WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Ginger (1971)
In the book that inspired these Weird Wednesday posts, Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive, Lars Nilsen writes, “This was promoted as ‘the female James Bond.” There’s some truth to that. Both have two legs and carry a gun. But if I had to choose between a James […]
Scumtastic delights at the DIA DF!
This week, Bill and I are DTF — Down To (watch) Films — at 8 PM EDT this Saturday on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube channels. We’ll be joined by the man who has tried to end our lives numerous times. A.C. Nicholas. Want to know what we’ve shown before? Check out this list. Have a […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Get Mean (1975)
Tony Anthony played The Stranger in four films — Stranger in Town, The Stranger Returns, The Silent Stranger and this film — plus he’s also in the Zatoichi by way of Italy film Blindman (Ringo Starr is in it!) and wrote, produced and starred in Comin’ At Ya! and Treasure of the Four Crowns, movies that’d start […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: ‘Gator Bait (1973)
I’m trying not to make this a thousand words about how gorgeous Claudia Jennings was. Born Mary Eileen “Miomi” Chesterton in Milwaukee — eventually moving to Evanston, Illinois, where her father was the advertising director for Skilsaw — she was a receptionist at Playboy before appearing in a centerfold (November 1969) and becoming the Playmate of […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Garbage Pail Kids (1987)
The Garbage Pail Kids were created by Art Spiegelman and released by Topps in 1985. Yes, the same cartoonist who made Maus. He and Mark Newgarden worked together as the editors and art directors of the project, with Len Brown — the same person who Wally Wood named T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agent Dynamo after and one of the […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Frightmare (1983) and also Tromatic Special Edition Blu-ray release
Also known as The Horror Star and Body Snatchers, this is the tale of Conrad Razkoff (Ferdy Mayne), a horror film star who fakes his death or maybe not, but definitely exists beyond life and death as he wipes out a drama class. Before that, Ragzoff is in a dentures commercial, and the director argues with […]
Sisters (2006)
Directed and co-written by Douglas Buck, this remake of Sisters starts with developmental psychologist Dr. Philip Lacan (Stephen Rea) performing magic at a children’s party being thrown at his work, the Zurvan Institute. His ex-wife — and former patient — Angelique (Lou Doillon) — is his assistant, but the party gets weird when Grace Collier (Chloë […]
Seance (2021)
If you have a child, don’t send them off to a school. Horror movies have shown me this. The Edelvine Academy for Girls is where this takes place, and, as you’d figure, there’s a clique of mean girls led by Alice (Inanna Sarkis) that includes Yvonne (Stephanie Sy), Rosalind (Djouliet Amara), Bethany (Madisen Beaty), and […]
Cinematic Void January Giallo 2026: Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Cinematic Void will be playing this tonight at 7:00 p.m. at the American Cinematheque Los Feliz 3 in Los Angeles (tickets here). For more information, visit Cinematic Void. Paolo Cavara and Gualtiero Jacopetti (who took all the credit) directed the first shockumentary, Mondo Cane. Following that, they worked on Women of the World before Jacopetti […]
Murder, She Wrote S3 E5: Corned Beef and Carnage (1985)
Jessica gets involved when her niece, Victoria, is believed to be connected to the murder of her lecherous boss. Season 3, Episode 5: Corned Beef and Carnage (November 2, 1985) Jessica’s planned get-together with her niece Victoria (Genie Francis, last seen in season 1’s “Birds of a Feather“) and her husband Howard goes bad when […]
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