WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Hangup (1974)
Based on The Face of Night by Bernard Brunner, this is the last film for director Henry Hathaway, who directed True Grit, The Sons of Katie Elder and Call Northside 777. It’s a blaxploutation film that was distributed by American-International Pictures; amazingly, Hathaway had turned down Rooster Cogburn. Re-released as Super Dude, this is all about heroic black cop Ken […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Group Marriage (1972)
After pretty much creating the nurse cycle for Corman with The Student Nurses and then directing The Velvet Vampire, Stephanie Rothman and her husband Charles Swartz left New World for Larry Woolner’s new Dimension Films. It was still exploitation, and she didn’t have much creative control, but it was more money and the opportunity to own some […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Guru the Mad Monk (1970)
The Church of Mortavia needs cash, so Father Guru does what he can, which means getting dead bodies for medical students to experiment on. This may mean stabbing churchgoers in the eyeball or working with vampires and hunchbacks. And while this is supposedly set in the Middle Ages, it was actually shot at New York […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Guy from Harlem (1977)
Directed by Rene Martinez Jr. (Road of Death, The Sexiest Story Ever Told, Supersoul Brother) and written by Gardenia Martinez, this stars Loye Hawkins as cool cat Al Connors, a Mimai detective from Harlem who has been hired by the CIA to protect Mrs. Ashanti (Patricia Fulton), the wife of a leader they’re doing business with. Spies […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Grimm’s Fairy Tales for Adults (1969)
Also known as The New Adventures of Snow White, this sex farce is part of Rolf Thiele’s downward career trajectory, who had once been a mainstream director but increasingly found himself making lower-budget sex comedies. It’s all about Snow White (Marie Liljedahl, who was Eugenie in Eugenie…The Story of Her Journey into Perversion), Cinderella (Eva Rueber-Staier, who […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Great Smokey Roadblock (1977)
The only movie directed by John Leone (he also wrote the Richard Fleischer movie Tough Enough), this is also known as The Goodbye Run and The Last of the Cowboys. But if you’re expecting Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed from the title, you won’t get it. This is filmed in the dark, features moments of […]
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