Synopsis from the MeTV website… “The calving of an Arctic iceberg releases a giant praying mantis, trapped in suspended animation since prehistoric times. It first attacks military outposts to eat their occupants, then makes its way to the warmer latitudes … Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 4/12/2025: The Deadly Mantis
Tonight we celebrate the greatest attraction in Disney history. On April 5th 1998 Disney World opened The Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management), an update to the opening day attraction that gave the people what they really wanted, Gilbert Gottfried … Continue reading The Enchanted Night Thread (Under New Management)
Synopsis from the MeTV website… “When an abused socialite grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.” Enjoy the movie! Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 4/5/2025: Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
I’m on my last day of house-sitting (so, packing, last minute cleaning, and a little more time with Smokey) so tonight’s thread is simple. Here’s a cool webcam – underwater, below a private dock “in the lower Florida Keys”. Come … Continue reading The Night Thread Watches Fishies
Synopsis from the MeTV website… “Aliens from Planet X request the use of Godzilla and Rodan to fight off King Ghidorah, but have a better use for the three monsters.” Enjoy the movie! Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 3/29/2025: Godzilla vs. Monster Zero
Did you know the Goo Goo Dolls began their career as a punk rock cover band called Sex Maggot? Judging from the fact these two videos combined have less than 10K views, not many people do. From their self-titled first … Continue reading But Wait, There’s Still More Goo Goo Dolls On The Night Thread
The beatings John Rzeznik will continue until more people sign up for headers. I stumbled on this video because I was trying to match beinggreen’s night thread, but it’s actually kind of cool. It’s from a now-obscure early 2000s DirecTV … Continue reading The Day Thread Feasts On Goo Goo Dolls
In our probably final but no promises entry in the impromptu series on Snow White musicals, we have Snow White: An Enchanting Musical. First performed in 2004 at Disneyland’s Fantasyland Theatre, this was one of Disney’s periodic attempts to have … Continue reading The Night Thread: An Enchanting Musical
I love Creature, but Sven…you run it way too often. Synopsis from the MeTV website… “A scientific expedition searching for fossils along the Amazon River discover a prehistoric Gill-Man in the legendary Black Lagoon. The explorers capture the mysterious creature, … Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 3/22/2025: Creature From The Black Lagoon
Continuing our impromptu series on Snow White musicals…did you know Disney had a stage musical in New York well over a decade before Beauty and the Beast was a hit in the nineties? In the seventies, Radio City Music Hall … Continue reading The Night Thread Live At Radio City Music Hall
Synopsis from the MeTV website… “A professor leads an expedition into the Amazonian jungle to find dinosaurs.” AND THEN! “An evil puppeteer targets psychics using his deadly marionettes.” Enjoy the movies! Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 3/15/2025: The Lost World AND Puppet Master
Comedian George Lowe passed away this week. As the voice of the title character in Space Ghost Coast to Coast, he helped influence the sense of humor of an entire generation of nerds. One thing I didn’t know until a … Continue reading The Night Thread Can Bake One Heck Of An Apple Brown Betty
Synopsis from the MeTV website… “A psychically gifted young woman discovers a centuries-old crate buried on her aunt’s ranch. Opening it, her family discovers the living head of Gideon Drew, a 16th century devil worshiper who was beheaded by Sir … Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 3/8/2025: The Thing That Couldn’t Die
I threatened Snow White content yesterday, and boy howdy am I about to deliver. 1987 was the fiftieth anniversary of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Disney predictably capitalized on it with a theatrical re-release, a new parade, and … Continue reading Singin’, Dancin’, Night Thread!
Synopsis from the MeTV website… “Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.” Enjoy the movie! Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 03/1/2025: Dan Curtis’ Dracula
It’s 10:50PM and I forgot to make a thread. Whoops. Have fun posting! Continue reading Night Thread
Synopsis from the MeTV website… “An experimental lab animal called a gargantua escapes from his captors and is suspected to be the creature that is killing people all over the countryside. But when the gargantua from the lab appears at … Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 02/22/2025: The War of the Gargantuas
“Misbehaving” by Henriette Ronner Knip, 1897. Image and description from the KMSKA (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp) website, reproduced under Creative Commons license. At the end of the 19th century pet cats became increasingly common in the salons of … Continue reading The Night Thread is Misbehaving
Synopsis from the MeTV website… “A famed herpetologist bends the laws of nature experimenting with the transformation of man into snake.” AND THEN! “An alien and a teenager in love must save the Earth before it becomes the food source … Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 02/15/2025: Sssssss AND Teenagers From Outer Space
