Free-For-All Saturday Thread!
Happy Saturday!
This is a Free-For-All Thread, so talk about whatever you want!
…but can I also mention how much I’ve loved Dino Drac After Dark this summer? I admit that I haven’t been as active on the main site during Cruel Summer as I’d planned to be, but this place sure has been hopping. Thanks, all!
(And as for the main site — lots of new stuff coming! Looks like I’ll run through July with Cruel Summer before taking a little time away to prepare for the you-know-what. I still have a few big things I wanted to cover for this event, though, so stay tuned!)
Here’s a little background music for the night…
I know I’ve run it before, but whatever, it’s pretty much my favorite thing ever. Enjoy Freddy’s Greatest Hits, the Elm Street novelty album that is SO MUCH BETTER than anyone could’ve reasonably expected. I still listen to this constantly, by the way.
Vampires on Bikini Beach!
If you only check out Dino Drac After Dark every so often, you picked a good night!
Tonight’s video was generously uploaded and suggested by Ginyu Recoome, and it’s a doozy.
It’s the 1993 USA Up All Night broadcast of Vampires on Bikini Beach, WITH commercials, hosted by Gilbert Gottfried!
This could not be more perfect for Dino Drac’s Cruel Summer — on a stormy Friday night, no less!
Empire of the Ants!
Just got back from seeing Ant-Man and the Wasp, which I really enjoyed. It’s a small movie by MCU standards, but that’s kind of the point. Tight story, great casting, and it has just enough ties to the “bigger ideas” for it not to exist in a bubble. Totally worth seeing.
That movie inspired tonight’s pick, obviously:
Here’s Empire of the Ants, from 1977. Named after H.G. Wells’s short story but only partially based on it, this is a bad movie by objective measures, but one I love all the same.
I rented this on video way back when, probably because it was classified as a “sci-fi” rather than a “horror” movie — and thus shelved in the same vicinity as Star Wars. I have such fond memories of watching this silly movie during long, summer nights. I guess it’s mostly famous for being bad, but it’s still about giant killer ants, and that was enough to guarantee repeat rentals.
PS: Yes, that’s Joan Collins in there.
Casual Holiday Thread.
Happy 4th! By now, many of you are facing the harsh realization that you have work tomorrow. Gross!
Here, have some conciliatory fireworks:
This is a Free-For-All Thread. Talk about whatever!
