The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The Gore Gore Girls (1972)
Herschell Gordon Lewis week (July 14 – 20) HG seemed to truly love packing theaters. He’s most famous for introducing gore to horror movies, but he’d fill any need that the audience had. He made every genre of exploitation __ – even kids movies! Gore movies would’ve happened eventually, but Herschell seemed to take joy […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Color Me Blood Red (1965)
Herschell Gordon Lewis week (July 14 – 20) HG seemed to truly love packing theaters. He’s most famous for introducing gore to horror movies, but he’d fill any need that the audience had. He made every genre of exploitation __ – even kids movies! Gore movies would’ve happened eventually, but Herschell seemed to take joy […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Ator 2: The Blade Master (1984)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ator 2: The Blade Master was on the CBS Late Movie on August 5, 1986 and April 12, 1985. Joe D’Amato wanted to make a prehistoric movie like Quest for Fire called Adamo ed Eva that read a lot like 1983’s Adam and Eve vs. The Cannibals. However, once he called in Miles O’Keefe to be […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Ator the Fighting Eagle (1982)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ator the Fighting Eagle was on the CBS Late Movie on April 12 and July 19, 1985. I am amazed that this was on national U.S. television. Let’s list the reasons why this movie made it to our site: Joe D’Amato directed it. Where do we even start with his filmography? Emanuelle and the […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Nightmare in Badham County (1976)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Nightmare In Badham County was on the CBS Late Movie on February 18 and October 18, 1983 and February 8, 1985. This was a made-for-TV movie but was released in theaters internationally with extended footage and nudity. It was so popular in China that actress Deborah Raffin became the first Western actress to make […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: The Betsy (1978)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Betsy was on the CBS Late Movie on September 15, 1982. Based on the Harold Robbins book, directed by Daniel Petrie (Bronco and Billie, Six Pack, Fort Apache the Bronx) and written by William Bast and Walter Bernstein, this is the story of Loren Hardeman Sr. (Laurence Olivier) and the car that will bring […]
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