RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Deranged (1974)
Man, Alan Ormsby has done so much. In addition to working with Bob Clark on Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things and Death Dream, he wrote My Bodyguard and the remake of Cat People. Plus, he was the original director of Popcorn and the man behind Kenner’s Hugo: Man of a Thousand Faces action figure. He’s the man […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
Tor Johnson is one of those actors who was a special effect without any help. Just by showing up on screen, he’s thrilling. In this one, he’s Joseph Jaworsky, a Russian scientist who runs from the Iron Curtain and finds his way to Yucca Flats, where radiation turns him into a mute beast. All he […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Wild Guitar (1962)
Nicholas Merriweather, who wrote this, is Arch Hall Sr. He wanted to make his son, Arch Hall Jr., into a star. Before that, he was a legitimate cowboy and even had a Native American name: Waa-toe-gala Oak-Shilla, which means Wild Boy. In fact, when he died, he was buried in a full Sioux ceremony led […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Shock Corridor (1963)
Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck) wants a Pulitzer so bad that he’s willing to go into a mental hospital to learn who killed someone. He’s talked Dr. Fong (Philip Ahn) into working with him to appear insane and his cover is that he’s incestually obsessed with his sister, who will be played by his exotic dancer […]
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