WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Mitchell (1975)
Mitchell reveals a lot of misconceptions. First: Joe Don Baker was once presented as the kind of sex symbol who didn’t just get Linda Evans in bed, he was kind of angry about it. Second: Mitchell was not intended to be riffed on. And yet here we are, with a movie that most people know from […]
DIA WITH JENN!
This Saturday, we’re getting into Attack of the Beast Creatures and Island of Terror with Jenn Upton! Join us on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube channels at 8 PM EDT. You can watch Attack of the Beast Creatures on YouTube. Here’s the first drink! Attack of the Beast Drink 1 oz. whiskey 1 oz. Southern Comfort .5 oz. […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Mighty Peking Man (1977)
Dino De Laurentiis gave the world a $25 million remake of King Kong. A year later, Runme Shaw looked at that poster and said, “Hold my tiger bone wine.” If there is one thing Shaw Brothers knows how to do, it’s take a Western trend, give you some cinematic LSD and feed it through a […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Messiah of Evil (1973)
Once abandoned to the wilds of public domain DVD sets, Messiah of Evil was for a time the gold amongst the dross, a film of incredible power. Hidden amongst old television shows, near-unwatchable transfers of Spanish horror and video store-era throwaways, it held a haunting power. Did I see that? Is this movie real? Can […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Meatcleaver Massacre (1977)
You have to admire the balls of the makers of this movie. Actually, you can probably see them from space. They bought footage of Sir Christopher Lee from another movie and used it as the beginning and end of this movie, then said the film stars the venerable thespian. Learning that a lawsuit would be long […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 29: Diabolik Chi Sei? (2023)
April 29: Europsy — Watch a Xerox of Bond, James Bond. In the 1960s, Mario Bava gave us the candy-colored, pop-art explosion that was Danger: Diabolik. Now, in the 2020s, the Manetti Bros. (Antonio and Marco) have made three movies about the King of Terror that have him more like the comic book version — cold […]
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