RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Eaten Alive (1977)
Tobe Hooper followed up The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with another film that examined the horror and depravity that existed with South Texas. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre co-writer Kim Henkel was inspired by Joe Ball, the Alligator Man, who owned a live alligator attraction in the 1930s. Despite being suspected of several murders, legend had it that Ball would feed the dead women […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Mantis In Lace (1968)
Oh Harry Novak just seeing your name makes me realize that I am about to see something incredibly scum-sodden. You have such a fancy signature and make movies filled with such pulchritude. Let’s all have a moment to think of all Mr. Novak has done for us. Like this movie, which is exactly what I […]
MAKE BELIEVE 2024: Queen of the Deuce (2024)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also one of the hosts of When […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Body Fever (1969)
What if Ray Dennis Steckler made a gumshoe movie? What if he starred in it — using his real name and not Cash Flagg — as private eye Charlie Smith? And what if he were hired by Big Mack, who is played by Bernard Fein who created Hogan’s Heroes, to find a heroin-stealing cat burglar […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Beyond the Reef (1979)
Also known as Sea Killer — the name it was originally released in the U.S. — Mein Freund, der Hai (My Friend, the Shark); Peripeteies ston okeano (Adventures In the Ocean); Manidù – Uno squalo ribelle, un indigeno selvaggio, un fiore di ragazza (Oh Italy; this means Manidu – A Rebellious Shark, a Wild Native, A Flower of a Girl); Shark […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: The Baby (1973)
I love having people over to our house to watch movies. However, some folks don’t get to watch the really strange films in our collection. They have to make it through a test to see if they can hang. I’ve had the misfortune of trying to explain Beyond the Valley of the Dolls to people and get […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Love Me Deadly (1973)
Lindsay Finch (Mary Charlotte Wilcox, The Beast of the Yellow Night and Psychic Killer) loves to go to funerals, where she mourns and then kisses the dead men passionately after everyone else leaves. Throw in a theme song that sounds like it comes out of James Bond while we see flashbacks of her relationship with her dead […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Night of the Ghouls (1958)
How do you follow Plan 9 from Outer Space? You bring back Tor Johnson as Lobo and Paul Marco as Kelton the cop from Bride of the Monster, you get Criswell to do another framing story and get the character of Captain Robbins to return as well, even if Johnny Carpenter takes over the role from […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Cherry, Harry and Raquel(1969)
This is the first appearance in a Russ Meyer movie of Charles Napier. He plays Harry Thompson, a California border sheriff and marijuana smuggler who also somehow — spoiler warning — comes back from the dead to die again in Supervixens. But as for this movie, it starts with a narration that blames marijuana for so […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Mondo Topless (1966)
“Two Much For One Man…Russ Meyer’s Busty Buxotic Beauties … Titilating … Torrid … Untopable … Too Much For One Man!” After going from nudies to roughies, Russ Meyer made this mondo film that explores San Francisco as well as the women who dance there in one of the first cities that permitted them to […]
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