenever it was on TV. Later on I added King Kong (1976) to the regular watch list as well. It’s possible I saw The Land Unknown at some point, but if I did it didn’t make a lasting impression. Continue reading →