The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Roseland (1971)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Fredric Hobbs made some strange movies, that’s for sure. Only three are available — this one, Godmonster of Indian Flats and Alabama’s Ghost — and none of them are alike other than the fact that all three are movies made […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The Blue Balloon (1973)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Lisbeth Olsen — not the first crossover this movie will have with The Sinful Dwarf — plays a woman whose husband (Bent Rohweder) has been drafted. Feeling lonely, she decides to hang out with a lesbian friend (Estelle Peters) […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Jack and the Beanstalk (1970)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Barry Mahon was shot down over Germany and escaped — and was recaptured — at Stalag Luft III before being freed by Patton’s 3rd Army. Once he got back to the U.S., he became the personal pilot and later […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: 101 Acts of Love (1971)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Dr. Ann Foster (Lindis Guinness, playing the film’s writer, who also was behind another adult movie made that year, The Flanders and Alcott Report on Sexual Response) is trying to get the Johnsons — Bob (John Keith) and Marie (Susan […]
CANNON MOVIE 3: The Uranium Conspiracy (1978)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Over the next several days, I’ll be covering movies either directed by Menahem Golan or produced by Golan and Globus before they bought Cannon. You know how I always say that these Eurospy movies are like the UN? How about this one, which is an Israeli/German/Italian movie co-directed by Gianfranco Baldanello (Danger!! Death […]
CANNON MONTH 3: God’s Gun (1976)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Over the next several days, I’ll be covering movies either directed by Menahem Golan or produced by Golan and Globus before they bought Cannon. I had no idea that this Italian Western was an Israeli co-production and just a few years before they’d make it to the USA, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus […]
The 2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Is Here!
Scarecrow Video isn’t just a video store. It’s a landmark for all we love about movies. Each year, they do a month-long challenge to get people to stretch out and watch some movies they’ve never seen before. You can also check out the Letterboxd list for 2023 as well as our lists for 2018, 2019, […]
Unsung Horrors Horror Gives Back 2024!
Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which is working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes. To be part of this, just donate […]
CANNON MONTH 3: Kid Vengeance (1977)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Over the next several days, I’ll be covering movies either directed by Menahem Golan or produced by Golan and Globus before they bought Cannon. Golan and Globus also produced a Western, God’s Gun, starring Leif Garrett and Lee Van Cleef in which Garrett was mentored by Cleef. The producers paid Garrett to stay in […]
CANNON MOVIE 3: Eagles Attack at Dawn (1980)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Over the next several days, I’ll be covering movies either directed by Menahem Golan or produced by Golan and Globus before they bought Cannon. Directed by Menahem Golan, who wrote the script with Joseph and Yosef Gross (The Magician) with Yorum Globus producing, Ha-Pritza Hagdola is the story of Israel at war with […]
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