Thursday, June 11, 2015

#GHWP Live Tweet June 12, 2015 - Midnight Spectreman

    


This live tweet's episodes:
Episode 19 - Blood Drinking Monster Bakulah Appears
Episode 20 - Find Bakulah's Nest

     We're getting into some Hausu and The House Where Evil Dwells territory tonight.

Or we're filming a new Lionel Richie video.

     Real estate in Japan is difficult. Arthur, one of George's coworkers, is looking for a new home for himself and his pregnant wife, and he lucks out when George finds him a place in New Town (hey, I didn't write the scripts). There's no sign of any virgin-eating witches, demonic white cats, battery-operated crabs or insane feudal ghosts trapped in an eternal murder/suicide love triangle, but we do have vampire cyclops ants. Did the landlord know about them? Of course he did. Did he disclose it to the new homeowners? What do you think?

Bakulah the Vampire Cyclops Ant: when even two sci-fi horror tropes aren't enough.
     Dr. Gori pulls his latest scheme right out of a horror movie with Bakulah, a giant ant creature that drinks the blood of its human victims to turn them into mindless zombie slaves with a penchant for telekinetic interpretive dance. Just when Spectreman thinks the day is saved, he discovers that Gori's plan involves a breeding pair of Bakulah, and the queen Bakulah already has a nest somewhere loaded with eggs.

Continuing our peek into the history of Japanese superheroes, also expect to see some intro themes from Kamen Rider V3, Jak-Q Dengekitai, Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot, Ultraman, Super Robot Red Baron, and Bishoujo Kamen Poitrine. On an editorial note, it saddens me to see that Toei apparently has had a lot of official intro themes removed from YouTube. There are some good ones I just can't show you as a result, and I am having to dig a little deeper to find some of them. You can see clips and song material from series like Choujin Barom-1 and Choujin Bibyun, but the opening credits won't be on any of my GHWP playlists unfortunately.

The weirdness starts at 1AM EST after #BMovieManiacs.

Coming Soon: One week from tonight, June 19, 2015, Dynaman joins The Midnight Spectreman for a special live tweet event. Spectreman will be taking part in a one-episode free-for-all, leaving a gap in the typical two-episode format that the pre-Power Rangers Super Sentai series will fill quite nicely. Stay tuned for details in a later post.

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