Directed by Don Como (World of the Unknown, The Unknown Force), this is three episodes of a canceled TV series that had Jack Palance, Samantha Eggar, Will Geer and Roscoe Lee Brown as the hosts.

It’s your typical mid-70s paranormal BS, except then there’s this credit that says “All of the following scenes were filmed within the guarded confines of the People’s Temple in Los Angeles, The Reverend Jim Jones presiding” and you see footage of people being healed there and you realize that this was made and aired before everyone went to Guyana and well, you know what happened there.

There’s also a guy who was going to kill himself, went to a psychic and learned that if he gets stigmata, he finds oil. You can’t tell me that There Will Be Blood is more entertaining than that.

Psychic surgery. Talking to snakes and goats. Needles going through arms. Martial artists who claim that they can channel their powers into lying on beds of nails which in no way makes you good in a fight. Palance in a turtleneck. As always, Eggar provided her own wardrobe. A couple that built a pyramid over their bed to have better sex. Spitting up ectoplasm. Talking to plants. All the drugs.

People used to say that doing Ripley’s Believe It or Not was the down part of Palance’s career and he was like — imagine his voice — “I’ve done way worse, friend.”

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This Tubi exclusive, directed by Adam Meyer, who also wrote Tubi’s Scariest Monsters in America, is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever watched and I say that with sheer affection. I mean, I’ve had this same debate stoned: who would win, Bigfoot or a Yeti? They gather a bunch of people like video game creators, pro wrestlers and cryptozoologists and straight faced people share why a monster would win when placed in front of a crowd and made to battle for entertainment. Have we not watched any horror movies? They would break free, work together to kill all the humans and then fight.

I really think between all the giallo, exploitation and previously impossible to find slashers, Tubi is being programmed by maniacs. I want to meet them, get to know them and pitch more shows like this, because let me tell you, I’ll probably watch this more than once. They should have made multiple endings where different monsters win and make it watch it several times to get the answer.

Bonus points for mentioning skunk apes and for having some of the worst CGI this side of a Full Moon movie. I demand ten sequels.

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Cecilia (Aisha Dee) and Emma (Hannah Barlow, who co-directed and co-wrote this with Kane Senes) were best friends ten years ago, but life — and something horrifying that we see in a flashback, one of the absolute grossest effects I think I’ve seen in some time — had them move apart. They run into each other, Cecelia is invited on a hens’ weekend to a remote cabin and she runs into her old bully Alex (Emily De Margheriti) and yeah, this getaway is not ending well.

Cecilia has overcome her childhood bullying through self-help. She’s not a doctor, doesn’t profess to be one and does seem to genuinely help other people. She’s also certifiably deranged and even though you can explain so much away from the people she kills, she still kills people.

I’m not a fan of influencers, nor this whole new influencers in horror thing, but this movie is a candy colored slasher and Dee is really good in it. It’s nowhere near the glory slashers of our youth, but come on, did you expect a movie about a murderous slasher to approach the hallowed days of 1978-1981? Don’t. But do expect to be entertained. And don’t ever urinate on a social media influencer’s craft project. Add that to the whole don’t fuck in the woods rules.

The first film directed by Charlotte Colbert, who co-wrote the script with Kitty Percy, She Will has Alice Krige as film star Veronica Ghent, who is recovering from a double mastectomy at what she believes is an exclusive retreat with her nurse Desi Hatoum (Kota Eberhardt).

Years ago, when Veronica was just a child, she appeared in the movie that defined her life, Navajo Frontier for director Eric Hathbourne (Malcolm McDowell), who is planning on remaking that film and using another 13-year-old girl despite the innuendo that he had a relationship with Veronica all those years ago. As for any mention of her in the media, every story is about “look how old she is.”

Later the first night, a black mud pours from the bath and into Veronica, showing her memories of being assaulted by the director as well as the witches whose ashes made that substance. Years ago, at a place called Nighean’s Wall, three thousand women were burnt for the crime of being women. Or witches. Or you know, it’s kind of one and the same.

Desi lives her own nightmare, as the owner of the retreat drugs her and assaults her in the woods, but she’s saved by the darkness that is now inside her patient. In sleep, Veronica’s spirit appears to Hathbourne who refuses to be blamed for what happened. After all, he made her a star. He swings a bottle at her as she falls into ash, his lunge taking him off the balcony in what can only appear to the world at large to be a suicide.

She Will isn’t like so many movies out there today, filled with herky jerky ghost scenes, voyages home to be possessed and endings that fall apart. It’s slow in the best ways, methodical and has a definite destination. What a debut for Colbert.

I love that at one point Italian gothic horror was getting imported to America regularly. Like this movie, known as Metempsyco over there and directed by one and done Antonio Boccacci who was mostly a paperback writer.

Shot in sepia tone, it stars Annie Alberti — a one-time fumetti novel star — as Anna Darnell, who is tormented by visions of a dead countess. Her father does the only sensible thing. No, he doesn’t pay for her therapy and give her space to solve her issues. No, instead he takes her to the castle where the countess lived — and a place where at least two women have died in recent days — and lets her work it out. Well, hope you do well, Anna, and enjoy that strange mutilated hunchback doing all the tying up and killing.

This was released in the U.S. along with Night of the Vampires which was given the title Cave of the Living Dead.

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The poster to this movie is all it took to get me, but then I discovered that hardly anyone has watched this, that it was shot in Jacksonville, Florida for nearly no money and it goes all out occult weirdness in the midst of sunlight sleaze. All of this and more, please.

A psychic tells a young blonde named Yvonne (Dolores Heiser) that she needs a new life and should move to Florida, which brings her into the world of the DeLorca family. They have a curse upon them as once there was a ritual to conjure evil spirits that got interrupted, so now each male son becomes a vampire, which kills the mother upon the second birth.

The family has a plan: Madame von Kirst explains to them if they lure four girls — remember the young lady I discussed above? — to their house and do a new ritual, they can escape the pox upon their clan. There are also three other girls — Laura (Jan Sherman), Vickie (Rita Ballard) and Dana (Delores Starling) — as well as a hunchback and a wild sunlit home, which seems like not the place for vampires to live, but hey, I’m not a cursed vampiric madman, so what do I really know?

The occult influence on this film comes directly from all of Anton LaVey’s appearances in men’s magazines, focusing on his use of nude women as altars. Obviously, I am scandalized by all of this.

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Somehow, some way, Carter Stevens’ Punk Rock is on Tubi, pornography without pornography, yet still appearing with sleaze and heart and story intact. Also known as Teenage Runaways, Stevens saw the success of Saturday Night Fever, knew punk was hot and went out and shot new scenes that replaced the penetration to get an R-rated version — the one I watched — in theaters.

With a soundtrack by Elda & The Stillettos, The Fast, The Spicy Bits and The Squirrels, this proves a lie to the VCA 90s era of porn that seemed hopelessly years behind the times. At this point, adult wasn’t reflecting the world, it was somehow a few moments ahead of the rest of the country.

Jimmy Dillinger (Wade Nichols) just saved a girl named Jenny (Susaye London) from a cult that turns their girls into prostitutes. He gets set up for a murder he didn’t commit, the crooks come back and get his girl. The cops — like inspector Joe Giovanni, played by a pre-jungle bound Robert Kerman — aren’t on his side either. But hey — he’s going to come out on top. And probably come on top, too.

Beyond the joy of finding this on a Fox-owned streaming site, Punk Rock gives you plenty of footage of Max’s Kansas City, lots of great pinball machines — really, the movie is filled with them — and footage of St. Mark’s when punk really was a real thing. There’s also a great soundtrack by The Squirrels, The Fast, The Spicy Bits and Elda & The Stillettos, who actually have a major role to play in the story.

Debbie Harry was originally in the Stilettos and Stevens wanted her for the film. Stevens told Cinedelphia Film Festival’s Andy Elijah how the movie was made, “I was living at the time with Honey Stevens, a hardcore punk who dragged me to every punk event in New York. I found the bands simply by sitting in Max’s. I picked three of the most different bands I could pick. I wanted a different look from each band. The Squirrels in their platform sneakers and school jackets, and then the Spicy Bits, a hardcore rock band, and then The Fast, the most well-known of the three.”

There’s also an awesome marquee for Coma and man, that made me happy.

Yes. You can really watch this on Tubi.