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#31
Press Releases and Film News / Re: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Last post by indianasmith - October 19, 2025, 10:13:05 PMI read a few of her things back in the day.
Entertaining writer at times, but MAN! did she hate Christianity!
Entertaining writer at times, but MAN! did she hate Christianity!
#32
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by LilCerberus - October 19, 2025, 09:47:29 PMTried to tackle a couple of stinkers tonight, & turned 'em both off after ten minutes.....
A(nother) documentary about Roger Corman was probably the most exciting thing I've seen today.....
A(nother) documentary about Roger Corman was probably the most exciting thing I've seen today.....
#33
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - October 19, 2025, 08:37:08 PMTHE MUMMY AND THE CURSE OF THE JACKALS (1969):
Some sources claim this was "unfinished" but it has a beginning, middle, end, opening and closing credits, and more or less a complete story that makes every bit as much sense as any other hilariously Bad film we've ever discussed on this website - so I say the sources doth protest too much! Severin apparently found a new negative and released it last year on Blu-Ray - "rescued from obscurity"! - but to my knowledge it's always been floatin' around on Youtube. It's feature length, which might be too long - I would've been happy if this was 40 minutes!
Maybe Chainsawmidget can advise on whether there are any Universal Monster movies in his boxset where a wolfman fights a mummy. If there aren't - well, it doesn't happen here either, as technically this wolfman is actually a jackal-man. The jackal-man's makeup is sincerely adorable (in a hilarious way) and honestly better/funnier than most late-70s wolfman makeup, and we get to see a lot of it. The mummy here is also a gut-buster to behold, with one real eyeball (revealed beneath his bandages) and another bulging fake eyeball for seasoning. In the hands-down best sequence, the mummy and the jackal-man rampage in crowded downtown Las Vegas after dark. Okay, to say they "rampage" is pure hyperbole... they mostly "wander around" while unwitting extras either check them out with bemused expressions or (funnier still) ignore them altogether.
These two big galoots do fight at the end (underwhelmingly) over a revived Egyptian princess, who is lovely in a weird way and apparently up to some evil-doings though the specifics are never clear. Anthony Eisley (who was in a few real movies and many many Bad ones, including the similarly themed DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN) plays the were-jackal. John Carradine (who else!) arrives for two lengthy scenes to do what John Carradine is famous for doing: delivering complete bull$#!t with tremendous authority and conviction. He arrives at deductions based on no evidence whatsoever and tries to convince the investigating detective to allow the monsters to run amok for one more night, after which the Egyptian princess' curse will be temporarily suspended on its own. (The detective quite rightly doesn't buy this logic!) At one point Carradine channels Criswell and works a touch of Christopher Walken's inflection into the film's funniest line:
"We can't just stand around and let a four thousand year old mummy and a jackal-man
take over the city! ...Of course, this may not happen at all." 
Man I love John Carradine.
2/5
This film's most serious flaw is that it is bloody slow... I watched it after midnight and dozed off briefly several times and missed nothing. Thus no harm done, and I probably needed a nap anyway.
Some sources claim this was "unfinished" but it has a beginning, middle, end, opening and closing credits, and more or less a complete story that makes every bit as much sense as any other hilariously Bad film we've ever discussed on this website - so I say the sources doth protest too much! Severin apparently found a new negative and released it last year on Blu-Ray - "rescued from obscurity"! - but to my knowledge it's always been floatin' around on Youtube. It's feature length, which might be too long - I would've been happy if this was 40 minutes!
Maybe Chainsawmidget can advise on whether there are any Universal Monster movies in his boxset where a wolfman fights a mummy. If there aren't - well, it doesn't happen here either, as technically this wolfman is actually a jackal-man. The jackal-man's makeup is sincerely adorable (in a hilarious way) and honestly better/funnier than most late-70s wolfman makeup, and we get to see a lot of it. The mummy here is also a gut-buster to behold, with one real eyeball (revealed beneath his bandages) and another bulging fake eyeball for seasoning. In the hands-down best sequence, the mummy and the jackal-man rampage in crowded downtown Las Vegas after dark. Okay, to say they "rampage" is pure hyperbole... they mostly "wander around" while unwitting extras either check them out with bemused expressions or (funnier still) ignore them altogether.
These two big galoots do fight at the end (underwhelmingly) over a revived Egyptian princess, who is lovely in a weird way and apparently up to some evil-doings though the specifics are never clear. Anthony Eisley (who was in a few real movies and many many Bad ones, including the similarly themed DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN) plays the were-jackal. John Carradine (who else!) arrives for two lengthy scenes to do what John Carradine is famous for doing: delivering complete bull$#!t with tremendous authority and conviction. He arrives at deductions based on no evidence whatsoever and tries to convince the investigating detective to allow the monsters to run amok for one more night, after which the Egyptian princess' curse will be temporarily suspended on its own. (The detective quite rightly doesn't buy this logic!) At one point Carradine channels Criswell and works a touch of Christopher Walken's inflection into the film's funniest line:
"We can't just stand around and let a four thousand year old mummy and a jackal-man
take over the city! ...Of course, this may not happen at all." Man I love John Carradine.
2/5
This film's most serious flaw is that it is bloody slow... I watched it after midnight and dozed off briefly several times and missed nothing. Thus no harm done, and I probably needed a nap anyway.
#34
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by bob - October 19, 2025, 06:03:18 PMChatGPT
copilot
copilot
#35
Press Releases and Film News / Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Last post by ER - October 19, 2025, 05:49:05 PMFantasy writer Chelsea Quinn Yarbro died on August 31, 2025, but I only heard today.
#36
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Thought Thread Part...
Last post by ER - October 19, 2025, 05:47:34 PMAlways amazes me how localized, even compact, the wind can be. Standing here watching one stand of trees being tossed about in the breeze so hard it looks like they're dancing, while on the other side of the yard the branches there are motionless.
#37
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by lester1/2jr - October 19, 2025, 05:36:21 PMShutter Island (2010) - My sister lives right near Medfield state hospital where this was filmed. My mother was also a nursing student who worked there doing barbaric old school disciplinary practices in the 1960's, slightly later than when this takes place. I enjoyed the movie and the Boston accents were okay.
A WW2 veteran works as a US Marshall and is tasked with investigating a patient disappearance at the infamous Shutter Island facility. Pretty soon after he gets there, things start to get weird. Is he himself being groomed for some sort of top secret government experiment? Is his partner in on it?
Cool movie that made me feel crazy after watching it, which also happened with The Game (1997). I don't watch too many A list sort of movies so it was refreshing to not have to see boom mics in the shot or endure teenage girls doing car karaoke on their way to a doomed campsite experience, etc. A little over 2 hours but the time passed quickly.
4.5/ 5
A WW2 veteran works as a US Marshall and is tasked with investigating a patient disappearance at the infamous Shutter Island facility. Pretty soon after he gets there, things start to get weird. Is he himself being groomed for some sort of top secret government experiment? Is his partner in on it?
Cool movie that made me feel crazy after watching it, which also happened with The Game (1997). I don't watch too many A list sort of movies so it was refreshing to not have to see boom mics in the shot or endure teenage girls doing car karaoke on their way to a doomed campsite experience, etc. A little over 2 hours but the time passed quickly.
4.5/ 5
#38
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by bob - October 19, 2025, 03:34:51 PMChatGPT
copilot
every time I tried to make this 64 in The Great Underwater Adventure series it wouldn't remove 65 from the poster
this is the actual 65
#39
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by claws - October 19, 2025, 03:24:57 PM
#40
Good Movies / Re: 100 Movies Over 3 HOURS Lo...
Last post by Trevor - October 19, 2025, 03:11:40 PM104. RUNNING DOWN A DREAM (2007)
238 minutes docco about Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
238 minutes docco about Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, directed by Peter Bogdanovich.