Bill and Sam are joined by Uncle Spooky this week for two witchy films this Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages. We’ll discuss the films, share the newspaper ads and make some drinks. All you have to do is show up ready to cast some spells. Or drink.

Up first, Mark of the Witch, a 1970 freakout made for the drive-in. You can find it on Tubi.

Here’s the drink recipe!

White Witch (Trader Vic recipe)

• 2 oz. light rum
• .5 oz. triple sec
• .5 oz. crème de cacao
• .5 oz. lime juice
• 3 oz. club soda

1. Pour everything except for the club soda in a glass filled with ice and stir.
2. Top with club soda and stay inside the pentagram.

Our second movie is the astounding Witchfinder General. You can watch it on YouTube.

One more drink!

Witchhammer (from this recipe)

• 4 oz. whiskey
• 2 oz. pomegranate juice
• 2 oz. lemon juice
• 1 tbsp. grenadine

1. Pour all ingredients over ice and stir.
2. Drink up and watch out for Witchfinder Hopkins.

See you on Saturday!

Bill and Sam are back at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages to show two insane movies, share the newspaper ads and make some drinks.

Up first — Wonder Women!

Here’s the drink recipe.

Brainsex (from Tipsy Bartender)

• 1 oz. vodka
• 1 oz. Midori
• 1 oz. peach schnapps
• 2 oz. pineapple juice
• 2 oz. orange juice
• .5 oz. grenadine

1. Put everything in a shaker with ice and make it nice and cold.
2. Pour, drink and watch out for Sid Haig.

Our second movie is a movie that found Italians invading America and creating something special. Troll 2 is finally on the program!

Here’s the drink!

Nilbog Milk

• 2 oz. gin
• .5 oz. blue curacao
• .5 oz amaretto
• 1 oz. cream of coconut
• 1 oz. pineapple juice
• .75 oz. lime juice
• .5 oz. simple syrup
• 4 drops vanilla

1. Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice.
2. Pour over ice and then tighten your belt by one loop.

See you Saturday!

This week, Bill and I are reopening the DIA balcony and showing two giallo classics by two of the best directors ever to get our 2023 season started just right. It all starts at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages.

Up first — Lucio Fulci’s Sette note in nero AKA The Psychic. You can watch it on YouTube.

If you haven’t watched the show, what we do is discuss each movie, show the ad campaign and then share a drink recipe. Here’s the cocktail for the first film:

Seven Sweet Notes In Black Cola

• 2 oz. J&B (what else?)
• 6 oz. cola
• 4 dashes, Angostura Orange bitters
• Orange wedge

1. Pour the ice in a tall glass, then top with J&B.
2. Add cola and bitters, then squeeze in your orange wedge. Have a flash back or a flash forward with your first taste.

Our second movie is Dario Argento’s 4 mosche di velluto grigio or Four Flies On Grey Velvet which you can find on YouTube.

Here’s the drink for the second movie.

Giallo Plot Twist

• 1.5 oz. J&B
• 5 oz. ginger ale
• 4 dashes, Angostura bitters
• Lime wedge

1. Pour the ice in a tall glass, then top with J&B, just like the first one, but maybe wear black gloves this time.
2. Add ginger ale and bitters, then squeeze in your lime wedge. We’re keeping the drinks simple this week and the movies complicated.

This Saturday, Bill and I will unlock the doors of the Drive-In Asylum Double Feature one more time at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages.

Get ready to learn that women are the deadliest of the species with two wild films.

Up first — Mary Mary Bloody Mary which is on Shudder and Tubi.

Each week, we show ads, discuss the movies and share a drink recipe. Here’s the cocktail for the first film:

Bloody John

• 1 oz. cherry vodka
• 1 oz. cherry schnapps
• 2 oz. whiskey
• .5 oz. lemon juice
• .5 oz. cherry juice
• 4 oz. red soda

1. Pour all ingredients over ice.
2. Stir and maybe don’t fall for women you’ve just met.

Our second movie is Marta which is also known as …After That, It Kills the Male and Devours It. We’ll share a link during the show for this film.

Marta or Pillar?

• 2 oz. blueberry vodka
• 6 oz. lemonade
• .5 oz. simple syrup
• Mint leaves
• Frozen blueberries
• Lemon slice

1. Add simple syrup, mint leaves and blueberries to a cocktail shaker and muddle.
2. Add ice, vodka and lemonade, then shake up. Add more blueberries and a lemon slice.

Shake off all that turkey! Bill, Jennifer Upton and I are opening the Drive-In Asylum double feature for business this Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages.

We’re showing two movies that were complete failures when released, so you know that we’ll have a lot to say, a lot of ads to show and a lot to drink.

Up first — The Flesh and Blood Show which you can watch on YouTube.

Here’s the first recipe.

The Blood Show

• 2 oz. tequila
• 2 oz. blood orange juice (or 1.5 oz. orange juice and .5 oz. grenadine)
• 2 oz. pomegranate juice

1. Shake it all up with ice in a cocktail shaker.
2. Pour in a glass and savor.

The second movie is Death Game which is going to blow your mind (and is on YouTube).

Get ready for the second recipe, because you won’t be ready for this movie.

Death By Sex

• .5 oz. vodka
• .5 oz. peach schnapps
• .5 oz. amaretto
• .5 oz. triple sec
• .5 oz. Southern Comfort
• .5 oz. gin
• 2 oz. orange juice
• 2 oz. cranberry juice

1. Toss all of that booze with some ice in your shaker.
2. Don’t answer any knocks at the front door, mix it up and serve.

See you on Saturday. We’ll have a blu ray of Death Game to give away and it’s $20 off this weekend at Grindhouse Releasing. Buy it — it’s going to destroy what’s left of your morals.

This week, Bill and I are getting musical n the Drive-In Asylum double feature starting this Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages.

We’re showing two movies that were complete failures when released, so you know that we’ll have a lot to say, a lot of ads to show and a lot to drink.

Up first — the equal not a sequel that is Shock Treatment which you can watch on YouTube.

Denton U.S.A.

• 1.5 oz. vodka
• 2 oz. lemonade
• .5 oz. blue curacao
• 6 oz. lemon-lime soda
• Lemon slice

1. Shake up vodka, lemonade and blue curacao.
2. Get that into a glass with ice, then top with soda and lemon slices.

The second movie is the Menahem Golan directed masterpiece The Apple which is on Tubi.

BIM Mark

• 2.5 oz. apple cider
• 2.5 oz. cranberry juice
• 2 oz. Fireball
• 1 oz. grenadine

1. Magic apple, mystery apple. Take a little ride. Let me be your guide through the apple paradise.
2. Shake it all up with ice, then pour in a glass and drink.

See you Saturday!

This week on the Drive-In Asylum double feature, we’ve got two Spanish horror films, starting this Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages.

Up first, The Night of the Sorcerers, which you can watch on Tubi.

Every show, we watch movies, discuss them, show the ad campaigns and enjoy drinks made for each movie. Here’s the first one.

The Warlock

• 2 oz. whiskey
• .5 oz. amaretto
• Slice of lemon

1. Pour over ice.
2. Add lemon slice. Pretty easy!

Our second movie is The Loreley’s Grasp which is also on Tubi.

Claw of the Loreley

• 1 oz. Kraken
• 1 oz. grapefruit juice
• 3 oz. grapefruit soda

1. Put it together over ice.
2. Another easy one!

It’s a very special Drive-In Asylum Halloween Special starting at 9 PM on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages. You can watch The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! on Tubi, Shudder and YouTube.

Just like every show, we’ll watch the movie, discuss it, talk about the ad campaign and have a drink. Here’s the recipe.

Full Mooney

• 1.5 oz. moonshine
• 2 oz. pineapple juice
• .5 oz. grenadine
• Lime juice
• Squirt soda

1. Pour all ingredients except for the soda into a shaker and go nuts.
2. Scream at everyone around you, then pour into a glass and top with soda.

See you this Halloween night!

This week on the Drive-In Asylum Late Night Movie, we’re starting on Saturday at 11 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages. Get ready — Satan’s Black Wedding is scuzzy Satanic filth and perfect for a late night movie with an entire chat room of movie lovers. You can watch it on YouTube.

Every week, we watch and discuss a movie, talk about the ad campaign and share a drink recipe. Here’s what to enjoy during this matrimonial trip down the left hand path.

Fall Not White Wedding 

• 4 oz. apple cider
• 2 oz. salted caramel whiskey
• 2 oz. ginger ale
• .5 oz. Fireball

1. Pour cider, salted caramel whiskey and fireball into a glass filled with crushed ice.
2. Top with ginger ale and say you love, well, you know who.

This week on the Drive-In Asylum double feature, we’ve got Brad Hogue and Richard Glenn Schmidt of Doomed Moviethon to discuss two TV terrors, Don’t Go To Sleep from 1982 and Bad Ronald released in 1974. Get ready to watch them both on Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages.

Up first: Don’t Go To Sleep which is on YouTube.

Every week, we watch and discuss two films, talk about their ad campaigns and share drink recipes that go with each one. Here’s the first recipe:

Little Ghost

• 2 oz. Malibu rum
• 1 oz. vanilla vodka
• 2 oz. coconut cream
• 1 oz. half and half
• 4 oz. lemon-lime soda

1. Shake up rum, vodka, cream and half and half with ice in a shaker until fully mixed.
2. Pour into a glass and top with soda.

The second movie is Bad Ronald which is available on Google Drive.

Here’s the second recipe.

Closet Case

• 1 oz. amaretto
• 1 oz. Jägermeister

1. Pour together into a shot glass.
2. Get inside your walls and get very wasted.

See you Saturday!