WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Rolling Thunder (1977)
Directed by John Flynn from a screenplay by Paul Schrader and Heywood Gould, based on a story by Schrader, Rolling Thunder is the story of a man who should by all rights be dead. He might be, when you get down to it. U.S. Air Force Major Charles Rane (William Devane) has spent seven years as […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Riot On Sunset Strip (1967)
Filmed and released within four months of the late-1966 Sunset Strip curfew riots, this American-International Pictures film was directed by Arthur Dreifuss and written by Orville H. Hampton. It even has its own song, “Riot on Sunset Strip”, written by Tony Valentino and John Fleck of the Standells. It has some of the same cast […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Wired (1989)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Wired was on USA Up All Night on March 9, 1991. Judith Belushi, the widow of comedian John, and his manager Bernie Brillstein asked Robert Woodward — the writer of All the President’s Men and the man who joined Carl Bernstein to break the story of Watergate — to write a book about Belushi to […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Ricco the Mean Machine (1973)
I get it. This movie isn’t a giallo. But what is it, really? It was sold under so many titles, from the more horror-centric Cauldron of Death (complete with a completely insane poster) to the more crime-oriented Gangland, the great Italian title Un Tipo Con una Faccia Strana ti Cerca per Ucciderti (A Guy With a Strange Face Is […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Revenge of the Cheerleaders (1976)
After The Cheerleaders and The Swinging Cheerleaders, where else was there to go? This feels like porn without the penetration and by that, I mean it feels like amateur porn and somehow, David Hasselhoff is in it as a character named Boner. There’s a moment where the cafeteria spaghetti is dosed with LSD and the entire school freaks […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: The Foreign Exchange Student (2018)
Week 3 (July 5 – 11) – Maverick Entertainment Group One of the most overlooked and consistent low-budget film companies of the 21st century, they’ve been full steam ahead in the streaming era while other indies have cratered. From the Maverick Entertainment Group website: Founded in 1997, Maverick continues to be a leading distributor and producer of […]
NIGHTMARE USA PODCAST episode 2: The Crazies
In our second episode, Sam wanted to discuss a film literally near and dear to him–George Romero’s The Crazies. Do we talk about Creepshow 2 more than the actual film we are covering? Maybe. Listen to the show on Spreaker. Email us at nightmareusapod@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @nightmareusapod Follow Adam on Letterboxd: @ashursey Follow Sam on Letterboxd: @bandsaboutmovie Visit Sam’s […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Revenge Is My Destiny (1971)
When you think of the post-Vietnam psyche in 1970s cinema, you usually picture the polished desperation of Taxi Driver or the raw, vengeful fury of Rolling Thunder. But if you dig into the humid, low-budget underbelly of South Florida, you find this movie, which is a weirder, rougher beast. This isn’t a high-gloss production; it’s […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Dangerous Curves (1988)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dangerous Curves was on USA Up All Night on May 17 and 18, 1991; January 24 and August 22, 1992 and March 26 and April 17, 1993. Chuck (Tate Donovan) is the quintessential uptight college student who lands a golden opportunity: deliver a pristine Porsche to a businessman, Louis Faciano’s (Robert Stack) daughter in Lake […]
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