Movies Watched in 2015 (offered with no comment)

I managed to somehow mess up my Google Doc of my movies-watched-for-the-year master list, so I don't really have the normal stats - first time viewings, etc.

Title	Year	Format	Feature/Short
Indestructible Man	1956	Video	Feature
Remembering Lon Chaney (Indestructible Man)	2006	Video	Short
Kim Newman on H.P. Lovecraft (The Haunted Palace)	2014	Blu-ray	Short
Hold That Ghost	1941	Video	Feature
Snowpiercer	2013	Streaming	Feature
I Was a Teenage Monster Shirt Painter	2007	Video	Feature
Madhouse	1974	Video	Feature
Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster	1966	Blu-ray	Feature
Academy of Doom	2008	Video	Feature
Bubble, The	1966	Blu-ray	Feature
Guardians of the Galaxy, The (3D)	2014	Blu-ray	Feature
Bad Blonde	1953	Video	Feature
Night World	1932	Video	Feature
Lucy	2014	Streaming	Feature
Pearl of Death, The	1944	Video	Feature
Atraco en la jungla	1976	Video	Feature
Invisible Man's Revenge, The	1944	Video	Feature
Frankenstein vs. The Mummy	2015	Streaming	Feature
Vampire's Ghost, The	1945	Video	Feature
Son of Ingagi	1940	Video	Feature
Haunted House of Horror, The	1969	Video	Feature
Dead Men Walk	1943	Video	Feature
Baffled!	1973	Video	Feature
Sangue chiama sangue	1968	Video	Feature
Superseven chiama Cairo	1965	Video	Feature
Relaxed Wife, The	1957	TCM	Short
Terrified	1963	Video	Feature
Vengeance	1968	Video	Feature
War of the Robots	1978	Video	Feature
So Your Wife Wants to Work	1956	TCM	Short
Horrors of Spider Island	1960	Theater	Feature
Theory of Everything, The	2014	Streaming	Feature
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief	2015	Streaming	Feature
Deliver From Us From Evil	2006	Streaming	Feature
Cyborg 2087	1966	Streaming	Feature
Imitation Game, The	2014	Streaming	Feature
Mystery in the Bermuda Triangle	1970	Video	Feature
Neighbor	2012	Video	Short
Ape	1976	Video	Feature
Die! Die! My Darling!	1965	Video	Feature
Planet of the Apes	1968	Theater	Feature
Top Flat	1935	TCM	Short
Hitler Lives	1945	TCM	Short
Gone Girl	2014	Streaming	Feature
Mill at Clader's End, The	2014	Theater	Short
Flight to Mars	1951	Video	Feature
Mad Magician, The	1954	Video	Feature
Invisible Ghost	1941	Video	Feature
Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (Hosted by Dr. Dreck)	1957	Video	Feature
Man Made Monster (Hosted by Svengoolie)	1941	MeTV	Feature
Frankenstein Conquers the World (Hosted by Morgus)	1965	Video	Feature
Wrong Way Butch	1950	TCM	Short
Mad Max: Fury Road	2015	Theater	Feature
Maze, The	1953	Video	Feature
Fed Up	2014	Streaming	Feature
Tales of the Grim Sleeper	2014	Streaming	Feature
The Hypnotic Eye	1960	TCM	Feature
Evan Straw	2010	VIdeo	Feature
Imposter, The	2012	Streaming	Feature
Source Family, The	2012	Streaming	Feature
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father	2008	Streaming	Feature
Horror Hotel (Hosted by Midnite Mausoleum)	1966	Video	Feature
Tales of Dracula	2015	Video	Feature
Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (Hosted by Svengoolie)	1956	MeTV	Feature
Dungeon of Dr. Dreck, The	2008	Video	Feature
Ghoul, The	1933	Blu-ray	Feature
El Monstruo Resucitado	1953	Video	Feature
Rasptin: The Mad Monk	1966	Blu-ray	Feature
Tall Stories: The Making of Rasputin: The Mad Monk	2012	Blu-ray	Short
Believe It or Not (Second Series) #5	1932	TCM	Short
Face of Fu Manchu, The	1965	Video	Feature
Kids For Cash	2013	Streaming	Feature
Phonies Beware!	1956	TCM	Short
Beneath the Planet of the Apes	1970	Blu-ray	Feature
From Alpha to Omega: Building a Sequel - Beneath the Planet of the Apes	2012	Blu-ray	Short
Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop	2015	Streaming	Feature
Cosmic Monster, The	1958	TCM	Feature
Destroy All Monsters	1968	Video	Feature
Vengeance of She, The	1968	Video	Feature
Hail to the King: 60 Years of Destruction	2015	Streaming	Feature
Leech Woman, The (Hosted by Svengoolie)	1960	MeTV	Feature
Wasp Woman, The	1959	TCM	Feature
Man in the Barn, The	1937	TCM	Short
Kaijunited: Japanese Monsters & Us	2012	Streaming	Short
Hot Rod Girl (Hosted by Professor Fred's Movie Marvels)	1956	Video	Feature
In Heaven There is No Beer?	1984	TCM	Feature
Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.	1966	Blu-ray	Feature
First Men in the Moon	1964	Blu-ray	Feature
Killers From Space	1954	Video	Feature
War of the Gargantuas, The	1966	Video	Feature
Strange Confession	1945	Video	Feature
Z for Zachariah	2015	Streaming	Feature
Frozen Ghost, The	1945	Video	Feature
Pillow of Death	1945	Video	Feature
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau	2014	Streaming	Feature
Space Children, The	1955	Blu-ray	Feature
Rewind This!	2013	Streaming	Feature
Pulp Fiction: The Golden Age of Storytelling	2009	Streaming	Feature
Night Walker, The (Hosted by Svengoolie)	1964	MeTV	Feature
Video World	2013	Streaming	Short
Interview with Jack Arnold (Revenge of the Creature (3D))	2015	Blu-ray	Short
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack	2001	Blu-ray	Feature
From a Whisper to a Scream	1987	Blu-ray	Feature
Return to Oldfield: Making From a Whisper to a Scream	2015	Blu-ray	Short
Statement of Randolph Carter, The		Theater	Short
Case of Patient Paul Edward Kelley, The	2015	Theater	Short
Escape from Midwich Valley	2014	Theater	Short
Stomach, The	2014	Theater	Short
Brine	2015	Theater	Short
This Horror So Unreal		Theater	Short
Balloon	2015	Theater	Short
Awaiting Lazarus	2013	Theater	Short
Derleth's Brain	2015	Theater	Short
Littlest Cthulhuist, The	2015	Theater	Short
Tailypo	2015	Streaming	Short
Jack Pierce, The Maker of Monsters	2015	Video	Feature
Pitch Perfect 2	2015	Streaming	Feature
Spring	2014	Streaming	Feature
Bourne Supremacy, The	2004	Streaming	Feature
Bourne Ultimatum, The	2007	Streaming	Feature
Drácula	1931	Theater	Feature
It! The Terror from Beyond Space	1958	Blu-ray	Feature
Body Snatcher, The	1945	Video	Feature
Crimson Cult, The	1968	Blu-ray	Feature
Music Macabre: An Interview with Kendall Roclord Schmidt	2015	Blu-ray	Short
Dracula A.D. 2015	2015	Streaming	Feature
Martian, The	2015	Theater	Feature
Godzilla vs. The Thing	1964	Video	Feature
Blood for a Silver Dollar	1965	Blu-ray	Feature
Sorcerers, The	1967	Video	Feature
Trainwreck	2015	Streaming	Feature
Vesuvius Xperiment, The	2015	Video	Feature
Menace with Five Arms, The	2013	Video	Feature
Cemetery Without Crosses	1969	Blu-ray	Feature
Insidious: Chapter 3	2015	Blu-ray	Feature
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films	2014	Streaming	Feature
Star Wars: The Force Awakens	2015	Theater	Feature
Escape from the Planet of the Apes	1971	Blu-ray	Feature
Special When Lit	2009	Streaming	Feature
Danny Johnson Save the World	2015	Video	Feature

Countdown to Halloween 2015 - Counting Down the Monsters #8 - Carrefour

I used to watch zombie movies. A LOT. These days, though, I just don't care much about the newer stuff. I think maybe watching so many of them for my old podcast might have burned me out a bit, and I had some things happen in my personal life that drove me away from a lot of modern horror anyway.

That said, I still like a good black-and-white zombie flick. And I Walked With a Zombie (dir. Jacques Tourneur) is one of the best. I first saw this film before I got into podcasting, but I can't remember exactly when. I do know the first time I started taking the movie seriously was, again, when I was asked to appear on the B-Movie Cast. I was taken with the film. It's beautifully produced and wonderfully acted. The story works on a number of levels, and there are so many things to see and learn in the film. I did talk about the movie with writer Paul McComas on my own Monster Kid Radio podcast (here and here), and, honestly, I can keep talking about it on any podcast or other platform.

Darby Jones appears as one of the most iconic zombies in all of film history in this film. As Carrefour, he has little screen time. The time he spends on screen, however, is so captivating, so moody . . . SO GOOD.

Jones would come back as the zombie Kalaga in Zombies on Broadway (dir. Gordon Douglas), but he's not nearly as effective here. I blame the make-up being slightly askew and the direction just not being as tight. Even the presence of the master Bela Lugosi doesn't help (although it is interesting to see Lugosi in another zombie film after the ground breaking White Zombie (dir. Victor Halperin)).

Darby Jones doesn't need anyone to help him stand out as a zombie in I Walked With a Zombie. He just needs a bit of shadow, a touch of atmosphere, and some loving cinematography, all of which I Walked With a Zombie provides.

Countdown to Halloween 2015 - Counting Down the Monsters #7 - Professor Henry Morlant

After Boris Karloff made a horror name for himself with Frankenstein (dir. James Whale) and The Mummy (dir. Karl Freund) in the states, he returned home to England to reunite with his family, and ended up making a film in his homeland as well. That film was 1933's The Ghoul (dir. T. Hayes Hunter), and while Karloff himself might not have had the grandest of times making the movie (he wasn't a fan of make-up artist Heinrich Heitfeld, who reportedly didn't speak English), I still find the film enjoyable and creepy.

Throw some faux-Ancient Egyptian elements into a film, and I'm hooked. I love that aesthetic, and that's a big part of the reason I love most mummy films (which I'm sure I'll get to as this month continues!). Karloff himself was in one of the (if not the) best mummy films, so to see him continue to skulk around an Egyptian tomb in The Ghoul was a real treat.

Karloff, as always, is a delight, and to see him in another movie with Ernest Thesiger is a bonus. Also, The Ghoul expertly incorporates a bit of Richard Wagner's "Der Götterdämmerung" into its soundtrack. (Previously, I'd been associating that music with Excalibur (dir. John Boorman), but I think I dig it a LOT as a funeral march now!)

This is the lanky, younger Karloff, so he's this thin creep of a man in the movie, and his performance (combined with the make-up) gives him the look of a professor-turned-ghoul. He exacts his revenge on those who've wrong him . . . and it's unnerving. I'm purposefully being vague about many more details of the movie because it really is something I think more people should see for themselves!