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Well... here's the post with last year's results:

I don't have to change my avatar - it works for all occasions. :D

Random comments about other movies mentioned this month that I just couldn't get worked into my watch list: The Exorcist: The first time I saw this was on HBO on a BW TV. I found it quite scary. Years later I saw it again, this time in color, and it just didn't work as well. When I purchased...

Here's my complete list of viewings with ratings and first viewings indicated: Total viewed: 154 First time viewings: 29 ☼ - First time viewing ▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲ - Rating on a 1 to 10 scale

Halloween - Part 2 *This* is the movie that was the main inspiration and "updated" for Alien. While there are differences, you'll see numerous direct lifts of things that occur on the space ship. It's a pretty good movie on its own. The first alien invasion movie and still one of the best...

Halloween - part 1 Today is mostly a day of old favorites and a couple of new films. If you thought The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues was bad then watch this little beauty. An alien arrives in the middle of the desert. The only people around are on a failing family farm which sports a wife...

Friday: Another horror movie that's not really horror (it's in a package of Universal horror movies featuring Boris Karloff, so...). This is more historical drama but you can get horror from executions by axe, gratuitous violence, and misc. murders. It's a quite good movie with Karloff as...

I get home from work around 4:10 and right now it's just my wife and me (my daughter has my across-the-street grandkids in St. Louis right now for a very long visit). She pretty much leaves me alone if I'm watching movies (she'w not a movie or horror fan). A short supper break, during October...

Thursday: Running a quick 61 minutes this is more of a showcase for Clyde Beatty's animal act, which eats up at least half the short running time, than a true horror film. Acquanetta, in her highly touted "introduction" is more of a footnote in the story told and never speaks. John Carradine...

Wednesday's viewings: A bus wreck kills, by electrocution, all but 1 passenger. One of his doctors asks him to visit so he can study why he's somewhat immune to high voltage. However, the doctor's associate is studying ways to control people via electricity and feeds the man more and more...

I'm not a huge Cronenberg fan either. I really like The Fly and think Scanners is pretty good but I've not cared for anything else I've seen from him.

Looks like I got those reversed - but neither have what I'd call "good" reviews and are quite close, number wise, on those using that method.

After reading reviews and descriptions I decided to... NOT watch the others in that set. For the curious, the other films in the set are: The Dead Zone - This one has the best reviews but the premise sounds kind of "meh" and is a type I generally don't like. Pet Sematary - From the reviews...

Yesterday: Frankenstein meets Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde... At least it feels that way. Dr. Sovak (Karloff) transplants part of a criminals brain into his professor friend to save his life. However, the criminal's brain starts to make itself known turning the professor into a Mr. Hyde. As the...

Yesterday: Another Poe title with little to nothing to do with the story. A wealthy judge coaxes the brilliant but eccentric neurological surgeon Dr. Vollin (Lugosi), who also has an obsessive penchant for Edgar Allen Poe, out of retirement to save the life of his daughter, a dancer crippled...

Event Horizon is the movie I was wishing for when Disney released The Black Hole and instead got a glorified kiddie SF affair (some good visuals but lame as heck story).

Another good viewing day on Sunday: An Amicus Films portmanteau. Something they're know for and a type of film I've never much cared for as much of the time the short stories/films just don't work that well or feel like they'd be better suited to Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock Presents...

Frankenstein 1970 is from the poverty row studio Allied Artists (formerly Monogram) and not a Universal production. It's not part of the Universal Horror Frankenstein series of films. It's currently owned by Warner Brothers.

Saturday was a quite productive movie day: Yet another in the Jekyll/Hyde vein. A professor of prehistoric life (Robert Shayne - "Inspector Henderson" of The Adventures of Superman TV series) creates an extract that regresses a cat into a sabre-tooth tiger. Since that worked he tries it on...

Friday's viewings: The last of the Invisible Man sequels finds a fugitive who escaped a mental institution looking up the couple who'd left him for dead during an Expedition which made them wealthy. He's looking for his share. After being rejected, thrown out, and cheated again he makes his...

Yesterday: The follow up to The Invisible Man Returns is a comedy... not much horror here, folks. A young woman gets fed up with her boss at the dress emporium where she works and sees an ad for volunteers to test an invisibility machine. Of course she signs up. It's the typical invisible...

You're two ahead of me... I've seen none of them so far.

Last night: Count Alucard makes his way from Budapest to the swamps of the Deep South after meeting Katherine Caldwell, who's obsessed with occult matters. Who better to guide her through this supernatural world than Count Alucard? Most notable for being the first movie to show a vampire...

Several years back I sat my oldest grandson down (I think he was 13 or 14 at the time - he's 17 now) and we watched Godzilla: King of the Monsters (1956). He kind of liked it. The next day we watched Gojira in the original Japanese. He loved it. So much that he asked for a copy for Christmas...

I wanted to ask: "What horror in 2020? Did some get released?" but knew about "Color..." and "Invisible Man..." so... best synopsis is: Bolding by me... made me laugh. :D

Yesterday (and no mummy confusion...): Easily the least of the Universal werewolf films. Murders in a London park where the victims have been savagely clawed about the throat cause the police to believe that it's perhaps a she werewolf. Heiress Phyllis Allenby (June Lockhart in an early role)...

I need more sleep... I posted yesterday about The Mummy's Curse being the 3rd, and last, sequel to The Mummy's Hand when that's actually The Mummy's Ghost! I got the plot points correct but posted about the wrong film. I watched The Mummy's Curse yesterday morning before leaving for work and...

I never got that at all from the film and didn't go in expecting a werewolf movie. But I also went in having first read a few reviews and the review from Roger Ebert, coupled with what I saw, gave me the impression they were "warging" into the wolves: Roger Ebert: The very cheap looking...

The grandkids went home early yesterday morning so I had a very productive movie watching day: A pre-built double-feature featuring Planet Terror and Death Proof along with fake movie trailers made by several directors. I've seen Planet Terror before. An experimental bio weapon is released...

You now have to watch Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter (1966) which was shot back-to-back with the "Billy the Kid" movie. It's equally bad...