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In  which we bid a fond farewell to the show, by taking a look at my favorite monster movie of all time, “The Creature From The Black Lagoon”, listen to some goodbyes and some final feedback during intermission, and turn off the projector one last time. Bonus points for Hot Number Julie Adams memories, the explanation of the number 346, more information about my childhood than you ever needed to know (including disco) and a heartfelt goodbye to all my Gentle Listeners. I love you all. More Episodes At The "Bill Watches Movies" Website! Bill's Personal Website! Subscribe to The Gentle Listener Newsletter! Bill's Amazon Wish List!

In which we scrap Plans 1 through 8, and decide to take over the planet Earth using Plan 9, which involves Sassy UFO Based Drag Queen Overlords, Reanimated Dead People who probably wish they had remained un-animated, Paper Plate Flying Saucers, and a Fabulous Space Station in dire need of a Queer Eye For The Space Guy makeover. Bonus points for Zombie Tor Johnson, On Point Vampira Make-Up, Chiropractic Fake Shemp, and a Blink And You'll Miss It Ed Wood, Jr. cameo. Visit the "Bill Watches Movies" Website! Bill's Tabletop RPG Site! Bill's Personal Website! Buy Bill a Coffee! Bill's Amazon Wish List!

In which a race of advanced interstellar beings who look suspiciously like gorillas wearing diving helmets with antenna on top, visit Earth and decide that they're going to kill everyone on the planet and then make it a nice vacation getaway for themselves, only to be thwarted by one of their own falling in love with the last remaining woman of legal age on said planet. Bonus points for unrequited gorilla love, unexplained triceratops wrasslin', incorrect genocidal mathematics, heavy petting in the bushes, and unexplained cave entrance bubbles. Visit the "Bill Watches Movies" Website! Bill's Tabletop RPG Site! Bill's Personal Website! Buy Bill a Coffee! Bill's Amazon Wish List!

In which two acknowledged masters of the horror genre meet again under the Hammer Films banner, but this time, instead of one giving life to the other, one is decidedly trying to end the life of the other, as Sir Peter Cushing as Doctor Van Helsing, and Sir Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, chase each other through hell and half of Klausenberg in this month's film. Bonus points for custom bound journals, bespoke vampire wear for the big and tall, bureaucratic border guard buffoonery, and of course, sheer negligees, bright red Giallo blood and heaving bosoms filled with vampiric Big Daddy desire. Visit the "Bill Watches Movies" Website! Bill's Tabletop RPG Site! Bill's Personal Website! Buy Bill a Coffee! Bill's Amazon Wish List!

In which a Gentle Canadian Hobo with the aid of a Beautiful Woman On The Run, and a Sage Teacher With A Secret, discovers his true family history, finds love (maybe) and learns how to channel and use his psychic powers, which includes the ability to make people's heads explode. Bonus points for Self-Trepanning, Angry Patrick McGoohan Overacting, Psychic Group Sex, and Pornstache Les Nessman Cranial Removal. Read This Episode's Notes! Visit the Bill Makes Podcasts Website! Leave Feedback To Be Played On The Show at 1(727)755-1338! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

In which we discover that crime actually does pay, and pay quite well. Starring a Gentleman Thief with Dreamy Grey Eyes, a Buxom Blonde Assistant, and a Disheveled Always One Step Behind Police Inspector, we travel to Italy for a very good Mario Bava Comic Book Movie, in the Diabolik Cinematic Universe. Bonus points for multiple Jaguars (car, not the cat), multiple make-out sessions, and literally rolling around in money while totally, totally doing it. Read This Episode's Notes! Visit the Bill Makes Podcasts Website! Leave Feedback To Be Played On The Show at 1(727)755-1338! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

In which we have a meeting of The Creature From The Black Lagoon Fan Club, and decide whether or not to allow a new member from the coast of California into the organization. They seem to have the right amount of lust, aggression, age and close proximity to water, so we'll at least give them a chance to plead their case. Bonus points for teenage heavy petting, cranky lighthouse keeping, cigar chewing law enforcement, wanton bloodletting and stentorian sermons from the town doctor. Read This Episode's Notes! Visit the Bill Makes Podcasts Website! Leave Feedback To Be Played On The Show at 1(727)755-1338! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

In which The Greater Tokyo Area is yet again attacked by a giant monster, and the combined military needs their collective fats pulled out of the fire by an astronaut team that makes F Troop look like Mensa members. Bonus points for Bic lighter based jet engines, awkward and unrequited love, girls taking showers together, and the overzealous use of menthol shaving cream in the weirdest way possible. Read This Episode's Notes! Visit the Bill Makes Podcasts Website! Leave Feedback To Be Played On The Show at 1(727)755-1338! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

In which two giants of the horror genre meet for the first time, one playing a prissy fussbudget bent on playing God and creating man in a very, very ugly image, and the other playing said man, bent on teaching the prissy fussbudget a lesson for bringing him back from the dead when he was perfectly happy in the afterlife. Bonus points for Sir Peter Cushing, Sir Christopher Lee and various and sundry Gothic trappings such as castles, maids, hoop skirts and well-lit heaving breasts. Read This Episode's Notes! Visit the Bill Makes Podcasts Website! Leave Feedback To Be Played On The Show at 1(727)755-1338! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

In which we learn that crime does not pay, and that all trespassers will be punished severely via various torture devices, right after the seemingly abandoned castle owner, who thinks that he is the reincarnation of a long dead executioner puts on his little wrestling/torturing outfit. Bonus points for numerous revealing outfit changes by the young nubile actresses, excessive Space Age Bachelor Pad music, and of course, Mickey Hargitay's beautiful body that would drive a preacher's daughter to leave the Lord. Read This Episode's Notes! Visit the Bill Makes Podcasts Website! Leave Feedback To Be Played On The Show at 1(727)755-1338! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter! Links, Links and More Links!

In which we watch the worst version of Mission: Impossible EVER, throw in some martial arts, some religious zealotry, a few hot blondes and then top it off with a drunken politician and a slow motion motorcycle chase. Bonus points for death by bull goring and pizza cutter kung-fu shoes. Read This Episode's Notes! Visit the Bill Makes Podcasts Website! Leave Feedback To Be Played On The Show at 1(727)755-1338! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter! Links, Links and More Links!

In which we are again taken into The Starman Cinematic Universe and watch the Best Spandex Clad Butt In Japan fight against lizard people, COVID-19, mask mandates and save the world for democracy, Big Pharma and young Japanese children. Bonus points for Female Lizard Gandalf Wizard Action.  And parkour. Read This Episode's Notes! Visit the Bill Makes Podcasts Website! Leave Feedback To Be Played On The Show at 1(727)755-1338! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter! Take A Short Listener Survey Links, Links and More Links!

In which we celebrate our third anniversary, along with Colonel Moses, Foxy Cleopatra, Vampire Jim Jones, and his cult of robed, albino, Luddite followers. Bonus points for a lime green velvet jacket and ruffled shirt combo that would make Mozart squeal and write a symphony about its magnificence. Read This Episode's Notes! Visit the Bill Makes Podcasts Website! Leave Feedback To Be Played On The Show at 1(727)755-1338! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter! Take A Short Listener Survey Links, Links and More Links!

In which we are taken to Ancient Rome, the land of the leather Speedo, and watch tanned and oiled bodybuilder Reg Clark throw Stonehengian boulders around, travel to the Underworld to rescue his main squeeze, and see more chiffon togas than you can shake a stick (or a boulder) at. Bonus points for Sir Christopher Lee doing his best Dracula/Not Dracula impersonation while fighting against a horrific haircut that would make Moe Howard jealous. Read This Episode's Notes! Visit the Bill Makes Podcasts Website! Leave Feedback To Be Played On The Show at 1(727)755-1338! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter! Links, Links and More Links!

In which Death Rides A Horse, as opposed to Death Taking An Uber, Death Having Difficulty Hailing A Taxi, or Death Being A Responsible Citizen And Taking Public Transportation. In this Spaghetti Western, we have The Master Ninja himself, Lee Van Cleef, full of porn ‘stache and scowl, taking on bad guys and becoming somewhat of a father figure to a blue eyed baby faced gunslinger looking for revenge. Bonus points for Ennio Morricone music, beautiful Italian scenery and Shirtless Old Man Action. We Have Show Notes! The Bill Makes Podcasts Website Support the Shows! Recommend A Movie! Submit A Question For The AMA! Leave Feedback For The Show at 1(727)755-1338! Learn To Podcast! Listen To The Shows On YouTube! Love The Show? Get The Shirt! Really Love The Show? Write A Review! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

In which we once again take a Spring Break trip down to Horror Mexico, and meet up with Santo - The Saint - The Man in the Silver Mask, as he fights crime in a wax museum, uses state of the art technology, takes a knife to the back and lives, and occasionally wrestles to pay the bills. Bonus points for pointy bras, photographers with agency, Mid-Century Modern homes, and the suavest megalomaniac we've seen since "Frankenstein's Daughter"! We've Got Show Notes! The Bill Makes Podcasts Website Support the Shows! Recommend A Movie! Submit A Question For The AMA! Leave Feedback For The Show at 1(727)755-1338! Learn To Podcast! Listen To The Shows On YouTube! Love The Show? Get The Shirt! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

The 1950's were a very black and white time, both literally and figuratively. Everything was black and white - our films, our TV shows, our newspapers, our restrooms and lunch counters, heck even our world view was black and white. It was a simpler time, well, until we decided that we would try to use our new fangled technology to try and communicate with the good people of Mars. In this month's movie, Peter Graves, aka Mister Phelps from Mission Impossible, is our Martian correspondent, and let's just say that maybe talking to Mars was NOT a good idea. At all. The Bill Makes Podcasts Website Support the Shows! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

Yes, we have finally decided to enter the Bert I. Gordon Cinematic Universe! Reviled by some (I'm looking at you, fellow MST3k fans), and beloved by others, Gordon was one of the Atomic Era's most prolific creatives, often wearing multiple hats of producer, director, screenwriter and special effects director. This effort comes complete with a Giant Spider, a small town Sheriff, a mansplaining Science Teacher, teen romance, and of course, a little rock and roll. Bonus points for a daughter with Dead Daddy Issues. The Bill Makes Podcasts Website Support the Shows! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter! Get Up To TWO Months of Libsyn Podcast Hosting For Free!

It's our First Annual Fu Manchu February! Let's celebrate this holiday by watching the first of 5 movies starring Sir Christopher Lee as the eponymous Evil Asian Warlord Bent On World Domination! It's Two-Fisted Bourbon Drinking Evil Fighting Action! Or as close as we can get with Nayland Smith and Doctor Petrie, our Dollar Store version of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson! The Bill Makes Podcasts Website Support the Shows! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

Yes, our favorite EuroSpy CIA agent, Bob Fleming, is back and he's heading to Casablanca to smooch, shoot, sarcasm and save the world from women with on point cat eye makeup and evil geniuses in wheelchairs! Richard Harrison's second appearance as Fleming (after Secret Agent Fireball), is directed by Antonio Marghariti, and it's about as goofy and as fun as you'd expect. Bonus points for angry brawling dwarf in a fez action. The Bill Makes Podcasts Website Bill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group Support the Shows! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

We're back after our Second Anniversary slumber, and we're going to be talking about Bob "A Christmas Story" Clark's groundbreaking slasher lite classic, 1974's "Black Christmas". Armed with a great script, a wonderful cast, some pretty inventive camera work and controversial for the time subject matter (abortion), this unsung hero of the 1970's horror scene has recently been rediscovered by a new generation of horror fans and given the respect it is due. The appearance of Sexy Seventies John Saxon is bonus. The Bill Makes Podcasts Website Bill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group Become a Patron! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

Hello Gentle Listeners! A gentle reminder that the first episode of Monsters by the Minute is going to be heading your way SOON. I reveal all in this short message! Bill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group Become a Patron! Buy The Mummy Blu-Ray and Support the Show! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

Before Vincent Price was "The Last Man on Earth" in 1964, Harry Belafonte, Jr. was almost the last man on earth in the 1959 "The World, The Flesh and the Devil", the story of atomic warfare gone horribly wrong (or right, I guess, depending on the anticipated outcome) where the majority of the world's population is killed and there are only a few folks left here on earth to make a go of it again. Good luck with that. On one hand it's a tighter, faster version of The Stand, and on the other hand, we show that just because everyone's pretty much dead, racial hostilities, prejudice and the emotional fallout from that still lingers. This is a movie that you really need to see, it's a wonderful time capsule of the racial world of the 1950's, and also a beautifully written, directed and shot film. The Bill Makes Podcasts Website Bill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group Become a Patron! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

It must have been a great time to be a screenwriter in the 1950's and 1960's at the beginning of the Atomic Era. Nuclear power, nuclear weapons, nuclear radiation and the inevitable nuclear holocaust were the best villains and challenges that a good script writer could ask for. It was like mad libs but with much more horrific consequences. Now, no one played this game better than the Japanese and their movies and television shows reflected their earnest and heartfelt warnings against doing stupid things again with nuclear bombs. We have Godzilla, we have The Mysterians, and now we have Starman - an intergalactic policeman sent to stop us from blowing each other up, befriending orphans and nuns while beating the crap out of evil rulers and gangsters. The Bill Makes Podcasts Website Bill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group Become a Patron! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

Originally called "The Monsters of Terror" in Spanish, the movie was also known in the US as "Assignment Terror" (this is how most websites refer to the movie), and finally, the United Kingdom wins the best, but most confusing title with "Dracula versus Frankenstein". I can only imagine the sheer number of angry and confused British viewers after watching this movie with that title. The Bill Makes Podcasts Website Bill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group Become a Patron! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

There are certain events that are seasonal in nature. The monarch butterflies return to Mexico each winter. The swallows return to San Juan Capistrano each March. The giant great white sharks return to Amity Island each July. And we, Gentle Listeners, each May, must return to Horror Mexico, land of the luchador - the heroic, super human wrestler who uses his masked powers for good and not for evil. Unless of course they are temporarily under the control of a mad scientist. This month, as last May, our guide and our gateway to Horror Mexico is Santo, The Saint, The Man in The Silver Mask, and this month, he is going to fight very undead, but very beautiful vampire women. In this early entry into the Santo mythos, the 7th film out of the eventual 52 that would be made, the movie both continues the tropes and traditions of the luchador, while adding some serious production values which add to the atmospheric black and white. Let’s get in our convertible, put the top down, blast some bossa nova music, grab a Big Gulp and some Slim Jim’s from the 7-11 and head down to Horror Mexico, shall we? Yes, we shall. The Bill Makes Podcasts Website Bill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group Become a Patron for as little as $5 a month and get weekly episodes! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

If there's one thing that a true film aficionado obsesses over it's lost media. These are films that were made, or rumored to have been made, but, due to any number of circumstances, are lost to time, presumably never to be seen again. In the horror genre, one such movie is the immortal Lon Chaney's "London After Midnight". In this silent detective/horror film, Chaney plays both the crime fighter and the criminal.  The last known print was lost in a fire in 1967, and the only way to see any version of it is through music and still photographs. This is a movie that deserves to be found, a movie that there is a burning desire for film students to see again, and learn from. Then, there are movies that are lost, and really don't deserve to be found, and one of those is Craig Denney's "The Astrologer", a $4 million dollar vanity project made by, and starring a man who had no talent in any way, shape or form, in film making, screenwriting, nor acting. "The Astrologer" has been found, and, after watching it, I want to punch the person who found it. The Bill Makes Podcasts Website Bill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group Become a Patron for as little as $5 a month and get weekly episodes! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

When it comes to movies, you would hope that the marketing department and the screenwriter put together a title that is enticing, exciting and descriptive of what the movie is about. "The Mummy", for example, certainly does have an undead priest of Egypt as the main character. “The Giant Gila Monster” will show you, through the magic of special effects, a desert dwelling gila monster that seems to be the size of a dang house. “Frankenstein”, however seems to cheat a bit, in that the title could be talking about the Doctor, the Baron or the Modern Prometheus, as Mary Shelly subtitled her novel. In this month’s movie, "Frankenstein Meets The Spacemonster" well, the filmmakers pretty much lie to our faces. The Bill Makes Podcasts Website Bill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group Become a Patron for as little as $5 a month and get weekly episodes! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

The 1970’s were Peak Made for TV Movies, and they tended to fall within three camps: You had the good - Brian’s Song, a true story about the death of the Chicago Bears football player, Gayle Sayers - the one movie that made every man on the planet cry before Spock’s death in the Wrath of Khan came along. You had the hidden potential - Duel, a young Steven Spielberg’s first foray into full length film that pitted ol’ Marshall McCloud himself, Dennis Weaver, against a homicidal big rig driver who just will. Not. Die. You had the springboard - Shows such as The Night Stalker and Columbo came from Made for TV movies. Then you have this month’s movie - Black Noon. The Bill Makes Podcasts Website Bill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group Become a Patron for as little as $5 a month and get weekly episodes! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

Have you ever seen a dragonfly larvae? If not, hint: THEY ARE NOT PRETTY, but I think that we can absolutely agree that the final product is astoundingly beautiful, nature's iridescent little Sikorsky helicopters. The lesson here is that beautiful things can come from ugly things. That despite a bad idea, a great product can be brought into the world. So it is with Hammer's 1957 production of "The Abominable Snowman". Upon first blush, you're like okay, it's a Bigfoot movie, let's not get too excited about it, but then - then you see that it has Peter 'effin' Cushing in it. And you start watching it. And you change your mind. This movie is really, really good. Let's take a look at it, shall we? The Bill Makes Podcasts Website Bill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group Become a Patron for as little as $1 a month! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

Made just three years after the classic “Gojira” by the same director, “The Mysterians” is one of those movies where you wonder just what the hell happened between initial idea and finished film. A cautionary tale against the proliferation and use of nuclear weapons, we have flying saucers, a Giant Anteater Robot, Disco Overlords bent on world destruction and, of course, marrying our Earth women. It’s just as bonkers as it sounds. The Bill Makes Podcasts Website Bill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group Become a Patron for as little as $1 a month! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

Sharks. Nature’s Death Torpedoes, or Misunderstood Gentle Ocean Creature? In this movie we’re going for the latter, as Richard Jaekel, only a scant 5 years away from an Oscar nomination, plays Sonny Stein, a former marine salvage worker in the Philippines, who is now, powered by a mystical amulet given to him by some random old dude, able to communicate telepathically with said sharks, give them names like Matilda and Sammy, and protect them from evil scientists, evil fishermen and evil morbidly obese night club owners. Jacques Cousteau, he ain’t. Maybe slipping a $10 donation to Sea Shepherd or Greenpeace would have been better. Let’s take a look at Richard Jaekel, Shark Whisperer, shall we? The Bill Makes Podcasts Website Bill Makes Podcasts Facebook Group Become a Patron for as little as $1 a month! Join the Gentle Listener Newsletter!

Coming in 2021, Monsters by the Minute is the new podcast from Bill Mize, the man who brought you the award winning Bill Watches Movies podcast. Join Bill as he takes a minute by minute look at the 1932 Boris Karloff classic "The Mummy" and brings you the stories both in front of, and behind the camera. You'll learn about the stars, the director, the artists and more who brought this understated occult classic to life. Head over to the Monsters by the Minute website and sign up for the newsletter that will bring you the latest information on the podcast. Welcome, Gentle Listeners, to Monsters by the Minute, Season One, The Mummy. Monsters by the Minute website Facebook Page Join the Monsters by the Minute Newsletter

When one thinks of Great Britain, we think of Downton Abbey, Queen Elizabeth, punks with big mohawks, and of course, Winston Churchill. We might think about Stonehenge, Rendelsham Forest, and of course, David Icke. We do not, however, think about train stations, excavated UFO’s, and the desiccated corpses of giant grasshoppers who may or may not be, our Martian Mind Control Overlords, bent on Complete World Domination. Now granted, that’s a lot to take in, so let’s unpack this movie bit by bit and see where we land, shall we? Episode Show Notes The Bill Watches Movies Website Facebook Page Twitter Support the show on Patreon Buy Bill a coffee at Ko-Fi Support the show in other ways! Contact Bill and leave feedback for the show! 5 Minute, Totally anonymous Listener Survey Get New Episodes in Your Inbox!

To many among us, Hawaii is a distant paradise. Thousands of miles away, it is a remote, mysterious, exotic travel destination. We envision sandy beaches, clear blue water, surfers, drinks with umbrellas, luaus and beautiful women in grass skirts to greet us as we exit the plane. To those that live and fight crime in Hawaii, each day is an adventure. They drive Jeeps. They shoot guns. They wear little to no clothing. They fight drug lords, have impromptu casual sex with no warning, battle snakes that shouldn’t even BE on the island that want to kill them and finally - finally they shoot bazookas from the back of the previously mentioned Jeep and blow up evil skateboarders with wild abandon. That, my friends is how they fight crime in paradise. Welcome, Gentle Listeners, to Hard Ticket to Hawaii. Episode Show Notes The Bill Watches Movies Website Facebook Page Twitter Support the show on Patreon Buy Bill a coffee at Ko-Fi Support the show in other ways! Contact Bill and leave feedback for the show! 5 Minute, Totally anonymous Listener Survey Get New Episodes in Your Inbox!

To really enjoy luchador movies, masked wrestler movies made in Mexico, we must go to a place that I call Horror Mexico. Horror Mexico is a place where monsters exist, where terror is a common occurrence, and where Masked Wrestlers walk down the street, with a girl on each arm, just daring those monsters and terrors to come out of hiding so that they can punch them in their horror faces. Today we enter Horror Mexico for the first time on the show, and we talk about the most beloved Luchador of all time, El Santo, the Saint, the Man in the Silver Mask. I do hope you enjoy it. Episode Show Notes The Bill Watches Movies Website Facebook Page Twitter Support the show on Patreon Buy Bill a coffee at Ko-Fi Support the show in other ways! Contact Bill and leave feedback for the show! 5 Minute, Totally anonymous Listener Survey Get New Episodes in Your Inbox!

There’s something about being a Secret Agent that people just love. Danger, excitement, fast cars, alcoholic beverages, smooching and of course, being able to dress really, really well. The degree of wish fulfillment is so high that you come out of a James Bond movie wanting to pick a fight with a stranger, just to see if you would win, then get the girl and have someone place a martini in your hand. That’s the sign of a good Secret Agent movie. Which brings us to this month’s movie. It’s an Italian movie that wants to be a James Bond movie, but without the acting, writing, directing, stunt work or even intellectual property to do so. You will come out of this movie wanting to cry on the shoulder of a stranger, just for the comfort, and then have someone place a lite beer in your hand just to wash away the pain. Episode Show Notes The Bill Watches Movies Website Facebook Page Twitter Support the show on Patreon Buy Bill a coffee at Ko-Fi Support the show in other ways! Contact Bill and leave feedback for the show! 5 Minute, Totally anonymous Listener Survey Get New Episodes in Your Inbox!

The Seventies were a weird dang time.  From Nixon, the Vietnam War,  the Zodiac Killer, Charles Manson, Disco, Jaws, Bigfoot and of course, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. UFO Target Earth was made 3 years before Spielberg's seminal flying saucer film, but it is light years ahead in incoherent plot, poor acting and Commodore 64 generated computer graphic weirdness. You don't have to be high to understand this movie, but it honestly might help. Episode Show Notes The Bill Watches Movies Website Facebook Page Twitter Support the show on Patreon Buy Bill a coffee at Ko-Fi Support the show in other ways! Contact Bill and leave feedback for the show! 5 Minute, Totally anonymous Listener Survey

When it comes to vampires, and especially the King of the Vampires, Dracula, you want someone who will kick ass, take names, snap your neck like a pencil, and steal your girl. If you look at Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan's work on Marvel's "The Tomb of Dracula" comic book from the 1970's, you will see what I am talking about. With this Dracula, however, we get someone a bit different. Brought to life by the incredible Spanish horror maestro, Paul Naschy, this version of Dracula comes across as a bit weak, a bit needy, with low self-esteem and high body fat percentage. Let's see what Emo Dracula is all about, shall we?   Episode Show Notes The Bill Watches Movies Website Facebook Page Twitter Support the show on Patreon Buy Bill a coffee at Ko-Fi Support the show in other ways! Contact Bill and leave feedback for the show! 5 Minute, Totally anonymous Listener Survey

Life is hard out there for werewolves. Full moons, silver bullets, smelly fur unless you spend a lot on shampoo, and the whole killing other people thing as well. If one were a werewolf, I would think that a dormitory full of young girls would be the perfect place to hang out. It's dry, it's warm, and it's filled with beautiful yummy things to kill! It's like a Golden Corral for lycanthropes! Come join hunky Dr. Julian Alcott as he tries to figure out who's turning into a wolf and murdering hot young things! Episode Show Notes The Bill Watches Movies Website Facebook Page Twitter Support us on Patreon Buy us a coffee at Ko-Fi 5 Minute, Anonymous Listener Survey

When your boss is the most feared and hated man in the world, hanging out with him can really be a pain in the ass. Instead of walking around with Adolf Hitler, why not just cut off his head and carry that around, like carry on luggage or some sort of angry hat box? In this movie, our angry little Nazi’s decide that the head of Hitler is a much better leader than a whole Hitler and decide to start down the road to the Fourth Reich by killing everyone in an imaginary little banana republic called Mandoras. Episode Show Notes The Bill Watches Movies Website Facebook Page Twitter Patreon Ko-Fi Listener Survey

There are obvious advantages to being a grumpy old man. Disregard for societal norms, the ability to say "Back in my day..." and of course, senior citizen discounts. But, when you are trying to tell the leaders of the world that a massive meteor is heading to earth and will probably kill us all, they might just ignore because you are a grumpy old man. Let's see how Claude Rains, in the twilight of his career, handles this dilemma, shall we?   Episode Show Notes The Bill Watches Movies Website Facebook Page Twitter Patreon Ko-Fi Listener Survey  

Happy Halloween! To celebrate this most awesome of holidays, I am, with permission, performing an wonderful essay written by David Colton, former editor at USA Today, and current Grand Poobah of The Rondo Awards and The Classic Horror Film Boards called "Monster Kids". It's an annual tradition for David to post the essay on the above CHFB every Halloween, and, with his kind permission, I have recorded it so that all us Monster Kids will have something awesome (or hopefully awesome) to listen to each year! Thank you to all my Patrons, all my subscribers and all my listeners! Enjoy David Colton's "Monster Kids". Episode Show Notes The Bill Watches Movies Website Facebook Page Twitter Patreon Ko-Fi Listener Survey

There comes a time in a man's life when he wants to settle down with a nice girl, but dating can be difficult for Mad Scientists without access to match.com, so they do what anyone else would do: Sew together a lifeless female body, zap it with electricity and bring it to life. Then have it do some light housekeeping, simple cooking, and of course, kill all your enemies upon command. It's Frankenstein in Suburbia! Let's take a look, shall we? Episode Show Notes The Bill Watches Movies Website Facebook Page Twitter Patreon Ko-Fi Listener Survey  

There are times in an Academy Award Winning Actor's life when they gotta put food on the table. I assume this is what Dean Jagger (Best Supporting Actor, 1949, "Twelve O'Clock High") was thinking when he signed on the dotted line for "X The Unknown". The movie itself was a blatant attempt to sidestep Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale's cease and desist from using his character; undeterred, Hammer basically filed the serial numbers off the script (renamed the character) and filmed it anyway. That's how we get a Best Supporting Actor waving around a Geiger counter and battling a giant blob that crawls up out of the earth and melts people's faces off. The Bill Watches Movies Website Episode Show Notes Facebook Page Twitter Patreon Ko-Fi Listener Survey  

When it comes to disaster movies, you tend to think of something Irwin Allen did in the 1970's. The Towering Inferno! A movie about a burning building that wants to kill you. The Poseidon Adventure! A movie about a sinking ship that wants to kill you. But, in 1957, Universal Pictures came up with a disaster movie well before Irwin Allen became Irwin Allen. It was called "The Monolith Monsters" and it was about giant rocks that want to kill you. That's right. Giant rocks. That want to kill you. The Bill Watches Movies Website Episode Show Notes Facebook Page Twitter Patreon Ko-Fi Listener Survey

In this somber, yet teen-filled vampire movie from 1958, Dracula - the King of All Vampires, The Lord of Darkness, Vlad the Impaler, decides to leave the moderate climate of Europe and, for some reason, settle down in a little podunk town in California populated with your Nana, your annoying little brother and your sullen teenage boyfriend. That's right, the most powerful supernatural creature known to man decides that he wants to downsize and retire to California where he can hit on young teenage girls and avoid going to church. The Bill Watches Movies Website Episode Show Notes Facebook Page Twitter Patreon Ko-Fi Listener Survey

Man (and woman) finally makes it to the moon and finds a dying race of leotard clad beatnik feminists bent on invading Earth and conquering everyone through seduction, mind control and teleportation.  Bonus points for interpretive dance and jazz flute music. Forget all that one giant leap for mankind nonsense, we have lithe, somewhat half-Vulcan women prancing about and scheming to take over Earth.  The only thing in their way is a team of manly men and one pretty awesome woman and two giant spiders that are controlled by fishing line. Peril abounds on the moon! All hail our Cat Woman overlords! The Bill Watches Movies Website Episode Show Notes Facebook Page Twitter Patreon Ko-Fi Listener Survey

We all know that staying out in the sun too long can be bad. Anything from awkward looking tan lines, to sunburn to sun poisoning can ruin your day. Turning into a murderous Sun Demon can really ruin your day, and your love life.  Filmed over 12 weekends with a $10,000 starting budget, and a crew of film students from USC, let’s listen to bad jazz, learn about mixing alcohol and science, and maybe the importance of sunscreen. The Bill Watches Movies Website Episode Show Notes Facebook Page Twitter Patreon Ko-Fi Listener Survey

In this Gothic, atmospheric gem from 1959, we have Beverly Garland as a new bride looking for her runaway husband.  She finds him, and more alligator filled swamp adventures than she bargained for.  Includes horror legend Lon Chaney Jr. as a hook handed drunk with questionable driving skills, a shack in sore need of a cleaning, and a vendetta against all alligators. The Bill Watches Movies Website Episode Show Notes Facebook Page Twitter Patreon Ko-Fi Listener Survey