EUREKA BOX SET RELEASE: Horrible History: Four Historical Epics By Chang Cheh: Marco Polo (1972)
This is also known as Four Assassins, as the story is about a failed assassination attempt on the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, who sends Marco Polo (Richard Harrison) to kill them! What wild revisionist history! Directed by Chang Cheh, this has Li Xiong-Feng (Sheng Fu), Zhou Xing-Zheng (Kuan-Chun Chi), Huang Zong-Han (Yen-Tsan Tang) and Zu Jianmin […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Abductors (1972)
There’s an edited version of this movie on YouTube that censors nearly every few words and has nearly half an hour missing. That’s how scuzzy this movie is, a film that feels like you’re in the middle of a New Jersey swamp, covered in toxic waste. It was directed and written by Don Schain, the […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Abar, the First Black Superman (1977)
Also known as SuperBlack and In Your Face, this movie features Dr. Kinkade giving a special formula to his bodyguard, John Abar, to transform him into a black superhero. It was shot in the Baldwin Hills and Watts neighborhoods of Los Angeles without any permits. When the cops showed up, the actors playing the motorcycle gang surrounded them […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: 99 Women (1969)
This movie is quite literally the Justice League — more like the Legion of Doom — of scumbag film superstars. It was written and produced by Harry Alan Towers, who transitioned from syndicating radio and TV shows to being arrested, along with his girlfriend, Mariella Novotny — who was played by Britt Eklund in Scandal […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: 976-EVIL (1988)
Spike and Hoax (Stephen Geoffreys from Fright Night) are cousins who live under the overly watchful eye of Hoax’s super religious mother, Lucy (Sandy Dennis, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, God Told Me To). They couldn’t be more different. Hoax is a nerd afraid of everyone, while Spike is a motorcycle-riding bad boy with the girl […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: 13 Frightened Girls! (1963)
I’ve been inspired by the book Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive and have decided that every Wednesday on the site will be films that played as part of the Alamo Draft House Weird Wednesday events. William Castle loved a gimmick. Here, he promised that each of the […]
Up Your Alley (1989)
I have no one to blame but myself. Why would I think a romantic comedy with Murray Langston — The Unknown Comic — as an unhoused man falling for an undercover reporter played by Linda Blair be any good? It gets even worse. I’ve been looking for this movie for about six years. Yes, I […]
Terror In the Swamp (1985)
When a scientific experiment to create an oversized nutria goes awry, a mutant creature is born. What’s a nutria? According to Wikipedia, it’s “a herbivorous, semiaquatic rodent from South America. The nutria lives in burrows alongside stretches of water and feeds on the stems of river plants. Originally native to subtropical and temperate South America, […]
Murder, She Wrote S1 E13: My Johnny Lies Over the Ocean (1985)
When Jessica’s recently widowed niece takes a cruise to get away from it all, a would-be murderer follows her. Season 1, Episode 13: My Johnny Lies Over the Ocean (February 10, 1985) Tonight on Murder, She Wrote… Jessica’s niece Pamela has just gotten out of a mental hospital after her husband, Johnny, killed himself. Maybe a […]
Bigfoot Exorcist (2024)
Donald Farmer is still out there, still making movies, and when you call one of those efforts Bigfoot Exorcist, you know I’m going to watch. Co-directing and writing this with Newt Wallen, Farmer gives us the adventures of Claude (Claude D. Miles), who is bitten by a Bigfoot after it is incarnated by an occult […]
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