Double Argento on the Drive-In Asylum Double Feature!
We’re unleashing two astounding Argento films on you this Saturday at 8 PM on the Groovy Doom Facebook page. Up first, Argento’s freakout devoted to orangutans, bug loving teenagers, women with deformed children and, as always, heads getting cut clean off. We could only be talking about Phenomena. Inga and Jennifer 1/2 oz. 99 Bananas 3 […]
Countess Dracula’s Orgy of Blood (2004)
Way back in 1897, a man named Dumas (Mark Bedell) loses his sister Roxanne (Kennedy Johnson, Tomb of the Werewolf) to the fangs of Diana Ruthven (Gloria Anne-Gilbert, who hosted a series of releases as Morella Ghost Hostess with the Mostest, including House of Evil, The Blood Seekers, Disciple of Death, Blood Vision and Terror In the Crypt). Turning to Padre […]
Vampire at Midnight (1987)
If Harry Hope, who combined disco and hicksploitation in Smokey and the Judge were here, he’d say” “So why not Spaghetti Westerns and R&B. I can see the tagline now: ‘The first R&B Western . . . Blazing Saddles with a beat to move your feet.’” “Oh, yeah? Not if I produce it first, Hopie.” […]
Beverly Hills Vamp (1989)
Oh, Elke Sommer and Britt Ekland, oh, how I love thee both. Let me count the ways. The way I confuse your German bombshellness and Swedish beauty and mixed up your credits and get a quarter-way into a review and realize that I credited babe Elke — with her also ’90s low-budget horror doppelganger Severed […]
Planet of the Vampires (1965)
American-International Pictures had made some money in the U.S. with Mario Bava’s Black Sunday and Black Sabbath. It just made sene for Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson to gain more control by producing the films themselves instead of just buying the rights. Working with Italian International Film and Spain’s Castilla Cooperativa Cinematográfica, AIP provided the services […]
Nightwing (1979)
Martin Cruz Smith may be best known for his Arkady Renko books, which start with Gorky Park, but he also wrote the book that this vampire bat movie is based on. It has the tagline “Day belongs to man, but night is theirs!” and is much closer to Jaws than any Dracula film. Arthur Hiller directed and he was […]
Rockula (1990)
Luca Bercovici was behind The Ghoulies and The Granny as well as this movie, where a 400-year-old vampire named Ralph Lavie (Dean Cameron). He lives alone with his mother Phoebe (Toni Basil!) and is suffering from a curse. It turns out that every time he falls for Mona, she’s killed on Halloween by a pirate with a […]
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