RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Black Shampoo (1976)
Director and writer Greydon Clark had $50,000 and the idea to take Shampoo and make a black version, subverting blacksploitation by having its hero — Jonathan (John Daniels) — be a business owner instead of the expected criminal. The director of photography had a car accident and still said he would show up. He didn’t and […]
B&S About Movies podcast episode 22: The Gong Show Movie (1980)
Everyone loved The Gong Show but nobody loved the movie. I’m here to tell you about it. You can listen to the show on Spotify. The show is also available on Apple Podcasts, I Heart Radio, Amazon Podcasts and Google Podcasts.
Tales from the Crypt S3 E1: Loved to Death (1991)
Directed by Tom Mankiewicz, who wrote Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, The Man With the Golden Gun and the first two Superman movies, and written by Joseph Minion (After Hours, Vampire’s Kiss) and John Mankiewicz, “Loved to Death” is the first episode of season three. “Dying for a date? Aching for a little prick of… (fires an arrow […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Child Bride (1938)
Directed and written by Harry Revier — who also made Lash of the Penitentes and would come back in the 50s and 60s to re-edit movie serial Buck Rodgers into Planet Outlaws and The Lost City into City of Lost Men — this original exploitation movie was the first produced by Kroger Babb, who would go on to make Mom and Dad. Star […]
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