The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The Hooked Generation (1968) and The Psychedelic Priest (1971)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! The Hooked Generation (1968): The films that William Grefé made in Florida feel sweaty and messy and filled with menace, just like the Sunshine State itself, the kind of place that could give you both the Happiest Place on Earth and […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Musical Mutiny (1970)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Barry Mahon is magic. And madness, too. After volunteering for the Canadian Royal Air Force before America entered World War II, then getting shot down, imprisoned and escaping Stalag Luft III before getting captured again, then being saved by […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Day Dream (1964)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Hakujitsumu is based on a 1926 short story by Junichiro Tanizaki that plays with the nature of reality. An artist and a young woman are in a dentist’s waiting room and the man is too shy to even connect […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Getting Into Heaven (1970)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Edward L. Montoro, the man who was the heart and soul of the main era of Film Ventures International, only directed one other movie — Platinum Pussycat — and wrote two others — again, Platinum Pussycat and Day of the Animals — other […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Kiss Me Quick! (1964)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Both of the titles of this movie reference others: Kiss Me Quick! is a takeoff of Kiss Me, Stupid and the original title, Dr. Breedlove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love, is obviously taken from Kubrick. Sterilox is […]
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama 2024 Primer: Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre in Vandergrift, PA on September 27 and 28, 2024. Admission is still only $15 per person each night (children 12 and under free with adult) and overnight camping is available (breakfast included) for an additional $15 per person. You can buy tickets at the […]
CANNON MONTH 3: Hi-Riders (1978)
EDITOR’S NOTE: As the journey through Cannon continues, this week we’re exploring the films of 21st Century Film Corporation, which would be the company that Menahem Golan would take over after Cannon. Formed by Tom Ward and Art Schweitzer in 1971 (or 1976, there are some disputed expert opinions), 21st Century had a great logo and […]
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama 2024 Primer: The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre in Vandergrift, PA on September 27 and 28, 2024. Admission is still only $15 per person each night (children 12 and under free with adult) and overnight camping is available (breakfast included) for an additional $15 per person. You can buy tickets at the […]
CANNON MONTH 3: Emanuelle In Egypt (1976)
EDITOR’S NOTE: As the journey through Cannon continues, this week we’re exploring the films of 21st Century Film Corporation, which would be the company that Menahem Golan would take over after Cannon. Formed by Tom Ward and Art Schweitzer in 1971 (or 1976, there are some disputed expert opinions), 21st Century had a great logo and […]
CANNON MONTH 3: Tomcats (1976)
EDITOR’S NOTE: As the journey through Cannon continues, this week we’re exploring the films of 21st Century Film Corporation, which would be the company that Menahem Golan would take over after Cannon. Formed by Tom Ward and Art Schweitzer in 1971 (or 1976, there are some disputed expert opinions), 21st Century had a great logo and […]
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