Fairly salacious poster from the Brits for 1963!
A Hammer Horror film tonight! I do enjoy this one because it doesn’t really follow the well-trod path of traditional vampires. These vampires can run around in the day, for example.
In typical British Hammer Studios style, we have phenomenal sets, actual vintage cars, great parties and wonderful Eastman Color. And boy does this movie RIP! From the first five minutes, you get a shock and some bright red Hammer blood. Before you know it, vampires are everywhere and the rubber bats from Woolworth’s department store are flapping around on strings. I don’t really want to spoil anything, I want you to enjoy this so I will refrain from spoilers. Hopefully nobody has been haunting the Universal Monsters channel lately on streaming – they copped this about the time I chose to show it. The fiends!
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary until a flock of rubber denizens of the underworld leak bright red paint on your clothes! Next week, we have a nice find – a modern Irish vampire film entitled Let the Wrong One In.
Help! Plex is a strange thing and I don’t know what to do!
Yes, this is a different streaming service from our usual. PLEX doesn’t seem to ask you any membership questions. I haven’t really done a commercial content comparison, but I can imagine there are more on average than TUBI. Should you have any issues with PLEX, or gripes about it, our helpful Glib technicians are standing by to assist you. BY ASSIST MEAN…
“Fairly salacious poster from the Brits for 1963!”
Brits were always into boobs.
There were a fair number who didn’t. Shockingly not all were in the RN.
There is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy!
I must be a Brit.
“a modern Irish vampire film entitled Let the Wrong One In”
The Swedish Let The Right One In is great. The remake is crap.
Agreed. This is not a remake. It is only related by the fact there are vampires in both.
I think the hidden Private Snafu film has a snafu. If anyone else has problems let me know.
I downloaded it because I didn’t know if Plex would work. When I tried Pluto it kept getting stuck. No problems with Tubi or YouTube.
Yeah, I recently watched Attack on Pluto. On my Roku it played fine, but when I switched to my browser it had a lot of problems.
The TV isn’t even hooked up to the internet. I figure TCL is full of spyware. So I go HDMI out of my laptop.
The Roku boxes are. When we moved, our newest TV was still from before Mom died, so I decided on Roku boxes to make certain every TV had the same interface. Also cheaper than buying new TVs.
Any smart device could spy on you. The Smart TV panic was started by a government investigation which turned up nominal evidence that your watching habits could be monitored. Of the TV brands, TCL took the most steps to minimize this risk. And of those, the Roku version went even further, at one point banning YouTube for their invasive program that once installed would scan all your other apps and selections to derive suggestions. That is when I decided it is more an issue of what apps do once on your TV or smart box, than it is the hardware.
“Of the TV brands, TCL took the most steps to minimize this risk.”
I have trouble believing a Chinese TV is less spyish than a Japanese or Korean TV.
Also, Google is assho.
Yes. Google is assho.
I’m just irrationally proud that I figured out how to turn off my ad blocker so the vampire movie would play!
UR L33T Haxxor!
Nice! I will say that Plex seems to have more ads than TUBI. I was fifteen minutes in and got hit buy 7 ads. Still, it expands our content horizons.
The last two movies I watched on Tubi had 10-12 minutes of ads with a ~80-minute move. Pluto seems like it has more ads, but still less than traditional TV.
It’s a tossup now. What I find irritating is now Netflix and Amazon, who charge money for their ad-free services, will start showing ads. If you are paying cash, why watch ads? I think it will drive people away from pay services, not make them more fond of them.
got hit buy 7 ads
Hmmm
Heh. At least they have better ads. I just saw that Hilton ad where people went to stay at the creepy bed and breakfast full of dolls on the bed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYXpWf0X7Ho
I keep getting HealthCare.gov. Over and over again. 😒
Ugh.
It’s a vampire cult!!! (I’m running way behind.)
I will spoil NOTHING! You enjoy, I need to go to bed soon. I was out late last night at the Steel Panther show in Dallas. Wednesday, of all nights. No way I was going to miss Steel Panther.
Is that the hair metal band with their own pedal?
Yes. Example song:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hkqJN95imM8&list=OLAK5uy_lqo2JU5Jnx_j1-MdAxKPmRSHux51EIVO0&index=4&pp=8AUB
Pretty good gaslighting for folks in a house with just candles and torches.
I am thinking of making a run at becoming a Hollywood mogul. With all of the reboots, I thought I could pitch a reboot of First Blood, with Rambo as a gender and race-swapped veteran of a deployment to Wyoming where she faced racist and exist deplorables, making her battle hardened.
We move the bigoted sheriff to a small Mississippi town, and after Rambo kills off half the town, the FBI comes in and shuts down the local PD for systemic racism and appoints a trans-woman who recently immigrated from Haiti as sheriff. Maybe we throw in a lesbian love interest back story with the Army liason they bring in to assist…
Whaddaya think? Would they go for it? Or do we need to punch it up a bit?
GENIUS!
Now the real fun will be that you pitch it, get the money and leave. You don’t even have to make the film, just issue cryptic memos to newspapers about the status of the film for a year or two, then stop. PURE PROFIT!
I believe the hollywood types would think you are pitching a dream documentary.
Will be a bigger smash than “Springtime for Hitler.”
Mix reboots up
Heat of the Rambo
Mississippi Burning: First Blood
Gone with the Ramba
British Hammer Studios? I thought this was somehow going to be in The Hebrew Hammer universe.
Judy Greer stripped naked on an altar..,wait, what?
Tomorrow is America’s Firster’s Day.
I’ll bite. Why is Firster’s Day on the 17th?
Pleased to see a different Hammer is on Tubi
https://link.tubi.tv/t1n5BIx8EJb
Surprisingly sweet.
The Tubi app is on Tubi?
That links to Carolla’s “Hammer” for me. But I have the app installed.
Show off
I love Hammer Horror.
I have an adult beverage, Southern Comfort lemonade, and will nowenjoy.
Thanksm RJ.
Hum. I now see the adult beverage has kicked in. Maybe some grub…
That sounds good. 1:1 or different ratio? I haven’t had a bottle of SC in years.
Went to Total Wine today. What a shock. Wallet also took a shock.
It’s my happy place.
Did they have any Colonel EH Taylor in stock?
Morning, Glibs.
Mornin’
Good morning, U and Sean!
how goes?
Better now that I have my coffee. Pretty yawny this morning, but caffeine will help. How are you?
I hope I can make it through the workday, and will probably end up burning the weekend to fix my sleep schedule.
If I’m using my oscilliscope properly, the watch crystal signal on the current clock is a mess.
Big if.
I also want to just write something, but my workday is a half hour from starting.
How fast could you write some flash fiction?
I tend to overthink things.
🎵If you’re happy and you know it, overthink.
If you’re happy and you know it, overthink.
If you’re happy and you know it, and you really want to blow it,
If you’re happy and you know it, overthink.🎶 😉
It’s Friday! Wyd?
Get up and get at it!
🌄☕😁
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BblV6AQsd2s
🎶🎶
Good morning all!
Today we have the story of my like as told by Radiohead
Fitter, Happier
Share and enjoy!
A pig in a cage on antibiotics? Come on, it’s not that bad.
Like a cat tied to a stick driven into frozen Winter shit
Good morning, Beau!
Mornin’ GT!
Morning [grumble, grumble].
What nerve the sun has being up in the sky at this hour.
Good morning, JI! It can’t be as bad as all that – aren’t you retired, or am I misremembering that?
I am indeed. Dogs keep insisting on waking me to alert me that the sun is rising. I’ll be better with some coffee.
There is a cat that has decided to patrol through my yard at night. Lily does her best to scare it away from inside my house.
Our neighbors cat was in our yard this morning when I took the dogs out. Fortunately I had the puppy on a leash because he saw it immediately and would have tore after the cat and I’d still be trying to get him back to the house. The old lab either didn’t notice the cat or didn’t care.
There are reasons I don’t have a dog, that’s pretty high on the list. My neighbors have dogs, when I go outside I can enjoy the barking.
[coffee] Ah, good morning GT, NA, UCS, Sean, Stinky and Beau!
There ya go! 😃
I hope this tylenol takes care of the headache I woke up with.
I didn’t even get to have any fun to deserve it.
Oh, dear! I hope so too! 😟 Maybe too much blood in your caffeine stream?
Junior HS cafeteria – we are governed by morons.
The ruling caste, ladies and gentlemen!
I read the whole article. That’s the way to start a morning. Usually I’m still a little sleepy, grouchy, but those ladies, for lack of a more condescending word, really got to a geezer’s heart.
Like a fight in a school parking lot but without the racism spelled out. Touched all racial borders though, what’s not to like?
[Honest version of headline] Colleges, police blame ‘outside agitators’ for campus protests. Outside agitators say it’s not so simple
You know, you can’t trust colleges to actually know who their students are.
What I find much worse is that some colleges are folding to “student” demands based on protests staged by a tiny fraction of one percent of their population. What are they afraid of?
They WANT to do what the next generation of intellectuals tell them to do. They’re AFRIAD of losing donors, so all the divestments will happen over the summer when there’s no media coverage.
If we go by DC they are afraid they won’t be invited to the cool kids cocktail parties.
“They” started it.
At this point….
Someone, not involved, is going to pay for the disruption, taxpayers, the parents, the donors, the kids not participating. When the dust settles what will change? What should change?
Good morning! At least it is Friday. This week is ending.
*happy dance*