April Ghouls 2025- Saturday Night Dating

Saturday night was a big to do. Patty Mullen The star of FRANKENHOOKER and DOOM ASYLUMwas in the house signing autographs and talking to people.

Thankfully the rain held off and the  movies went off without a hitich.

Earlier in the day Joe and I ran around and did some shopping. Along the way we stumbled upon the Big Mac Museum.

Yes its a real thing. Actually what it is is a big ass Mc Donald's with some displays in it.  It's actually pretty cool and Joe and I made an effort to have a nosh and look at everything.

At the drive in Joe spent most of the preshow time on the phone with his office. I too ended up on the phone as well talking to friends.

Saturday group photo taken from the Drive In Monsterama Facebook page

Mostly I just wandered around and watched people wandering in to see Patty Mullens.  The audience was thrilled and she was wonderful.  Watching her interact, even during the group photo was a delight.

As showtime approached Joe and I finally grabbed a bite to eat and hunkered down for the films.

FRANKENHOOKER is a great deal of fun. The story of a scientist who builds a new body for his girlfriend after she is killed in a lawnmower accident. He uses the bodies of hookers but it all goes wrong. 

Bloody and funny in all the right ways, this really isn’t a horror film but a wicked comedy sending up the horror tropes.

DOOM ASYLUM sucks. One of the worst films I’ve ever seen it was a chore to get through. It killed my desire to go later into the night.

Nominally the film is about a psycho who survived being autopsied alive killing people at an old asylum, it is a movie trailer stretched to 90 minutes.  While its intended to be a send up, it never works because no one takes it seriously. Worse the film has long stretches where nothing happens or where we have to watch random clips from a number of Tod Slaughter films cut into the film as filler. I love Slaughter and his films, and seeing them savaged did them a disservice and shows the filmmakers to be heathen. 

I hate this film with a passion and I have no idea  why it was programmed other than Patty Mullens was in it.

Both Joe and I were done  for the night because of its badness and we headed home