WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Switchblade Sisters (1975)
So easy to love. So hard to kill. Man, if there’s such a thing as a perfect movie, put Switchblade Sisters on the list. Maggie (Joanna Nail, the mother of The Visitor!) has moved to a new high school run by the Silver Daggers and their women, the Dagger Debs. Maggie gets caught up in an arrest, […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Swinging Co-eds (1972)
When you doubt what a movie is and it’s playing at a drive-in in the 70s, chances are it’s a Schoolgirl Report movie. Also known as Sex at the Olympics and Girls Who Came to Munich, this is—like those films—a stitched-together carousel of softcore vignettes set against the backdrop of Munich 1972 that has absolutely […]
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama 2026: The Shining (1980)
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre, September 19 and 20, 2025. Two big nights with four feature films each night include: What else can be said about The Shining that hasn’t been said before? How many times have I seen this film, and what can I add to the conversation? That’s […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: The Enchanted (1984)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Enchanted was on the CBS Late Movie on March 18 and July 23, 1987. The Enchanted is a Florida regional film that mainly played in the South but still found its way to the CBS Late Movie. Its filmmakers self-released it on DVD, but the first Blu-ray release is on the new Severin All […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Sweet Sugar (1972)
Sugar Bowman (Phyllis Davis, who played Susan Lake in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls) takes a deal to serve two years working on Dr. John’s (Angus Duncan) sugarcane plantation rather than go to prison for a crime she didn’t commit. When she’s not out in the fields cutting crops with a machete all day, she […]
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama 2026: The Exorcist (1973)
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre, September 19 and 20, 2025. Two big nights with four feature films each night include: What do you write about a movie that helped create modern horror? Sure, you can point to Night of the Living Dead and even Carnival of Souls as starting points, but […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Omega Cop (1990)
Week 14 (Sept. 20 – 26) – THE END! Post-Apocalyptic Cinema: Make sure to pull the ladder up on the way out Originally titled John Travis: Solar Survivor, this was written and produced by Ronald L. Marchini, executive-produced by his wife, Jo Anne Marchini and directed by Paul Kyriazi (Death Machines, Ninja Busters). I was dreamin’ when […]
You Had To Be There: How The Toronto Godspell Ignited The Comedy Revolution, Spread Love & Overalls, And Created A Community That Changed The World (In A Canadian Kind Of Way: (2026)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also one of the hosts of When It Was Cool’s exclusive Uphill Both […]
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I’m always looking for more writers to be part of the site. Sure, it doesn’t pay, but I’m willing to let you write about just about any movie that you want to, at any length and in any style or format. The site gets around 1,200 visitors a day and I share the reviews on Letterboxd, […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Swedish Wildcats (1972)
If you are going to dive headfirst into the sleazy, sun-dappled depths of Euro-exploitation, you need a maestro at the helm. Enter Joseph W. Sarno, the undisputed auteur of adult cinema who treated trashy premises like high art. With 1972’s Swedish Wildcats, Sarno takes us across the Atlantic for a film that’s part sleazy melodrama, […]
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