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31 Days of Halloween 2026! Day XII: The Invisible Man Appears (1949, Nobuo Adachi), The Invisible Man Vs. The Human Fly (1957, Mitsuo Muramaya)

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Two adaptations of the iconic H.G. Wells character from Daiei Studios, these tokusatsu films tread a familiar path but were fairly entertaining in their own right, and it’s great to see Arrow Video releasing them outside of Japan for the first time. 3/5, 3/5
 
31 Days of Halloween 2026! Day XIII: Phase IV (1974, Saul Bass), Forbidden World (1982, Allan Holzman)

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Two more sci-fi horror offerings this evening, the first being PIV from Saul Bass, best known as a legendary graphic designer for many major Hollywood productions. This was his only directorial outing and it’s rather memorable as an environmental horror and creature feature.

FW, meanwhile, was very much a campy Roger Corman-produced Alien rip-off which was fun and schlocky. 4/5, 3/5
 
31 Days of Halloween! Day XIV: Rats: Night of Terror (1984, Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso), Deadly Friend (1986, Wes Craven)

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Two creature-features this evening, with R: NoT living up to its namesake as a fairly typical Bruno Mattei trashy offering which was unexpectedly very entertaining, portraying a post-apocalyptic world wherein red-eyed rats are an ever-present threat.

DF meanwhile was a film from the late Wes Craven, and focuses on a teenage girl who is resurrected with technology by her neighbour after tragedy strikes. It’s a flawed movie that was a victim of studio interference but there’s a great concept that’s trying to shine through. 3.5/5, 3/5
 
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31 Days of Halloween 2026! Day XV: Begotten (1989, E. Elias Merhige), 964 Pinocchio (1991, Shozin Fukui)

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Two f*cked up watches tonight, firstly the cryptic, experimental and uncomfortable Begotten, which (according to interpretation) depicts the life and death of Mother Nature, the origins of life itself, and from what I could interpret, humanities relationship with nature and the world. A truly bizarre watch that I could only describe as reminiscent of the earlier horror films in cinema’s history, not least because of how worn out the film looked, as if it were an ancient relic passed forward through history.

964 Pinocchio, meanwhile, lends itself to cyberpunk and horror with a sex-slave cyborg’s aimless wanderings which escalate and spiral into a visceral climax. All in all, two very different and great, if at times cryptic, watches. 4/5, 4/5
 
31 Days of Halloween 2026! Day XVI: Ghoulies (1984, Luca Bercovici), Ghoulies II (1987, Albert Band), Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College (1990, John Carl Buechler), Ghoulies IV (1994, Jim Wynorski)
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It’s a Ghoulies-a-thon this evening as these cheesy creature-features not only got four films but even got into College too apparently. The first film focuses on satanic cults and rituals, and Jack Nance is here too. GII takes itself altogether less seriously as the little buggers become an attraction for a dying funfair, whilst GIII takes on a campus setting and GIV takes them to L.A. for an especially poor outing.

These are, as I expected, a mixed bag of cheesy fun, with GII being the best film and GIV being the worst, and I didn’t exactly have my expectations all that high and had some fun in the process. 2.5/5, 3/5, 2.5/5, 1.5/5
 
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