WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Bonnie’s Kids (1972)
Ellie (Tiffany Bolling, The Candy Snatchers) and Myra Thomas (Robin Mattson, Candy Stripe Nurses) leave behind their abusive stepfather with a shotgun blast and make their way to Los Angeles and the home of their Uncle Ben (Scott Brady), who involves the two of them in a moey-laundering scheme. But Ellie knows the score and […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Body Beneath (1970)
Making his way to England instead of Staten Island, Andy Milligan created a vampire movie in which Rev. Alexander Algernon Ford (Gavin Reed) has an entire family of vampires — a wife who doesn’t speak, three green-skinned vampire women and a hunchback named Spool — living in Carfax Abbey. Inbreeding is destroying this vampiric brood, […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Boardinghouse (1982)
The first horror film in history to be shot on video, Boardinghouse is… well, there really isn’t anything else like it. Somehow, this movie seems at once ten minutes and ten hours long, taking you on a journey into — man, I’ve no idea how we got here or where we’ve been, but we really went […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Team America: World Police (2004)
June 30- July 6 Puke Week!: Throwing up isn’t very funny, but making your internet friends watch a puke movie is! I always say the one line — well, many of the lines, but this one line — when Gary Johnston throws up non-stop after he hits rock bottom. Someone yells, “You threw away your […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: BMX Bandits (1983)
Pig-masked bank robbers in Australia go up against BMX experts P. J. (Angelo D’Angelo), Goose (James Lugton) and Judy (Nicole Kidman). Yes, Nicole Kidman in her second movie. Perhaps even more amazing is that this was directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith, who you may not pick to make a kid movie, but here we are. As […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Bloodtide (1982)
When you see the names Brian Trenchard-Smith and Nico Mastorakis listed as producers, you know that you’re probably getting into something good. Also known as Demon Island, this film was directed by Richard Jefferies, who is perhaps better known for the films he wrote, such as Scarecrows and Cold Creek Manor. He has directed only one other […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Abominable Dr. Phibes was on the CBS Late Movie on February 22, 1974 and December 30, 1975. Church of Satan founder Anton Szandor LaVey claimed that the main character in this Vincent Price film was based on him. Well, his name is Dr. Anton Phibes and he’s an organist, researcher, medical doctor, biblical scholar and ex-vaudevillian […]
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