This Saturday at 8 PM EST join Bill and Sam on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages for two wild movies, including a video nasty and some Paul Naschy.

You’ll be reminded that a reanimated mummy is really nothing more than a zombie, and that legendary icons Frankenstein, Dracula and The Wolf Man were never fiction, just dead and waiting to be resurrected by aliens. It all *could* happen!

Up first — Dawn of the Mummy which you can watch on Amazon Prime, Pluto TV and the Roku Channel.

Each week, we discuss the movies, show ads for the films and make a drink recipe. Here’s the first cocktail!

Pharaoh Sefirama

• 2 oz. vodka
• 1 oz. triple sec
• 1 tbsp. lemon juice
• Club soda

1. Have a fashion shoot outside of a cursed pyramid.
2. Fill a glass half-full with ice, then pour in vodka, triple sec and lemon juice. Top with club soda to taste.

Up next — Assignment: Terror which is on YouTube and Tubi.

Here’s the second recipe.

Farancksalan Cocktail

• 1 oz. Midori
• 1 oz. gin
• 1 oz. Malibu rum
• 1 oz. pineapple juice
• 1 oz. orange juice
• Maraschino cherry

1. Mix all ingredients in a shaker packed with ice.
2. Pour into a glass, then top with a Maraschino cherry.

This Saturday at 8 PM EST join Bill, Sam and Austin Trunick, writer of The Cannon Film GuideVolume I and The Cannon Film Guide Volume II, on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages.

We’re going to talk Cannon all night, show some ads and make some drinks.

Up first — Penitentiary III — which you can watch on YouTube.

Here’s the drink that goes with this film.

The Midnight Thud’s Prison Bitch (taken from this recipe)

• 1 oz. vodka
• .5 oz. triple sec
• .5 oz. amaretto
• 2 oz. cranberry juice
• 2 oz. orange juice

1. Mix all ingredients in a shaker with ice.
2. Pour over ice and watch out for PCP in your water.

Up next, Luigi Cozzi’s Hercules! You can watch this on Tubi.

Here’s the drink…

Rum Lewis Coates (taken from this recipe)

• 1 oz. light rum
• 1 oz. dark rum
• 1 oz. pineapple juice
• 1 oz. grapefruit juice
• 2 oz. orange juice
• Juice of one lemon
• Maraschino cherry
• Orange slice

1. Shake all your liquor and juices over ice.
2. Top with a maraschino cherry, a slice of orange and whisper a prayer to Mount Olympus (and Italy).

This week, Bill and Sam are joined by Jennifer Upton, an American (non-werewolf) writer/editor in London. She’s picked Blood Freak for her movie — she wrote about it on the site! — and Sam and Bill have picked Blood Beach.

It all starts at 8 PM EST this Saturday on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages.

Up first — Blood Freak which you can find on YouTube and the Internet Archive.

Every week, we talk about each movie, show an ad gallery for it and then make a cocktail that goes with the film.

Here’s the first recipe.

Hippy Freakout

• 2 oz. vodka
• 2 oz. rum
• 2 oz. triple sec
• 2 oz. orange juice
• 2 oz. pineapple juice
• 1 oz. sweet and sour mix
• Splash of lemon-lime soda

1. Mix all ingredients except sweet and sour mix and soda in a shaker with ice.
2. Pour over crushed ice, then top with sweet and sour mix and soda.

Our second movie is Blood Beach which you can watch on YouTube.

Here’s the second drink.

Blood Beach

• 1.5 oz. vodka
• .5 oz. peach schnapps
• 1 oz. orange juice
• 1 oz. pineapple juice
• 1.5 oz. cranberry juice
• 1 tbsp. grenadine

1. Mix all ingredients except grenadine in a shaker with ice.
2. Think wistfully of Marianne Hill or John Saxon as you shake it, then pour over ice and top with a bloody bit of grenadine.

See you on Saturday!

This week, we really have two movies ready to ruin your brains. Join Bill and me on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages at 8 PM this Saturday.

Up first, it’s a movie that defies categories and answers, Winterbeast! You can watch it on Shudder or Vimeo.

Every week, we talk about each movie, show an ad gallery for it and then make a cocktail that goes with the film.

Here’s the first recipe.

Winterbeast

• 2 oz. pineapple juice
• 1.5 oz. Malibu rum
• 1 oz. blue curacao
• .5 oz. Coco Real

1. Mix all ingredients in a shaker with ice.
2. Pour over crushed ice and drink fast so this movie makes sense.

Our second film is I Don’t Want to Be Born, AKA The Devil Within Her, The Monster and Sharon’s Baby. You can watch it on YouTube and Paramount Plus.

Here’s the second drink.

Hercules

• 5 oz. cola
• 1 oz. Southern Comfort
• .5 oz. peach schnapps
• .25 oz. lime juice

1. Pour Southern Comfort over ice.
2. Add the other ingredients and say a prayer for Joan Collins.

See you on Saturday!

Join Bill and me on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages at 11 PM this Saturday for an absolutely horrible movie yet one that for some reason gets stuck in your head.

Seriously, I should sell this better. The Howling II is not good but it’s great.

Watch the show and we’ll try and figure it out together. You can watch the movie on Tubi.

Every week, we watch movies together, discuss them, show the ads for the film and make a drink that goes with the movie. Here’s this week’s recipe:

Howling Werewolf

• .5 oz. vodka
• 1 oz. blue curacao
• .5 oz. creme de menthe
• Lemon-lime soda (to taste)

1. Pour vodka, blue curacao and creme de menthe in a glass filled with ice.
2. Top with soda and apologize to Joe Dante.

Saturday needs to get here fast.

Join Bill and me on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages at 11 PM this Saturday for one of the best zombie movies ever made.

It’s No Profanar el Sueño de los Muertos (Don’t Disturb the Sleep of the Dead), Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, The Living Dead, Breakfast at Manchester Morgue or Don’t Open the Window!

You can watch this on Vudu for free or on YouTube. There’s also a new blu ray frm Synapse that you can read about here!

Every week, we show the ads — this week will get into a lot of ads! — as well as discuss the movie and make a mixed drink. Here’s the recipe for this week:

Drugs, Sex, Every Sort of Filth

• 1 oz. Midori
• 1 oz. Malibu
• 3 oz. orange juice
• 1 oz. pineapple juice

1. Shake Midori, Malibu and pineapple juice in a shaker with ice.
2. Wonder why that machine is making that noise and pour the shaker into a glass, then add the orange juice.

Join Bill and me with guest host A.C. Nicholas on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages at 8 PM this Saturday for two Eurohorror films — one manner and intriguing, the other an absolute sleazefest.

The first movie is Pupi Avati’s Zeder — released in the U.S. as Revenge of the Dead — which you can find on YouTube.

Every week, we discuss the movie, take a look at a film’s ad campaign and even make a cocktail to go with it. Here’s the first one! Drink responsibly.

Revenge of the Italian Zombie

• 1 oz. Kraken
• 1 oz. Hurricane proof rum (or Bacardi 151 or a higher proof rum)
• 1 oz. apricot brandy
• 1 oz. Campari
• 2 oz. orange juice
• 2 oz. pineapple juice
• .5 oz. lemon juice
• 2 dashes Angostura Bitters

1. Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice and shake ’em up good.
2. Pour into a glass and beware the K Zones.

Up next — guess what movie I picked — Jess Franco’s roller disco slasher Bloody Moon which you can watch on Tubi.

Here’s the second drink.

Disco Buzzsaw

• 2 oz. orange juice
• 1 oz. Chambord
• 1 oz. whiskey
• .5 oz. Goldschlager
• 2 oz. Perrier (or club soda)
• .5 oz. lemon juice
• .5 oz. simple syrup

1. Add all ingredients to a shaker and pretend you’re a maniac that is strangling co-eds.
2. Put on your roller skates and enjoy.

See you Saturday!

Get ready to join Bill and me on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages at 8 PM this Saturday for two insane movies!

Up first — Cemetery of Terror which is on Tubi. If you want to read more about this movie, you can get Drive-In Asylum #19 at the etsy store.

Every week, we discuss the movie, take a look at a film’s ad campaign and even make a cocktail to go with it. Here’s the first one! Drink responsibly.

Devlon’s Axe

• 1 oz. tequila
• 1 oz. Malibu rum
• 3 oz. pineapple juice
• 3/4 oz. simple syrup
• 3/4 oz. lemon juice
• Dash of pepper
• Dash of hot sauce

1. Pour tequila, rum, pineapple juice, simple syrup and lemon juice in a shaker with ice and throttle like you’re an undead killer attacking a teenager who brought you back from the grave.
2. Pour into a glass, then if you’re brave, sprinkle some pepper and hot sauce on top.

The second movie is Blood Mania which is on YouTube.

Here’s the drink for the second film.

Bloody Poppers

• 2 oz. vodka
• 2 oz. triple sec
• 2 oz. cranberry juice
• 2 oz. orange juice
• 1 tbsp. grenadine syrup
• Sparkling water

1. Shake all ingredients other than the sparkling water in a shaker with ice.
2. Pour into a glass and float sparkling water to taste over your drink.

See you on Saturday!

This week Sean Mitus joins Bill and me to watch two folk horror movies on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages. It all starts at 8 PM this Saturday!

Up first — The Wicker Man, which you can find on the Internet Archive.

Every week on the show, we discuss the films, show an ad gallery of how they were released and have a drink with a themed cocktail. Here’s this week’s first drink:

The Landlord’s Daughter

• 2 oz. gin
• .75 oz. lemon juice
• .5 oz. Grand Marnier
• .25 oz. simple syrup
• Sparkling water
• Raspberries

1. Place gin, lemon juice, Grand Marnier and simple syrup in a shaker with ice.
2. Shake well and pour into a glass. Top with a float of sparkling water and add some raspberries to your glass.

Our second movie is The Blood On Satan’s Claw! You can watch it on Tubi.

Here’s the second drink:

Blood of Satan

• 1 oz. Jägermeister
• 1 oz. Goldschlager
• 1 oz. Irish whiskey
• 1 oz. Jack Daniels whiskey

1. Layer ingredients in this order: Jägermeister, Goldschlager, Irish whiskey and Jack Daniels, watch your hands for fur and drink.

Hey — why not have a second drink?

Devil’s Blood

• 1 oz. vodka
• 1 oz. Jägermeister
• 1 oz. Kraken rum
• 1 oz. Sour apple schnapps
• Dash of grenadine

1. Shake up everything in your shaker with ice.
2. Strain into a glass and add a cherry, if you have one, you little devil.

See you Saturday!

This week Bill and I are watching one of my favorite movies — Lucio Fulci’s House by the Cemetery — on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube page to be part of the show. It all starts at the late hour of 11 PM this Saturday!

You can watch the movie on YouTube.

Each week, we discuss the movie, show the ad campaign and have a cocktail that goes with the film.

Here’s this week’s drink:

Bob

• 1 oz. cherry brandy
• 1 oz. banana liquor (like 99 Bananas)
• 1 oz. orange juice
• 1 oz. amaretto

1. Place all ingredients in a shaker with plenty of ice, then shake until cold.
2. Watch out for the doctor in the basement as you pour into a glass and drink.

See you late Saturday!