The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The Love Cult (1966)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Barry Mahon used the name T.A. Dee to direct this, which is kind of a bummer, because I’d put this on the good side of the Mahon film column. It was written by Forest Russell (using the name Russell […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Crazy World…Crazy People! (1966)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Crazy World…Crazy People was directed by Renato Polselli, who co-wrote the film with Giuseppe Pellegrini, who wrote and did second unit work on several of Polselli’s early movies. A group of young musicians work with Maurizio, an older vaudeville […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: 1,000 Shapes of a Female (1963)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Barry Mahon must have been looking for any story he could shape into a narrative to get nude women into a story by 1963. He made so many movies like this, but this installment has some charm, as some […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The Deadly Organ (1967)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Emilio Vieyra also made The Curious Dr. Humpp but he may have created something even stranger here. There’s a maniac loose, wearing a mask and wig, prowling the beaches of Argentina where he uses his haunting organ and rock and […]
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama 2024 Primer: Opera (1987)
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: Ebony, Ivory & Jade (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 […]
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama 2024 Primer: The Beyond (1981)
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 […]
Guesting on Unsung Horrors to discuss Appointment With Fear
I was so excited to be a guest with Erica and Lance on Unsung Horrors, which is one of my favorite podcasts. We tried to explain 1985’s Alan Smithee film Appointment With Fear. You can listen to the episode anywhere you get podcasts or use the YouTube link below. Here’s their Linktree. Here’s the drink I made […]
CANNON MONTH 3: Dolemite (1975)
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 […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2024: The Draft! (2023)
Directed by Yusron Fuadi, this Indonesian horror-comedy is very Cabin In the Woods as it begins. Five archetypes — the jock, the nerd, the rich person, the pretty one and the popular kid — all head off to a cabin where they’re warned away but stay anyways. We’ve seen it all before — from 1978-1981 we […]
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