This week on SVENGOOLIE...

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[LiamCasey]

This month on Svengoolie...

4/6: The Time Travelers (1964) w/ Preston Foster, Philip Carey, Merry Anders, John Hoyt and Dennis Patrick. Plus Delores Wells. And directed by Ib Melchior.

4/13: Island of Terror (1966) w/ Peter Cushing, Edward Judd and Carole Gray. And directed by Terence Fisher.

4/20: The Wolf Man (1941) w/ Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy, Warren William, Patrick Knowles, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya and Evelyn Ankers. With screenplay by Curt Siodmak. And directed by George Waggner (or is that george waGGner?).

4/27: Trilogy of Terror (1975) w/ Karen Black. Written by Richard Matheson and William F. Nolan. And directed by Dan Curtis. Just in case you missed it last October. And last September.

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[LiamCasey]

This month on Svengoolie...

5/4: The Land That Time Forgot (1974) w/ Doug McClure, John McEnery and Susan Penhaligon. Screenplay by James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock (and based upon a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs). And directed by Kevin Connor.

5/11: House of Frankenstein (1944) w/ Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, J. Carrol Naish, John Carradine, Anne Gwynne, Peter Coe, Lionel Atwill, George Zucco, Elena Verdugo and Sig Ruman. Plus Frank Reicher and Glenn Strange. And directed by Erle C. Kenton.

5/18: Scream Blacula Scream (1973) w/ William Marshall, Don Mitchell, Pam Grier and Michael Conrad. And directed by Bob Kelljan.

5/25: Destroy All Monsters (1969) w/ Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki, Yukiko Kobayashi and Yoshio Tsuchiya. And, needless to say, Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, King Ghidorah and other kaiju. And directed by Ishirō Honda.

[Swithin]

This month on Svengoolie...

5/4: The Land That Time Forgot (1974) w/ Doug McClure, John McEnery and Susan Penhaligon. Screenplay by James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock (and based upon a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs). And directed by Kevin Connor.

5/11: House of Frankenstein (1944) w/ Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, J. Carrol Naish, John Carradine, Anne Gwynne, Peter Coe, Lionel Atwill, George Zucco, Elena Verdugo and Sig Ruman. Plus Frank Reicher and Glenn Strange. And directed by Erle C. Kenton.

5/18: Scream Blacula Scream (1973) w/ William Marshall, Don Mitchell, Pam Grier and Michael Conrad. And directed by Bob Kelljan.

5/25: Destroy All Monsters (1969) w/ Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki, Yukiko Kobayashi and Yoshio Tsuchiya. And, needless to say, Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, King Ghidorah and other kaiju. And directed by Ishirō Honda.

I like both House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula, but I never can remember which is which. One has the hunchback nurse; the other the hunchback J. Carroll Naish. I think it's the Naish film that Sven is showing.

Destroy All Monsters has a very cute ending: the arrival of the suddenly benevolent Japanese monsters.

[LostHorizons]

Destroy All Monsters is terrible.

Not so fun fact: it is the lowest rated movie in the Criterion collection both on IMDB and on Letterboxd.

[Bronxgirl48]

Swithin, I used to get confused as well with those hunchback characters. Your "hunch" (sorry) is correct -- Naish is the one in HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN. He falls in love with a gypsy girl (Elena Verdugo, who has eyes for someone else...) Poor Daniel.

[LiamCasey]

Destroy All Monsters is terrible.

Not so fun fact: it is the lowest rated movie in the Criterion collection both on IMDB and on Letterboxd.

Won't disagree with you. But it was the first Godzilla movie that I ever saw on the big screen and that was when I was the ideal age for such a movie. So it gets a pass from me just on the basis of nostalgia.