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Friday B-Movie Pick: The Halloween Set

Friday, October 30th, 2015

Tomorrow is Halloween, so let’s keep with tradition here.

Young Frankenstein
The Mummy
An American Werewolf in London
Innocent Blood

Let’s not forget Near Dark and Dog Soldiers, picks from October 2011, for a double header of vampires and werewolves.

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Friday B-Movie Pick: Halloween Edition!

Friday, October 31st, 2014

It’s Halloween, so let’s keep with tradition here.

Young Frankenstein

The Mummy

An American Werewolf in London

Innocent Blood

Bonus for this year, Ghostbusters!

Let’s not forget Near Dark and Dog Soldiers, picks from October 2011, for a double header of vampires and werewolves.

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Monday Book Pick: Monster Hunter International

Monday, May 5th, 2014

Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia

Larry Coreia makes the book pick again. This is the first book in his first series. He had self-published this book, after getting turned down by multiple publishers, and it was selling pretty well. Then Baen contacted him and Correia followed up his first hit with string of others, including three more Monster Hunter books and two other series with five books between them. In this book we meet Owen Z. Pitt, who has a soul sucking accounting job in Dallas that only gets worse, when his already bad boss gets bitten by a werewolf and attacks Pitt on the next full moon. It is close, but Pitt manages to kill his boss and get threatened by some Feds who tell him to keep his mouth shut or they will put a bullet in his head. Enter Monster Hunter International. A private company that hunts monsters and collects the federal bounty on them. Yes, Pitt finds his true calling. Hunting monsters. Zombies, werewolves, Vampires, and all that stuff. Stir in some Lovecraftian horror and an old Jewish monster hunter spirit guide and you have one fun read! It has monsters. It has romance. It has detailed and accurate firearm discriptions. Fun for the whole family!

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Friday B-Movie Pick: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Friday, March 15th, 2013

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

It’s a Mary Elizabeth Winstead Hat Trick. In this historical horror/fantasy flick she plays Mary Todd Lincoln. A taller, less crazy, and definitely better looking Mary Todd Lincoln than would be historically accurate. As an escapist action flick, not bad. Good special effects, excellent cast, and it follows the Bond rule of the villain makes the movie. In this case, the vampires are very nasty indeed.

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Friday B-Movie Pick: Halloween Classics

Friday, October 26th, 2012

Next Wednesday is Halloween, so we’re going with the classics:

Young Frankenstein

The Mummy

An American Werewolf in London

Innocent Blood

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Friday B-Movie Pick: Jonah Hex

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Jonah Hex

I caught most of this turkey on cable and oh, it was sooooo bad. Bad acting, bad scrip and Megan Fox. Even a dial in performance by John Malkovich (and a Malkovich dial in is still pretty good) couldn’t help this truely bad film. OK, decent special effects, but a bad film none the less.

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Friday B-Movie Pick: Near Dark & Dog Soldiers

Friday, October 21st, 2011

Near Dark and Dog Soldiers

It’s almost Holloween, so today we have a double header of Vampires and Werewolves. The first is a low buget classic from 1987. A group of vampires roaming Oklahoma those recent yet far away days before ubiquitous cell phones, multiple 24/7 news channels and new media news back channels. There is plenty of blood and mayhem to go around in this dark and violent vampire flick that never uses the word “vampire.” Dog Soldiers was made fifteen years later, but has a lot of the same noir grittiness. A small group of British soldiers are dropped into the remote countryside for some “routine” training. Add a group of werewolves that “just happen to be in the area”, and you have a nice flick to get you in the mood for Holloween.

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Friday B-Movie Pick: Zombieland

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Zombieland

Big time B-Movie! A horror/comedy/action film. Plenty of Zombies, shotguns and humor. Oh ya, plus the occasional young girl in a short skirt or tight jeans. Fire up the popcorn. Plus a major cameo by Bill Murry, playing himself!

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Monday Book Pick: The Jennifer Morgue

Monday, February 8th, 2010

The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross.

It’s another tale from the “Laundry Files.” British Civil Servant Bob Howard is forced to save the world from the horrors of the “Old Ones” once again, while dealing with the mind numbing horrors of government bureaucracy at the same time. Stross pays tribute to the British institution of James Bond in this book as well.

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Friday B-Movie Pick: Near Dark

Friday, October 16th, 2009

I’m ramping up for Halloween with this one.

Near Dark, a dark and bloody story of Vampires roaming the modern American Southwest.  The cast includes Lance Henriksen, Jenette Goldstein, Bill Paxton and Tim Thomerson.

The scene where they go into a feeding frenzy at a out of the way bar is worth the price of admission alone.

This was one of my picks for October 31, 2008.

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