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For those that missed Svengoolie last night, my patriotic Kerwyn art was featured! Hope everyone has had a safe Fourth of July! #svengoolie #svenpals #lovesven

Happy 4th of July to all 10.5 thousand members of this group! If only there was a way to take the findings of a mad scientist, and use the powers of invisibility to benefit the people. Sven says in his description, this movie was intended to be a sci-fi thriller and morale booster at the time that it was made.

My dad was like 6 years old when this came out, I don’t think he saw it at the theatre at that age, this is the same year Casablanca came out. He loved movies, including the monsters and Bogart.

Your thoughts and connections to the movie, to the era, to Agents of Independence, your play for how you will spend the 4th are welcome here.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-monsters-that-made-us/id1534254369?i=1000546557012
If anybody wants to hear a podcast on Invisible Agent, here you go.

And now, an artwork of the Svengoolie “S” filled with the movies that #svengoolie featured on the show! #lovesven #svenpals

First, big shout out to Mikevsgodzilla who graciously gifted me these autographed artist series trading cards!

When I brought them home, hubby said I should get them framed. Found this on Amazon and it showcases the cards very nicely.

I eventually want to get Rich to sign his artwork, hopefully at Flashback.

Thanks again Mike!!

Rubber chicken multiball!!

Tonight, we do not destroy a couple of monsters, not a few monsters, not many monsters, not most of the monsters. Tonight is the night to Destroy All Monsters. Sorta similar to House of Dracula or House Frankenstein, kinda like an MCU movie, this one is full of big names.
Have you seen it, have you not? Do you have a favorite monster in this film? Do you have any stories to tell about your connection to the movie?
For me, any Kaiju movie takes me back to being a kid and in December of 1980 pushing the tape recorder up to the tv to record Son Of Svengoolie. The distinct monster rawrs, and Sven’s jokes, right there.

Now that we're halfway through the year. I want to share my favorite Svengoolie showings from each month.

January - King Kong vs Godzilla: I honestly wasn't a big fan of Destroy All Monsters. And as someone trying dipping their toes into the Godzilla franchise. This is my favorite movie from it so far. The stands out were Ichirō Arishima's performance. As well as the suits, while ugly as heck! The suit actors did a great job and Godzilla and Kong's final fight was my favorite scene! I also liked seeing Kong strangle while he's being carried. He really said"Let me go so I can catch my fade!"

February - The War of the Worlds: I learned about the radio version of the story in college so I'm glad I got to watch this. There's a lot of technical talk and it lost my attention at some points. But visually it's stunning. Everything is black with accents of red, blue and green. And the effects for the most part still hold up.

March - Friday the 13th: While some of the deaths feeling a bit half-assed like with Brenda's and Steve's, I really enjoyed this showing. "Ki-ki-ki-ki Ma-ma-ma-ma"was a new vocal stim for me for a while. And the ending with Jason caught me so off guard in the best way! I also find it funny that this whole situation could have been avoided if someone said to Voorhees"Sorry to hear about your son"

April - How to Make a Monster: I will die on the hill that this movie deserves more love! It was such an interesting plot point and quite sad to see how Pete only viewed Larry and Tony as the Teenage Werewolf and Teenage Frankenstein. He essentially groomed them. Maybe it's cause Svengoolie was lucky enough to get the final scene in color which added to my enjoyment. But I don't know, I actually like this a lot!

May - Earth vs The Spider: You know, I'm a simple man. All I need is a giant, supernatural, unsuspecting thing terrorizing a bunch of dumb people from the 1950s to make me happy. This was the only showing from May that I actually liked honestly. The scene where the spider terrorizes the town happens quite early in the film, so I was worried that everything after was just going to be boring and purely to kill time, but no! The scene where Kingman saves his wife and child from the spider was really good and the plot point of Claire's birthday gift was even better. I wish we got a sequel where as Kingman says"Some dumb kid digs him up"cause I think it would kill, no pun intended (well, maybe).

June - Time of their Lives: I doubted this movie at first cause I thought the whole thing was going to be set in the 1700s. But someone get me a poka dot afro and a red nose cause I feel like a clown. I should've known Lou and Bud would never let me down!(Even though I saw one other film from them lol.) Seeing Horatio and Melody's ghost shenanigans and tom foolery was a real treat.