VINEGAR SYNDROME BOX SET RELEASE: Bloodstained Italy
From Vinegar Syndrome: “Italian horror in the 1960s and 70s went through several popular tonal and thematic phases. From Gothic thrillers in the early to mid-1960s, psychedelia and monster mayhem in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and, of course, all manner of gialli and other assorted murder thrillers. But what of those films that […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Beneath the Planet of the Apes was on USA Up All Night on November 19, 1993 and March 22, 1996. Nothing succeeds like, well, success. After Planet of the Apes, producers considered several treatments before finally hiring Paul Dehn to write the movie, making him the primary writer for the films. They didn’t use the […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Sept 1-7 John Waters Best of the Year Week: To be fair, these movies aren’t ALL funny, but JOHN WATERS is funny. He’s become more of a writer and public commentator these days. Still, he helps keep the arthouse from taking itself too seriously with his annual top-ten lists, while celebrating the comically serious. Max […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: The Beach Girls (1982)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Beach Girls was on USA Up All Night on February 19, October 14, 1991 and July 14, 1995. Bud Townsend directed Terror at Red Wolf Inn. For this, we should not make too much light of The Beach Girls, a movie with little to no plot and frequent appearances of the boom microphone. We should […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: American Drive-In (1985)
EDITOR’S NOTE: American Drive-In was on USA Up All Night on February 23 and 24, August 31 and November 17, 1990 and May 31 and December 14, 1991. Krishna Shah made Hard Rock Zombies, which was supposed to be the movie within this movie, which is a movie all about a drive-in, in case you couldn’t figure […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Alligator II: The Mutation (1990)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Alligator II: The Mutation was on USA Up All Night on December 16, 1995, along with Jaws 3 and Orca. You can watch the host segments on the Internet Archive. More remake than sequel, Alligator II starts with rich villain Vincent Brown (Steve Railsback) dumping some of the Future Chemicals into the sewers, which goes right […]
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