Swamp of the Lost Souls (aka El Pantanos de las Animas) (1957) – This reminded me more than a little of The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956): both movies are 95% Western soap-opera (Swamp is a Mexican-made, Spanish-language one), with 5% extraneous monster movie thrown in. Beast had a bad man-in-suit dinosaur; Swamp has a…
A new edition of The Golden Age of Crap.
I’ve been working on this, off and on, for so long that it’s embarrassing. But I’m putting finishing touches on the cover (of which this may or may not be the final version) and the formatting right now.
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
Three up for sale in my Etsy shop… …and the rest from my sketchbook.
Movies Seen Recently: The Burrowers, Saltwater Atomic Shark, Clockwise
The Burrowers (2008) – The Searchers meets Tremors: A posse quickly forms to pursue and rescue a family of settlers supposedly abducted by Indians, but as they try to track their quarry, they find that it ain’t Indians they’re after… This kind of movie was the biggest casualty of the collapse of DVD rental: A…
Movies Seen Recently: Iron Monkey, Terminator: Dark Fate, Chariot
Iron Monkey (1993) – The titular Iron Monkey is a Robin-Hoodesque kung fu master waging masked wire-fu war after-hours against corrupt government officials; during daylight hours he’s a kindly local doctor who charges only what can be afforded. When another kung fu master-doctor comes to town to take possession of some shipped parcels and gets…