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Mystery Photo 2-26

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Welcome to our last Monday of February 2024. Convention season is almost upon us, and I know I can speak a lot of us fans, we’re chomping at the bit to get to hang out with other like-minded people. I know I am. But in the meantime, let’s past some time with a little pictorial puzzle, shall we? Before we get to this week’s photo, let’s review our last one. It is from First Man Into Space (1959), which I’ve always been a fan of this one. My first experience with this was in It Came from Hollywood (1982), the pre-cursor to MST3K, where Gilda Radner called our crispy astronaut the ‘Burnt Casserole Man’, which was forever ingrained in my brain! But for fans of ’50s sci-fi / horror films, I still think it holds up and is still an entertaining film. Kudos to the following for sending in the correct answer: Hoby Abernathy, Aaron Christensen, Dave Fronto, Kevin Hart, Bob Hartman, Troy Howarth, Neil Kloster, Lee Nattrass, Bryan Senn, and Mike Shields. Well done!

Okay, so this one is a little newer than 1959, but that’s the only clue I’ll give you. Take a look, see what you think, and then send me your guess in an email to jon@kitleyskrypt.com. Good Luck!

Movie Review: The Brain from Planet Arous

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(1957)
Directed by Nathan Juran
Starring John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller, Thomas Browne Henry

During my time working at a movie theater, It Came from Hollywood (1982) played there, which was sort of like a pre-MST3K concept, with comedians like Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, and a few others, making jokes over scenes of different cheesy movies. There were a ton of titles that I saw little bits of for the first time there, The Brain from Planet Arous being one of them.

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Turkey Day 2014

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t-day2014 003For our 12th Annual Turkey Day Marathon, we had a record number of 13 crazy movie fans that came out this year to celebrate this crazy tradition that I started back in 2003. We had both regulars and a few T-day virgins this year, but I’m sure those will even be back next year. We got through another 7 movies this time, which I think is becoming the standard now. Plus, I think this event really showed what Turkey Day is all about. Yes, it is about watching and enjoying movies that your normal movie scholars would turn their nose up in disgust, but it is much more and this year really put the spotlight on those reasons. Besides the movies, it is about community. It is about a group of individuals of all ages, assembled together to watch some enjoyable ‘bad’ movies. The laughing going on throughout the day showed that we all had that same connection when it comes to these kind of movies and knew that it really is about having a good time with them with other like-minded film fans. Hearing the roars of laughter coming from everyone throughout the day reminded me of this each and every time, as well as the looks of “what did I just see?” that make these events so enjoyable.

This year our T-Day regulars that made it were Joe Wallace, Jason Coffman, Neil Calderone, Brian Fukula, Craig Clark, and Aaron Christensen, who was making this his 10th year coming. Putrid himself, Matt Carr made a glorious return after his last appearance back in 2009. Our T-Day Virgins were Sharon Gissy, and my son’s Nick’s friends Austin Robinson, Max Nolan & Charlie Morrison. Nick was there as well, when he wasn’t helping his mother in the kitchen creating one of the 17 pizzas we devoured throughout the day, which included breakfast pizzas, veggie pizzas, crab rangoon pizza, a spaghetti & meatball pizza (affectionately named the Drunken Billy) and a chili dog pizza, which was my favorite of the day. Major kudos as usual going out to my wife Dawn who created all of these (with Nick’s help) and always kept us wondering what was going to be next. It wouldn’t be a T-Day event without her and the glorious food that she creates for us. Okay…lets get to the movies!

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