WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Black Devil Doll from Hell (1984)
Chester Novell Turner made this movie and Tales from the QuadeaD Zone. It is enough. He had been writing horror stories, doing home remodeling and attending a filmmaking correspondence course. Home video cameras had democratized movie making, and you can make fun of Turner’s films, but what have you done? Well, people thought Turner died until […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Black Force (1975)
Jason (Owen Watson, a two-tour Navy SEAL who was dojo brothers with Ron Van Cleff; his wife Sydney Filson is also in this), Billy (Judie Soriano), Adam (the best-named action hero ever, Warhawk Tanzania, who you may remember from Devil’s Express) and Eric (Professor Malachi Lee, an Isshin Ryu from the dojo of Master Ed […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Black Cobra (1975)
Do you think that when Jack Palance bounded to the stage, ready to do one-arm pushups and accept his Best Supporting Oscar for City Slickers after being nominated for Sudden Far and Shane, that he had a flashback and said to himself, “I’m in the A list tonight, but man, how can it compare to being in a movie […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Black Caesar (1973)
Tommy Gibbs (Fred Williamson) was abused by a white cop named Captain Jack McKinney (Art Lund) before growing up to become the leader of Harlem’s black mafia. He ends up taking over the world for a while, but you know how gangster movies go. Larry Cohen, who directed and wrote this, said that Sammy Davis […]
JUNESPLOITATION: Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001)
June 18: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Rock and Roll! This movie is so much better than it has any right to be. The third movie in a series of air disaster movies with a Hot Topic aesthetic should not be this good. Slade Craven (John Mann, […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Black Angels (1970)
Satan’s Serpents and The Choppers are happy to coexist, but the cops start pushing racial tensions between them in the hopes that the two biker gangs will wipe one another off the face of the planet. Any wars these gangs had before this were about turf, not the color of their skin. But Lt. Harper […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: National Lampoon: Lemmings (1973)
June 16-22 SNL Week: Saturday Night Live is celebrating 50 years on the air, can NBC last for another 50 years?? The magazine National Lampoon did a stage show that came out of the radio show. Directed by Tony Hendra, Michael Keady and Sean Kelly and written by Hendra, Kelly, David Axelrod, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, […]
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