WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Abductors (1972)
There’s an edited version of this movie on YouTube that censors nearly every few words and has nearly half an hour missing. That’s how scuzzy this movie is, a film that feels like you’re in the middle of a New Jersey swamp, covered in toxic waste. It was directed and written by Don Schain, the […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Abar, the First Black Superman (1977)
Also known as SuperBlack and In Your Face, this movie features Dr. Kinkade giving a special formula to his bodyguard, John Abar, to transform him into a black superhero. It was shot in the Baldwin Hills and Watts neighborhoods of Los Angeles without any permits. When the cops showed up, the actors playing the motorcycle gang surrounded them […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: 99 Women (1969)
This movie is quite literally the Justice League — more like the Legion of Doom — of scumbag film superstars. It was written and produced by Harry Alan Towers, who transitioned from syndicating radio and TV shows to being arrested, along with his girlfriend, Mariella Novotny — who was played by Britt Eklund in Scandal […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: 976-EVIL (1988)
Spike and Hoax (Stephen Geoffreys from Fright Night) are cousins who live under the overly watchful eye of Hoax’s super religious mother, Lucy (Sandy Dennis, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, God Told Me To). They couldn’t be more different. Hoax is a nerd afraid of everyone, while Spike is a motorcycle-riding bad boy with the girl […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: 13 Frightened Girls! (1963)
I’ve been inspired by the book Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive and have decided that every Wednesday on the site will be films that played as part of the Alamo Draft House Weird Wednesday events. William Castle loved a gimmick. Here, he promised that each of the […]
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