WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Starcrash (1978)
After the Star Wars became an international sensation, Luigi Cozzi (the batshit insane Hercules movies with Lou Ferrigno, Contamination and more) was able to round up a decent budget to make a film called Empire of the Stars, which eventually became this film. Cozzi battled against food poisoning of the cast and crew and even a Communist worker revolt which led to the […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Night of the Zodiac (2022)
Week 11 (Aug 30 – Sept 5) – Lost in the Static: SOV Horror Directed by Women: I dunno about you, but I wanna see more ladies directing gory, fucked-up SOV horror! Obviously this isn’t everything that’s out there, it’s just the ones discussed in Rachel Herb-Neterer’s book “Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-On-Video […]
NIGHTMARE USA PODCAST episode 6: Simon King of the Witches
In this episode, Sam is positive and Adam is negative in their response to the psychodelic shenanigans of Andrew Prine in Bruce Kessler’s Simon King of the Witches. You can listen to the show anywhere you find podcasts, including Spreaker and Spotify. Email us at nightmareusapod@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @nightmareusapod Follow Adam on Letterboxd: @ashursey Follow Sam […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Something Creeping in the Dark (1971)
Qualcosa Striscia nel Buio may mean Something Crawls in the Dark, but the inexact translation of the original title is what it was played in the U.S. as. A group of travelers heads out into a foreboding evening — it’s a cold, dark night — when they realize that a washed-out bridge means they’re all finding […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Betrayal (1974)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Betrayal was on the CBS Late Movie on JAugust 28, 1979 and July 14, 1980. Helen Mercer (Amanda Blake, Miss Kitty from Gunsmoke) is a wealthy widow who had to kill a handyman who menaced her last year. Now, the rest of town calls her “Deadeye” and she doesn’t leave her home. She’s looking for a […]
GENRE BLAST X: Sunshine Girls (2026)
Directed by Madeleine Hicks, this is the story of Elaine (Clara Vance). She’s teetering on the edge of thirty, living in a world that’s suffocating under the weight of total environmental collapse. More than right now, that is. Oxygen is a luxury, and humanity is dying. The government solution is a medical procedure that repurposes […]
GENRE BLAST X: Angel Lust (2026)
Directed and written by Michael Fausti, Angel Lust plunges headfirst into a dark, romantic labyrinth where history, mortality and unyielding passion collide. The film opens in the cold shadows of 1782, where Ophelia Danube (Roe Haven) suffers execution for the ultimate crime of defying the rigid moral codes of her society. But death is far […]
GENRE BLAST X: Demonetize (2026)
Influencer culture is the new slash-and-burn territory for horror, providing many victims in movies today. It’s the perfect target—vain, desperate, and begging to be offed. Alexander Boyd Watson’s Demonetize takes that premise and runs it through a meat grinder. A washed-up paranormal investigator, Martin (Sean Carrigan), is desperate to reclaim his glory days. He figures […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: The 39 Steps (1935)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 39 Steps was on the CBS Late Movie on March 16, 1973; April 29, 1974; Based on The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, this is the story of Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), an ordinary man who is somehow caught up in the evil deeds of spies who call themselves The 39 Steps. They’re stealing […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things (1971)
Shot in Hollywood, Florida, this tale of Stanley (Wayne Crawford, under the name Scott Lawrence; he also wrote Valley Girl, Barracuda and Jake Speed) and Paul (Abe Zwick in his lone acting role) begins after they escape from Baltimore and go on the lam. Paul begins to dress in drag and act as Stanley’s Aunt Martha while falling […]
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