Sunny Side Up (2017)
Written and directed by Mike Melo, Sunny Side Up is all about Gregory Samuel, a funeral director whose never-ending internal monologue is keeping him from experiencing anything close to a normal life. Given a leave of abscense from his work to figure it all out, he locks himself in his apartment for thirty days, but ends […]
Repost: Car Crash (1981)
Editor’s Note: This review ran on October 14, 2020, as part of the 2020 Scarecrow Psychotonic Challenge. In our quest to catalog all manner of car flicks from the video fringe, we’re reposting the review as part of our “Fast and Furious Week: Part Deux.” If you’re going to make a race car movie in […]
HAVE A HOLLY JOLLY DRIVE-IN ASYLUM DOUBLE FEATURE!
Hey, did you know it’s Christmas soon? We did and that’s why you’re getting a holiday movie every week along with something else, all December from the two of us. We’ll be at the Groovy Doom Facebook page at 8 PM East Coast Time, so make sure to “like” the page so you get an […]
Fast Charlie . . . the Moonbeam Rider (1979)
During the 1920s, a World War I veteran and deserter Charlie (Steve McQueen) wants to be the first person to win a transnational motorcycle race. Romance and adventure ensues as Charlie picks up a woman (Brenda Vaccaro) and her son as he pursues the big win. Wait . . . what? That’s not Steve McQueen […]
Pit Stop (1969)
There’s no pit stop in this movie, which is based on figure 8 racing, which features a track that purposely intersects itself, increasing the risk of collisions. That inspired Jack Hill, who originally wanted to call this The Winner. Rick is an amateur drag racer who is in a racing feud with Hawk Sidney (an impossibly […]
The California Kid (1974)
A Universal and NBC-TV co-production starring Nick Nolte, Martin Sheen and Vic Morrow? And there’s a car . . . with chases that rival 1968’s Bullit? I’m all in. Gentlemen (and Ladies) start your VCRs! The Sheriff Roy Childress (a bastardly-cool Vic Morrow) makes bank on how much the local judge can fine the unsuspecting […]
Drive-In Friday: Drag Racing ’70s Docs Night
Don “The Snake” Prudhomme and Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen were gods to us kids in the ’70. We bought the racing magazines and ripped out the glossy spreads of their cars and persons and Scotch Taped ’em to our bedroom doors and walls — right next to our Runaways (duBeat-e-o) and Suzi Quatro (Suzi Q) […]
Joyride to Nowhere (1977)
Written in four days by co-directors Ronald C. Ross (who mostly did stuntwork, other than writing and directing 1987’s Burning Vengeance) and Mel Welles (who directed Lady Frankenstein) along with George ‘Buck’ Flower and John F. Goff (who also wrote Butterfly, Hundra and C.B. Hustlers), this is the story of two girls named Cindy (Sandy Alan, The Glove) and Leah (Leslie Ackerman). They […]
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