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Last post by claws - October 20, 2025, 07:55:53 AM
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Last post by ER - October 20, 2025, 07:53:46 AM
I saw a YouTube video where a man went metal detecting in some woods and kept finding pennies. More pennies than you'd think would be in the middle of the woods. A handful by the time he was finished, none more recent than the mid-1970s. Turns out he was detecting in the woods where Lynyrd Skynyrd 's plane crashed, and he found out some aboard had been playing penny-ante poker when the accident happened.
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Last post by Rev. Powell - October 20, 2025, 07:53:16 AM
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Thought Thread Part...
Last post by ER - October 20, 2025, 07:47:59 AM
Amazon sent us a box of a hundred felt-covered clothes hangers and we didn't order them. I emailed them that fact and was told to just keep them. Guess we're good on clothes hangers for the rest of the decade.
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Press Releases and Film News / Re: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Last post by ER - October 20, 2025, 07:44:19 AM
Quote from: indianasmith on 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!

That's certainly true in her life as in her fiction. She had a talent for presenting history in her books more accurately than someone like Ken Follett, but her MO to the point of stereotype was stock characters of abused women rescued by her recurring hero, and Christian figures who came off as cartoon villains.

Through Greg's sister Diana and my late friend Mitch I had some peripheral involvement twenty years ago with the San Francisco Michael group she was part of, and came away realizing she was among the most acerbic people I ever encountered.
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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - October 20, 2025, 07:44:13 AM


"Diary of a Candle" by Faten Kanaan. Minimalist instrumental music somewhat influenced by horror movie soundtracks.
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Press Releases and Film News / Re: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Last post by indianasmith - October 19, 2025, 10:13:05 PM
I read a few of her things back in the day.
Entertaining writer at times, but MAN! did she hate Christianity!
#49
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by LilCerberus - October 19, 2025, 09:47:29 PM
Tried 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.....
#50
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - October 19, 2025, 08:37:08 PM
THE 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!  :smile:

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  :twirl:  take over the city! ...Of course, this may not happen at all."  :buggedout:

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.