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 […]
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