Saw a Takashi Miike picture called The Great Yokai War. "Yokai" is a Japanese term for monsters from folklore, as opposed to the more familiar kaiju. It's a kids' picture, about a young boy from Tokyo sent out to live in the countryside with his older sister and his intermittently senile grandfather. When a vengeful spirit appears, the boy gets caught up in a war between warring groups of yokai and must find his courage to become the "Kirin Rider", the hero who will set everything to rights. It's not a bad picture - nothing deep, but an amusing story. Some of the yokai are really trippy, Japanese folklore can get pretty "out there", apparently.
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It only took me eight years, but I finally saw Bird Box. Wow! I really thought it was well done. We don’t see the aliens(?) or understand their agenda. This puts us in the “same boat” as all their victims. If you haven’t seen it, I recommend it. Only available on Netflix.
After the funeral of a old friend who died in a car accident, former school friends Harris, Kira, and Sid break into the local cemetery after dark, and after Sid reads a mysterious incantation he finds on one of the nearby tombstones, they dance on the graves. Soon, the three of them find themselves haunted by three different ghosts whose graves they desecrated.
A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959): Roger Corman made low budget B-films, but often quite good low buget B-films, and this is one of those. From Wikipedia: "[It] is set in the West Coast beatnick culture of the late 1950s. The film, produced on a $50,000 budget, was shot in five days and shares many of the low-budget filmmaking aesthetics commonly associated with Corman's work. The film is a dark comic satire about a dimwitted, impressionable young busboy at a Bohemian café who is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor when he accidentally kills his landlady's cat and covers its body in clay to hide the evidence. When he is pressured to create similar work, he becomes a serial murderer."
JD DeLuzio > Jeff of Earth-JApril 4, 2026 at 12:40am
I PVRd that one. Don't know when I'll see it.
Just finished watching the interview from space. They've passed the halfway point to the moon.
The Earth Dies Screaming (1964), a British film, a little over an hour long. Most of the human race has been killed in a gas attack. A handful of survivors struggle to defeat an invasion of sluggish "row-butt" spacemen. Not great, but not bad, either. Worth a look if you have the time.
Bucket of Blood was definitely worth it, as far as Corman pictures go. It takes some obvious inspiration from House of Wax, with the beat accoutrements mentioned by Jeff of Earth-J. It also functions, very loosely, as a kind of first draft of Little Shop of Horrors. I need a break in the viewing of For All Mankind (we've finished the third season), and the news, which has been an infuriating blend of bleak and idiotic.
EBIRAH, HORROR OF THE DEEP: Haven't seen this one since 2014 (when the DVD was released), but it came up on TMC last week, and in a clear case of "video redundancy" I snagged it. Tracy left on her annual vacation this morning, so Ebirah was the last movie we watched together until her return. (Expect more of this nature in the week to come.) We usually watch it in the midst of a flurry of other Godzilla movies; it was interesting to see it as a "standalone" so to speak.
The Wild Angels (1966): The exploitation film was a huge hit and led to a run of biker films. It's historically interesting and worth seeing, though much of it does not hold up. Several Hell's Angels play supporting roles, alongside Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd, and Michael J. Pollard, among others. Supposedly, Laura Dern was conceived during the filming of this movie.
Unrelated film note: I'm e-meeting today with an indie filmmaker who is interested in one of my stories as a possible project. He has an established track record, but I won't hold my breath. Still...... I'll report what I can if there's any movement on this.
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Bird Box (2018)
It only took me eight years, but I finally saw Bird Box. Wow! I really thought it was well done. We don’t see the aliens(?) or understand their agenda. This puts us in the “same boat” as all their victims. If you haven’t seen it, I recommend it. Only available on Netflix.
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The Gravedancers (2006)
After the funeral of a old friend who died in a car accident, former school friends Harris, Kira, and Sid break into the local cemetery after dark, and after Sid reads a mysterious incantation he finds on one of the nearby tombstones, they dance on the graves. Soon, the three of them find themselves haunted by three different ghosts whose graves they desecrated.
Very well done. Watched it on YouTube
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A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959): Roger Corman made low budget B-films, but often quite good low buget B-films, and this is one of those. From Wikipedia: "[It] is set in the West Coast beatnick culture of the late 1950s. The film, produced on a $50,000 budget, was shot in five days and shares many of the low-budget filmmaking aesthetics commonly associated with Corman's work. The film is a dark comic satire about a dimwitted, impressionable young busboy at a Bohemian café who is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor when he accidentally kills his landlady's cat and covers its body in clay to hide the evidence. When he is pressured to create similar work, he becomes a serial murderer."
I PVRd that one. Don't know when I'll see it.
Just finished watching the interview from space. They've passed the halfway point to the moon.
The Earth Dies Screaming (1964), a British film, a little over an hour long. Most of the human race has been killed in a gas attack. A handful of survivors struggle to defeat an invasion of sluggish "row-butt" spacemen. Not great, but not bad, either. Worth a look if you have the time.
Bucket of Blood was definitely worth it, as far as Corman pictures go. It takes some obvious inspiration from House of Wax, with the beat accoutrements mentioned by Jeff of Earth-J. It also functions, very loosely, as a kind of first draft of Little Shop of Horrors. I need a break in the viewing of For All Mankind (we've finished the third season), and the news, which has been an infuriating blend of bleak and idiotic.
Except for the moon mission. Thank-you, Artemis.
EBIRAH, HORROR OF THE DEEP: Haven't seen this one since 2014 (when the DVD was released), but it came up on TMC last week, and in a clear case of "video redundancy" I snagged it. Tracy left on her annual vacation this morning, so Ebirah was the last movie we watched together until her return. (Expect more of this nature in the week to come.) We usually watch it in the midst of a flurry of other Godzilla movies; it was interesting to see it as a "standalone" so to speak.
The Wild Angels (1966): The exploitation film was a huge hit and led to a run of biker films. It's historically interesting and worth seeing, though much of it does not hold up. Several Hell's Angels play supporting roles, alongside Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd, and Michael J. Pollard, among others. Supposedly, Laura Dern was conceived during the filming of this movie.
Unrelated film note: I'm e-meeting today with an indie filmmaker who is interested in one of my stories as a possible project. He has an established track record, but I won't hold my breath. Still...... I'll report what I can if there's any movement on this.
Good luck!
Thanks!
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