WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962)
Based on Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, written by Thomas De Quincey — the same person who inspired Suspiria — and has Vincent Price as Gilbert De Quincey. He’s an adventurer hired to stop the sale of Chinese brides to overseas men. That makes this sound too ordinary, a film that feels like you’re on drugs, […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Coffy (1973)
Flower Child Coffin (Pam Grier) is Coffy, who saves lives as an emergency room nurse but also takes them as she gets revenge for her sister Lubelle, murdering the people who got her hooked on heroin. Once her friend Officer Carter (William Elliot) gets crippled by those very same people, she decides to up her […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Clegg (1970)
Also known as The Bullet Machine, Clegg Private Eye and Harry and the Hookers, Clegg was directed by one of my favorite British scum directors, Lindsay Shonteff, the same man who brought us Devil Doll, The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World, License to Kill, The Fast Kill, The Million Eyes of Sumuru, Night, After Night, […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Children (1980)
The best thing that I can say about this movie is that nearly every person in it is a horrible person. There are cops that don’t do their jobs well, expectant mothers that smoke and other parents that couldn’t care less if their kids have come home yet. Even the lovely people in this movie […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Chesty Anderson, USN (1976)
Chesty Anderson is a WAVE (Woman Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in the U.S. Navy and the lead character in a movie that promises that you will see bare breasts. That’s 1976, I guess, and Shari Eubank is the right actress for this. A former cheerleader and homecoming queen at Farmer City High School in […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: MSG: The Messenger (2015)
Aug 4-10 Stoner Comedy Week: I don’t gas reefer anymore, but I love it when people in movies do! Writer, co-director, co-cinematographer, co-editor, songwriter, stuntman and star Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who made his debut in this film. Ram Rahim has also released several music albums and other films, which “typically revolve around himself and […]
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