WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Fearless Fighters (1971)
Also known as Ninja Killers or A Real Man, this started as Tou tiao hao han. Directed by Min-Hsiung Wu and written by Yang Ho, it was remixed in the U.S. by William C.F. Lo and Richard S. Brummer, who edited New Year’s Evil, Schizoid, Godmonster of Indian Flats, and Alabama’s Ghost, and did sound editing and effects for […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Fanny Hill (1968)
Russ Meyer made Fanny Hill in 1964, the Oliver Reed version I watched numerous times on Cinemax was in 1983, and Tinto Brass made Paprika in 1991. But this is the Swedish version, and the American print ads didn’t just say “from the makers of”; they said “from the country that gave you I, A Woman, Inga, I Am Curious […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Fangs (1974)
Les Tremayne, who was one of the most popular and well-known voices of the Golden Age of Radio, working on shows like The Jackie Gleason/Les Tremayne Show, Ford Theatre, Inner Sanctum, The Whistler and more. He even had a breakfast show with his second wife. As entertainment moved into television, he was all over the dial, […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Evils of the Night (1985)
What happens when you mix a teen sex comedy with a gore film? It’s kind of like chocolate and peanut butter, one would think, but the results don’t always taste as good. Witness 1985’s Evils of the Night. Three vampire aliens, Dr. Zarma (Julie Numar, who of course is the Catwoman, but is also a writer, […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Evel Knievel (1971)
Robert Craig Knievel was the hero of my childhood. After all, who else was brave, insane or dumb enough to attempt more than 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps in his life, a life that should have ended way shorter than the 69 hellacious years that he lived on this planet with? How does one become a […]
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