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Ya I get the feeling you'll be hard pressed to find it, with Toho copy rights and all.

Quick short and to the point. I loved Conan the Destroyer as a kid. By about the time I was 18 I finally started to see how bad it was, though the music is still great, to bad most of the rest is really yawn fest.

Heh, I haven't had a job in 4 years and I still do both unless it's PC then well, there is this thing called Steam. $30 games for about $5? Ya I'll keep my eyes peeled.

I have netflix too, but I'll be damned if I will give up years of collecting my library of movies (currently godzilla is covering almost the entire back of it's own small shrine with figures. Then there are two stacks about foot and half tall in front of my entertainment system, then the rest of my computer desk and about quarter of my dresser is covered in them.)

I agree with that last statement, and the fact that they got rid of the trailers due to that. Last time I was out I also got that Puppet Master Kill Joy collection. With it I got
Godzilla VS Biollante,
Day the Earth Stood Still (Original and remake set)
a bible sized collection of H.P. Lovecraft.
The BBC Narnia TV collection,
infamous 2,
And Fist of the North Star Ken's Rage.

The Ring. What a watered down load. I remember guys my age going "Ohh I couldn't sleep all night after seeing it." While I"m sitting there going "really? Night of the Living Dead was a far more frightning movie."

To which I must go with my stand by of "You just don't get it I guess." Which tends to be the main line for the fans to those who have no love for it. But another part I like is that the Brothers who made it, and the special effects/makeup makers also were mildly (at least) afraid of clowns themselves.

Oh ya, with "VS Demonic Toys" which isn't numbered, but ya there sort of is 11 of them.

Not sure if it's a Guilty Pleasure, I feel no guilt over loving it. But I LOVE Killer Klowns from Outer Space. The firs reason I must love it it that one of my High School teachers (and a Base Ball coach) was afraid of clowns his whole life due to that movie. Also I'm wearing my Killer Klowns shirt right now come to think of it.

OH! And another one that pisses me off to no end. People who diss Feeding Frenzy when they have obviously never seen it. It's a parody of the small monster movies of the 80's made by some guys who normally do web shows, but put the cash together every couple of years to make another movie. I laughed my way through a good portion of the film for all the right reasons. And when we showed it at a convention the people who actually watched it also seemed to enjoy themselves.

I do recall seeing posters online for the Cthulhu movie for some reason. Probably something I should look into one of these days. Also I should suspect that when I finally run out of stuff for my "Matt Watches" show that I may have to hit upon the old public domain Universal classics till I find something else.

I don't think you missed anything with the Giant monsters. Only Godzilla and Gamera ever had long standing movies. And I normally count Ultraman films as long multipart episodes.
However you did miss out on the Puppet Master series which is about to hit it's 10th film if I'm not mistaken.

Ya, but still every reviewer I've seen take them on has blasted them as boring or crap. Apparently they haven't seen the remakes.

You know what I really liked, but I've never seen any love for? Halloween 4-5. It was Mike's great return to the series and actually had a good 2 part plot that left things open for the next people (who sadly botched it with 6 then tried to recover with H20). But there was just so much opened up in these films, even getting to see Michael use something other then one handed weapons for once. Oh and the girl nailed to the wall with a shot gun. Fantastic!

Well I have watched more then my fair share of Silent films, while I have not yet seen Dr. Calgari (on my to do list) I have seen Nosferatu and Metropolis along with a number of other things. The germans really did pionear surreal feelings into movies both through odd makeup and very strange and sureal set designs.

Some of the best notes from me would be the above mentioned two, and quickly fallowed with Dante's Inferno. Each film being slightly older then the last and showing a wide veriaty of new ideas to make special effects.

Nosferatu was a huge landmark in both stop motion (when a cover on the ground covers up the Count's crate again) and on set special effects (see also when he walks though coffin sized doors, perfectly made for the actor, and also the shot or two when he rises up out of the coffin using a bar strapped to his back and hidden down one leg, making him rise from sleeping to a standing position, a trick that would not be used again for some time).

Next would be Metropolis, using both the first animated special effects when the robot is changed into Maria, and again when you see people running through the streets it is the first time a model was ever used in front of a camera, and the people were actually running in the back ground behind the camera, the people running the modle were actually a reflection of the real people. And the use of massive outdoor sets only added to huge scale of the film, something that would not be copied untill Univeral finally started to get money, and built sets on it's lot.

And finally Dante's Inferno. Taking both the animation ideas of Metropolis, and adding even more outlandish practicle effects (men being nothing more then heads or running torsos made possible by tricks used with black curtens) as well as quick cuts while not moving the camera making some more smei stop motion effects as well.