This week, Bill Van Ryn, G.G. Graham and I will be taking you on a tour of Italy — comic book style — with two absolutely gorgeous movies starting at Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages.

Up first is Mario Bava’s Danger: Diabolik, which I feel is the best comic book movie ever made. You can watch it on YouTube.

If you’ve never watched our show, you’ll be excited to know that we discuss the movies, show an ad gallery for each of the two films and make a special drink for each one. Please drink responsibly.

Eva Kant (from this recipe)

• 1.5 oz. tequila
• 1 oz. amaretto
• 1 tbsp. lemon juice
• 1 tbsp. lime juice
• 1 tbsp. kosher salt
• 1 tbsp. sugar

1. Rim your glass before you mix this. It helps to use a lemon to wet the edge, then dip into the salt and sugar mix on a plate.
2. Place the drink ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into your rimmed glass.

Our second movie is Baba Yaga, a film I never thought we would show and one I couldn’t be happier about. You can watch it on YouTube.

Baba Yaga (from this recipe)

• .5 oz. vodka
• .5 oz. Chambord
• .5 oz. Midori
• .25 cup sweet and sour mix
• 1 oz. club soda
• Splash grenadine
• Splash lime juice

1. Fill a glass with ice, then pour in the vodka, Chambord, Midori and lime juice.
2. Add sweet and sour mix, then top off with club soda and add grenadine to taste.

Here’s to Saturday night!

This week, Bill Van Ryn and Bradley Steele Harding will be hosting two incredible and fantastic films on Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages.

Up first, Keep My Grave Open and you know how much we love S. F. Brownrigg on the DIA Double Feature! You can watch this on YouTube or on Tubi under its alternate title, The House Were Hell Froze Over.

Each week, we introduce the movies, show an ad gallery for each film and have a themed cocktail. Here’s the first drink, which we hope you’ll enjoy responsibly.

Open Grave

• 1.5 oz. Irish cream
• 1.5 oz. Jagermeister

1. Layer the Jager and then Irish cream in a shot glass.
2. Drink and enjoy.

Our second movie is Night Fright, which you can watch on YouTube or Tubi.

The John Agar (alcoholic Shirley Temple)

• 2 oz. vodka
• .5 oz. grenadine
• .5 oz. maraschino cherry juice
• 4 oz. lemon-lime soda
• Maraschino cherries
• Lime and lemon slices

1. Start with vodka, grenadine and maraschino cherry juice over ice.
2. Top with lemon-lime soda, then add maraschino cherries and lemon and lime slices.

See you on Saturday!

This wee, we’ll be talking about the Joan Crawford and William Castle collaboration Strait-Jacket and Mario Bava’s Hatchet For The Honeymoon! Dustin Fallon from Horror And Sons will be on with us this time, which starts on Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages.

Up first — Strait-Jacket, which you can watch on (LINK NEEDED).

Each week, we discuss the movie, show an ad gallery and make a themed drink. Here’s this week’s first recipe.

Strait-jacket

• 2 oz. Fireball
• 1 oz. Passoa
• 3 oz. orange juice

1. Build over ice in this order: Fireball, Passoa, then orange juice.

The second movie is Hatchet For The Honeymoon which you can watch on YouTube.

Tomahawk for the Honeymoon

• 1 oz. tequila
• 1 oz. triple sec
• 2 oz. cranberry juice
• 2 oz. pineapple juice

1. Shake all ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker.
2. Pour over ice and enjoy.

We can’t wait to see you Saturday.

Bill and I will rise from our graves this Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages for two vampire classics.

Up first — Michael Pataki — a DIA Double Feature favorite — and William Smith — who should be in every movie — in Grave of the Vampire. You can watch it on Tubi.

If you haven’t seen the show, every week we talk about the movies, show the print ads for it and have a drink that matches each film.

Grape of the Vampire

• 3 oz. white grape juice
• 2 oz. pineapple juice
• 1 oz. vodka
• 2 oz. club soda
• 1 twist of lemon

1. Fill a glass with ice, throwing them in like you’re James Eastman throwing Caleb Croft out a window.
2. Pour in white grape juice, then pineapple juice, then vodka and stir. Top with club soda and lemon.

Our second movie is The Blood Beast Terror which you can also watch on Tubi and YouTube.

Not So Bloody Mary

• 1 1/2 oz. vodka
• 3 oz. carrot juice
• 1/2 oz. honey
• 1/2 oz. lemon juice

1. Mix all ingredients in a shaker with ice while watching over your shoulder for human moth hybrids.
2. Pour over ice. If you’d like a hotter drink, add some hot sauce.

We can’t wait until Saturday!

Bill, Gigi Graham and I are all back this Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages. And oh man — we’re bringing the wild movies.

Up first is one of those movies they always warned you about, a video nasty that more than lives up to its name, Don’t Go in the House, which you can watch on Tubi.

Every week, we discuss the movies, show an ad gallery for each film and have a themed drink. Here’s the first one for this week:

Burned Alive

• 1 oz. vanilla vodka
• 1 oz. Fireball
• 5 oz. apple juice
• 1 dash vanilla extract
• .5 oz. lemon juice
• 1 shake cinnamon

1. Mix all of the top five ingredients together in a shaker with ice. Shake it up and pour over ice.
2. Top with cinnamon to taste.

Up next is the TV movie A Cold Night’s Death, which you can find on YouTube.

A Cold Winter’s Drink

• 4 oz. pineapple juice
• 1 oz. rum
• 1 oz. cream of coconut
• 1 oz. blue curacao

1. Shake with ice until super cold and well mixed.
2. Pour over crushed ice, or maybe even better, some snow in a glass.

See you on Saturday!

Bill and I are back this Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages. This week — you can win DVDs from my collection! Every week, we watch two movies, discuss them with you, share drink recipes, view an ad gallery and have our infamous third segment where anything can happen.

Up first is the Michae Pataki-directed Mansion of the Doomed! You can watch it on Tubi.

Check out this recipe to enjoy with the movie!

Doomed

• 1.5 oz. Midori
• .5 oz. whiskey
• .5 oz. vodka
• Club soda

1. Shake the first three ingredients with alcohol, then pour over crushed ice.
2. Top with club soda.

Our second movie is one that Becca requested, Dolls!

Here’s the drink that will make that movie much easier to swallow!

Southern Doll 

• 1.5 oz. whiskey
• Sweet tea (to taste)
• Lemon slices
• Frozen grapes

1. Slice the lemons and place in your glass, then top with ice and frozen grapes (to take the place of all the eyes that get ripped out in this one).
2. Top with sweet tea to taste.

See you at the movies.

I can’t tell you how excited that I am that Bill and I are back this Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages.

Before we get to the movies, this week you’ll have a chance to win one of these incredible fleece blankets designed by Bill and made with PINSPLOITATION. The blanket sold out in record time, but Bill’s giving away one on Saturday.

Here’s how to win: Head over to watch our show, then let us know in chat you want to be registered for the drawing. After the first movie (around 10:30pm), Bill will draw one name out of a box and that’s the winner! It’s that easy! Entries will be accepted ONLY via the chat during the live broadcast, no e-mails or DMs please! Contest open to US residents only – unless you want to pay the shipping!

Up first is Slipping Into Darkness AKA Crazed, a 1978 film that Bill described as “one of those types of movies that makes you feel like you need to bathe afterwards.” You can watch it on YouTube.

Every show, we share art for the movie, discuss it and make a drink that goes with the film. Here’s the first cocktail and please drink it responsibly.

The Paranoiac (taken from this recipe)

• 1.5 oz. Kraken (or other dark rum)
• .5 oz. Triple Sec
• 2.5 oz. carrot juice
• .5 oz. coconut milk
• Sprinkle of nutmeg

1. Shake all ingredients with ice in your shaker.
2. Pour over ice and top with nutmeg. It’s that simple.

Too complicated? Here’s an easy one:

Don’t Slip in the Darkness

• 2 oz. Kraken (or other dark rum)
• 8 oz. Dr. Pepper

1. Pour rum over ice, then add Dr. Pepper on that. It’s even simpler!

Our second movie is one I’ve wanted to show for a long time. Spider Baby! You can watch it  on Tubi and YouTube.

The Maddest Cocktail Ever Poured (taken from this recipe)

• 1.5 oz. tequila
• 4 oz. white grape juice
• 5 drops grenadine

1. Shake up tequila and juice, then pour over ice
2. Top with grenadine and pretend you have Merrye Syndrome.

See you on Saturday! I can’t wait!

Join Bill, GG and me for two wild movies, advertising for the films, mixed drinks and lots of discussion as we ring out this year and get prepped for a 2022 filled with even more wild double features. It all gets started at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook or YouTube pages.

Up first, Three on a Meathook, which you can watch on YouTube.

Seeing as how this movie was made around Louisville, Kentucky, we’re going with a regional drink for a regional film.

Kentucky Buck On a Meathook (taken from this recipe)

• Several strawberries
• 2 oz. bourbon
• .75 oz. lemon juice
• .25 oz. simple syrup
• 2 dashes Angostura bitters
• Ginger beer

1. Muddle strawberries in a shaker, then add the bourbon, juice, syrup and bitters. Shake well with ice.
2. Pour into a glass with ice. Pour ginger beer over the mix.

Up next, the Landers sisters appear in Deadly Twins, which is also available on YouTube.

Twin Sisters (taken from this recipe)

• 1 oz. light rum
• 1 oz. spiced rum
• .5 oz. Rose’s lime juice
• Cola

1. Shake rums and lime juice with ice, then pour over ice.
2. Top with cola and savor.

See you on Saturday!