WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Preacherman Meets Widderwoman (1973)
After the original film, Preacherman raked in a cool $5 million. Albert T. Viola brought back the character of Amos Huxley, a backwoods con man posing as a man of the cloth, to stir up more trouble. In this installment, our hero finds his match in five-time widow Alzena Suggs (Marian Brown). It’s classic grindhouse […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Pink Garter Gang (1971)
Directed by one-and-done director Jimmy Murphy, who co-wrote it with The Killers screenwriter Ray Chavez Vegas, The iInk Garter Gang is, as the poster tells us, all about Billy Boy and his five girl gang and they’re wired for action! They rob for kicks, fortune and thrills! Some of the ads also say, “These hot pants chicks […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Poor Pretty Eddie (1975)
I rarely watch a movie that gets on the very verge of upsetting me. Poor Pretty Eddie is that rare film that pushed me pretty far and made me feel somewhat upset while watching, which ended up making me keep going and enjoy the end results. It’s not an easy watch, but it’s amazing that […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Polk County Pot Plane (1977)
In August of 1975, a bizarre chapter in Polk County, Georgia history was written. A large cargo plane loaded with marijuana crash-landed, and no one could figure out how to remove it. More than four decades later, the incident remains one of the strangest and most memorable events in the county’s history. What followed that […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Point Blank (1967)
Yeah, Lee Marvin might be the coolest person to ever live. And Point Blank? This film has more swagger in its first five minutes than most modern action movies have all put together. Marvin was in London filming The Dirty Dozen, but already had his sights set on his next move: an adaptation of Donald Westlake’s […]
JUNESPLOITATION: Hot Fuzz (2007)
DAY 10: Private Eyes! Hot Fuzz isn’t just a blockbuster. It’s a masterclass in genre homage. It’s the kind of movie that feels like it was curated by a record store clerk who spent his entire teenage years alternating between Michael Bay blowouts and classic British murder mysteries. It’s loud, it’s bloody, it’s hilarious, and […]
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