WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Friday Foster (1975)
Not just a blaxploitation, not just a comic strip movie, not just a Pam Grier movie, this is also her last movie for AIP that ties in race identity, being a woman and, most essentially, Pam Grier kicking ass for 90 minutes. Friday Foster comes from an American newspaper comic strip, created and written by […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965)
I hate when people make lists of the worst movies ever made, because stuff like this always ends up on it. Whether you see it as this title or as Duel of the Space Monsters, Frankenstein Meets the Space Men, Mars Attacks Puerto Rico, Mars Invades Puerto Rico or Operation San Juan, you’re going to see something […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Food of the Gods (1976)
Eww, look — that rat has a woman in its mouth, Man, what a poster. Directed and written by Bert I. Gordon, The Food of the Gods was ever so loosely based on H. G. Wells’ novel The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth. The food of the gods does indeed appear […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Flying Masters of Kung Fu (1978)
Hsiang Ying (Chia Ling) has been betrayed by her master, who tells her that he killed her father before tossing her off a cliff and when she survives that and a battle with wolves, he locks her inside a cage. She’s saved by Ku (Chiang-Lung Wen) but it turns out that the real killer is […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Final Exam (1981)
You remember that interview where Vanilla Ice tried to explain why he didn’t steal Queen/David Bowie’s “Under Pressure?” I’d like to hear whoever did the music for this movie to explain how they added a “da na na” to the theme from Halloween. Then again, there’s plenty more that this movie owes to that film. A […]
Elijah’s Secret (2016)
Back when I was a kid, I read so many Jack Chick comics. That’s because while the tracts are given away for free, the full-size comic books were always in Christian stores, and those were the only places that sold craft supplies in my small town. Chick’s Crusader comic book had six issues about Alberto Rivera, […]
The Games Children Play (1990)
Written by Ralph Griffin and Peter Lalonde, this is the kind of Satanic Panic that I love. Lalonde would go on to produce and write the Left Behind and Apocalypse: Caught in the Eye of the Storm movies. This gets the most basic thing about He-Man incorrect. He-Man said. “I have the power,” not “I am the power.” […]
20 Minutes to Go (1990)
Aurora Productions, which made this, is really The Family International, an American new religious movement founded in 1968 by David Brandt Berg. They also went under the names The Children of God, Teens for Christ, The Family of Love and The Family. It’s the cult that Rose McGowan, River, and Joaquin Phoenix were born into. […]
Among the Shadows (2019)
“A private investigator, descendant from a line of werewolves, who tries to solve the murder of her uncle and discovers a political conspiracy.” I was down with that, but then you told me Lindsay Lohan is in it? My dream has always been for Lindsay to just make giallo, as if she were Carroll Baker. […]
The Laws of Eternity (2006)
The fourth of nine anime movies produced by the Japanese religious organization Happy Science, this is based on Ryuho Okawa’s third book, The Nine Dimensions: Unveiling the Laws of Eternity. Happy Science is a Japanese religious organization founded in 1986 by Ryuho Okawa, who went from being a stock trader to the present incarnation of […]
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