I’ve been enjoying del Toro’s work since his debut feature Cronos (1993) and loved most of his work since then. This might be a little older news, but when I read about a new series that he has created for Netflix, I was immediately intrigued. The series is called either Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, or just 10 After Midnight (which is how it is listed on IMDB), which is going to consist of 10 different episodes, each helmed by a different director. Though I think del Toro himself will be directing an episode himself.

For me, this holiday is really about Turkey Day, my marathon of cinematic shipwrecks that I’ve been doing for almost two decades (which I hope you can join us tomorrow!). But no matter what your beliefs or feelings about the actual Thanksgiving, it should be a time to think about what you are thankful for. Granted, we shouldn’t have to wait until one day a year for it and should think and appreciate that every single day. But here are a few things that I am thankful for.

While Thanksgiving is in a couple of days, where quite a few of us will be stuffing our faces with enough food to put us into a food coma, the real event in this Friday: Turkey Day 2021! Make sure you are well rested because we have some . . . uh . . . great titles lined up for this year’s marathon. Some of these might test your will as well as hope for humanity, but we are professionals. What doesn’t kill you, and all that stuff.

The Kosmi room will open up at 9am with an hour full of trailers. This will give you plenty of time to get logged in, hooked up, or whatever else you need to do to be ready by 10am, because that is when the first feature will start.

Here is the link to the Kosmi Room: https://app.kosmi.io/room/draqzn. When you check in, if it doesn’t let you put in your name, please announce who you are, just so everyone is not trying to guess. Makes it a little easier. Just remember to have fun and enjoy the films!

Here is our schedule for the features:

• 9am – Trailers
• 10am: Feature #1 – Features one of the great horror icons from the ’30s
• 11:30am: Feature #2 – Perfect example of showing that just because you can shoot a couple of music videos, doesn’t mean you can make a movie
• 1:15pm: Feature # 3 – We go south of the border for one of the most unusual monsters on film
• 2:45pm: Feature #4 – Off to Italy with an all-star (maybe not BIG stars to most) cast of actors and monsters
• 4:30pm: Feature #5 – Back to the states and to Florida. Like catfish?
• 6:15pm: Feature #6 – Now out of the water and into the . . . well, probably shouldn’t

Don’t forget folks, just to make sure everything is working, we’re going to be screening a trial film on Saturday at noon (CST). This will give you a chance to log in to make sure you can see and hear everything. It will be only one movie too. You can obviously stay for the whole feature or just check in to make sure everything works. The plan will be starting at 12pm sharp.

The link for it will be the same for the actual Turkey Day on Friday the 26th, which is:

https://app.kosmi.io/room/draqzn

Hope to see you there, as well as on the actual Turkey Day. I’ve got some great films lined up for then that you are not going to want to miss!

It has definitely been crazy these last few months here at the Krypt, especially this one. It seems I always end up so busy that it is hard to find time to celebrate and enjoy the holiday. But I did force myself to at least get in 31 movies this month. I’ve been a little laxed the last couple of months so I wanted to make sure I could at least average 1 a day during October.

But now that our convention season has come to an end, that part of our lives will slow down at least until March. Of course, that just means I need to get to work on all the other projects I’ve got brewing! Plenty more articles to write, books to read & review, and definitely more movies to watch! Plus, now that Halloween is over, that means the planning for this year’s Turkey Day Marathon needs to start! Still no details on if we’re going back to a live event or will continue to do it online, or both. Stay tuned for more details on that.

So from everyone here at the Krypt, we wish everyone out there a huge and Happy Halloween! Stay safe, be a little kinder to each others (especially people we don’t know), watch more horror movies, and definitely keep Discovering the Horror!

Next weekend, we’re heading back to Mars, PA for the return of the Monster Bash Conference, taking place on October 22^nd to the 24^th! It has been two years since their last show, and we are so excited to be making our own return. We always have so much fun there and are looking to do it all over once again. Since this is our last show of the year, so we want to make it one mother of a show!

They have an incredible guest list slated for this show, one that I’m especially excited about. That would be Victoria Vetri, who happened to star in Hammer’s When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970), which means I can add one more autograph to my Hammer Filmography book. This will be the 17^th signature from people that worked with the famous Studio that Dripped Blood. As you can imagine, this book is a very prized title in my library, especially since quite a few that have signed it has passed away since then.