HUNTING FOR CHEAP MOVIES

Unlike most people I did not throw out my VHS VCR after DVDs became popular. In fact I got five of them. People gave me their old VHS machines. The best part of having five VHS players is that you can buy VHS tapes for between 50 cents to a dollar out here at the Goodwill Thrift stores. Most of the movies are mainstream Hollywood flicks but if you look around you can find something of interest in the horror and sci field. Yesterday I got the three first Alien movies and a copy of the Hammer horror film RASPUTIN starring Christopher Lee in a good change of pace role. I also got 3 tapes of the English TV series ARE YOU BEING SERVED? If you are a person with a lot of old VHS tapes and are planning to get rid of them I hope you give them to the Goodwill or some other thrift shop so that other film collectors who hung on to their old VCRs can buy them cheap. I think that would be better than throwing them out with the trash.

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)

     Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein Monster in THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) Photo is from a frame capture from the trailer.

THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X -Trailer.

     Humphrey Bogart appeared in only one horror film and that was THE RETURN OF DR. X. He did not want to do this movie but was force to by the studio.
     You have to give Bogart credit as an actor. He tried his best in the film to make his part interesting. But he was doomed by the bad B movie level screenplay. For most of the film Bogart is playing a supporting
role. He only comes to the forefront of the film toward the end when it was too late to help the film any.
     With a better screenplay this would have been a nice change of pace role for Bogart instead of a film his fans want to forget.

BORIS KARLOFF- ONE OF THE GREAT ACTORS OF HORROR MOVIES.

      Boris Karloff was a good actor and a credit to the horror movies. The frame capture above is from a trailer for a re release of  FRANKENSTEIN(1931). His name was a box office draw. Even at the age of 80 and very sick a movie company made a deal with him to appear in four movies for them. Those movies would not have been worth watching without Karloff in them.

ATTACK OF MEN IN RUBBER SUITS

   
      Close up of one of the monster fish men from the movie THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH.

THE CATWOMEN

     Three evil kittens from the 3 D movie CAT WOMEN OF THE MOON.  I have also seen the film on local TV under the title ROCKET TO THE MOON.  Formerly  Cat women of the Moon it would say on the bottom of the screen. They did the same thing with a re release of Robot Monster. I use to see it every year at the San Diego Comic Con  under the title Monster from Mars formerly Robot Monster.

THE GIANT WOMAN

         The giant woman from ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN. She was the only good feature in a movie filled with schlock special effects and a soap opera plot.