Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival: Anthropophagus II (2022)
It’s pretty amazing to me that this movie exists, seeing as how Anthropophagus came out all the way back in 1980—and was spelled Antropophagus—and already has had several spiritual and unofficial sequels, like Absurd—which is closer to Halloween than D’Amato’s first film, which was released as The Grim Reaper in the U.S.*—and the German sort of sequel Anthropophagous 2000, which was […]
Get ready for the Drive-In Super Monster Rama in September!
Coming up this September at the Riverside Drive-In is the Drive-In Super Monster Rama! plays for two awesome nights! For just $30 ($15 a night), you get eight astounding movies! Make your travel plans now! Night one: Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs!, Impulse and Shriek of the Mutilated Night two: Humanoids from the Deep, Grizzly, Piranha and Day of […]
BEARS AND BEASTS ON THE DIA DOUBLE FEATURE!
This week, we’re heading into the woods and wilds to meet a mutant bear and a SYNthesized GENetic ORgansism. Join Bill and me at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube channels. Up first…Prophecy which you can watch on YouTube and the Internet Archive. Every week, we talk about the movies, share the ad […]
Chattanooga Film Festival wrap-up
I’m sad to see another year end at the Chattanooga Film Festival. If you’d like to help the festival — and get some cool movies every month — you can keep the film fun going by joining their Patron. Starting at just $2 a month, you can support independent cinema. At $5 a month, you […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: American Meltdown (2023)
Directed and written by Andrew Adams, American Meltdown follows Olivia Walker (Jacki Von Preysing), who experiences a series of unfortunate events. Her boyfriend Rich (Christopher Mychael Watson) dumps her, her boss puts her on leave to avoid paying benefits, and her apartment is robbed, all on the same day. Her boss blames unions, her property manager, […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: House of Usher (1960)
EDITOR’S NOTE: House of Usher was on the CBS Late Movie on September 19, 1972; March 2, 1973 and July 26, 1974. Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher,” this was the first of eight Poe adaptions by Roger Corman, often working with writer Richard Matheson. Shot in fifteen days, […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Fearless Vampire Killers was on the CBS Late Movie on February 18, 1972; May 31, 1974 and June 15, 1976. Pete Stein asked for this movie and I was happy to write about it. Hope he enjoys this. Created before Polanski’s U.S. debut, Rosemary’s Baby, this film was marketed by MGM as a farce, […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Eye of the Devil (1966)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Eye of the Devil was on the CBS Late Movie on May 10 and September 8, 1972 and September 6, 1973. Based on Day of the Arrow by Philip Loraine, this was shot under the title Thirteen. It was a prophetic title, as the film had to have felt cursed. Sidney J. Furie was originally […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Made In Paris (1966)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Made In Paris was on the CBS Late Movie on April 3 and November 24, 1972; October 15, 1972; October 15, 1973 and January 19 and June 17, 1976. Everybody is in love with Maggie Scott (Ann-Margret), a charming and ambitious young woman. Ted Barclay (Chad Everett) is the son of the department store […]
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival: The Heroic Trio (1993)
An invisible woman — actually, Invisible Woman as played by Michelle Yeoh — is stealing newborn children who are destined to be world leaders for her boss, the Evil Master. He needs to be stopped but Invisible Woman owes him her life after leaving behind an abusive father. Luckily, she has two other heroes to push […]
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