WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Case of the Smiling Stiffs (1973)
“The First Sex-Rated Whodunit” combines softcore sexual content — appearing as if it were originally shot hardcore with scenes later edited out — with a murder mystery, and possibly even a vampire element. This film, directed by Sean S. Cunningham and Brud Talbot, is also known as Case of the Full Moon Murders. It features […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Carnival Magic (1981)
Al Adamson should never have made a children’s film. This is the man who made Psycho a Go-Go, featuring two different softcore movies with flying hostesses (The Naughty Stewardesses and Blazing Stewardesses), the staggering Dracula vs. Frankenstein, and a Filipino horror movie that was dubbed, tinted in neon hues, and released as Horror of the Blood Monsters. And, […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Who Made the Potatoe Salad? (2006)
July 21-27 Eddie Griffin Week: This motherfucker is funny! San Diego cop Michael (Jaleel White, yes, Urkel) goes off to announce his engagement to Ashley (Jennia Fredrique) to her family. It does not go well. Father Jake (Clifton Powell) was a Black Panther who went to jail for killing a job; brother June Bug (DeRay […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Can I Do It…’Til I Need Glasses? (1977)
The sequel to If You Don’t Stop It… You’ll Go Blind!!! This makes me remember when HBO used to show burlesque, which was weird after porno chic, as it was all these old comedians telling the same jokes and girls barely getting naked, yet at the same time, you could go see full penetration adult movies. However, […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Candy Tangerine Man (1975)
Directed and produced by Matt Cimber and written by Mikel Angel under the pseudonym of George Theakos, The Candy Tangerine Man presents the dual lives of businessperson Ron Lewis (John Daniels). By day, he’s a successful executive, a loving husband and a devoted father. By night, he’s the Black Baron, riding down the Sunset Strip in […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Candy Snatchers (1973)
Possibly inspired by the kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle, The Candy Snatchers gets its name because Eddy (Vince Martorano), Jessie (Tiffany Bolling) and Alan (Brad Davis) have kidnapped a young girl named Candy (Susan Sennett) from her Catholic school. They keep her buried alive — with a pipe for air — in a field somewhere in […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Earthbound (1981)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Earthbound was on the CBS Late Movie on July 25, 1986 and April 15, 1987. Rejected as a TV pilot, Earthbound played a limited release in theaters. In fact, it would be one of the last films that Schick Sunn Classic Pictures made that played in theaters. Directed by James L. Conway, who would go […]
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