BLUE UNDERGROUND 4K UHD RELEASE: Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971): Five years after Africa Blood and Guts, Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi returned with this movie, which is pretty much one of the roughest films I’ve ever made it through. This was shot primarily in Haiti, where the directors were the guests of Haitian dictator Papa Doc Duvalier, who gave them diplomatic […]
CULT EPICS 4K UHD RELEASE: Frivolous Lola (1998)
In a small town in 1950s Italy, a girl named Lola (Anna Ammirati, who director Tinto Brass met when he crashed his car into her as she was on her bicycle; she told him as a joke that if she wasn’t his next leading lady, she would sue him) rules the libido of every boy […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 23: The Legend of Gator Face (1996)
23. FOR PEAT’S SAKE: Log one that takes place in a swamp or a bog. Danny (John White, who would become the direct to video Stifler in the American Pie sequels), Phil (Dan Warry-Smith) and Angel (Charlotte Sullivan) live in a swamp where every kid talks about Gator Face. After a summer of having to […]
UNSUNG HORRORS HORROR GIVES BACK 2024: The Devil’s Exorcist (1975)
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. Today’s theme: Hail Satan Teresita (Imma de Santis) may be […]
I HOPE YOU SUFFER OCTOBER FILM CHALLENGE: Amityville Emanuelle (2023)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The I Hope You Suffer podcast said that “Since everybody is doing these movie challenges now, we made the only one worth doing.” Bring the pain. I worry about AI a lot, because you know, I work as a writer in my non-constantly watching movies and writing about them time. I’ve been in this field […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: She-Wolf of London (1946)
EDITOR’S NOTE: She-Wolf of London was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, March 19, 1966 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, December 31, 1966 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, May 17, 1969 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, January 20, 1973 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, July 26, 1975 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, June 24, 1978 at 11:30 p.m. and Saturday, October […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: She Demons (1958)
EDITOR’S NOTE: She Demons was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, January 10, 1970 at 1:00 a.m. Jerrie Turner (Irish McCalla, a model for Vargas and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle), Fred Maklin (Tod Griffin), Sammy Ching (Victor Sen Yung, Charlie Chan’s number one son) and Kris Kamana (Charles Opunui) are the only survivors of a shipwreck […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Brain That Wouldn’t Die was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, February 5, 1966 at 11:20 p.m., Saturday, June 28, 1969 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, February 27, 1971 at 1:00 a.m. I really dislike anyone who makes fun of this movie. It’s been riffed and goofed on for years, but it’s way […]
SCREAMFEST 2024: Antropophagus Legacy (2024)
Dario Germani made Anthropophagus II two years ago, a sort-of sequel to the Joe D’Amato-directed and George Eastman-starring baby munching epic. This starts almost like a giallo, as Hanna (Valentina Corti) wakes up to her husband dead. As she’s in the hospital, she learns that she’s a suspect and that she’s also pregnant. She runs […]
BEYOND FEST 2024: The Blue Diamond (2024)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also […]
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