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December 30, 2007

Monster Movie Music a' Go Go

monster_movie_music.jpg When The Essential Ghoul's Record Shelf went on an apparently permanent hiatus back in 2005, I wondered where I was going to get my regular fix of Incredibly Strange Music. So now, after 2 years of searching through the blogospheric wilderness, I'm happy to report that I've finally found something even better: Music From the Monster Movies, a weblog devoted to unearthing unearthly tunage from the golden age of psychotronic film.

There's a whole lot of great music here, including a few gems I've been trying to find for a long, long time, like the Del-Aires Zombie Stomp, from the drive-in classic, Horror of Party Beach, so if you're a fan of cool and strange music, you owe it to yourself to click on over for an extended browse.

[Link: Monster Movie Music]

Posted by MrBaliHai at 10:16 AM |

December 29, 2007

Cine Psicotronico Mexicano

The 1960 film, La Nave de los Monstruos (AKA: Ship of Monsters), has pretty much everything a Mexican scifi/horror/kiddie film should have: the ultra-hot Lorena Velazquez playing a bloodsucking babe from Venus, a Martian with a giant, pulsating rubber brain, a Cyclops named Ook, a really lame talking skeleton puppet, and their fabulously cheesy robot, Tor, who in this touching scene at the movie's finale, flies back into outer space in his rocket ship while crooning a romantic duet with his newfound love, a cantina jukebox!

Man, they just don't make 'em like this anymore.

[Link: Tor and the Jukebox]
[Link: Film review]

Posted by MrBaliHai at 5:58 PM |

December 19, 2007

From the Darkest Depths of the Cinema Graveyard

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Be-fezzed mad scientist, Uncle Pete, and his Lucha-masked sidekick, El Vato, bring you a World of Twisted and Absurd Audiovisual Oddities and The Forgotten Children of the Silver Screen in every online episode of The Dark Vault of Public Domain [Link]. They get mega-bonus points for playing a clip from my favorite Japanese New Wave band, The Plastics [Link].

Watching these clips reminded me of my own foray into public-access horror-hosting back in the early '90s, Chester's Chillers [Link]. I'll have to check into getting some episodes up on YouScrewed.

Posted by MrBaliHai at 6:57 PM |

December 17, 2007

The Invisible Hand of Alan Smithee

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The Invisible Hand of Alan Smithee [Link] explores a very particular cinematic ouevre , one in which the director has successfully petitioned the Film Directors Guild of America to have their name removed from the credits, and replaced with a pseudonym.

Other fine sub-sites to be found here includeThe Invisible '50s Sci-Fi Page [Link], a compendium of mid-20th Century SF film reviews, and the Originals Vs. Remakes Page [Link], which provides a handy side-by-side comparison between classic films and their often inferior remakes.

Posted by MrBaliHai at 6:58 PM |