Announcing a special Drive-In Asylum online event this Sunday, August 30 on the Groovy Doom Facebook page!
We’re having a matinee watch party at 4pm of the 1972 cannibalism family jam Terror House, featuring our special guest for the show Linda Gillen! Linda stars in the film as our final girl Regina, and she’ll be live on cam with us both before and after the movie. So come hang out in the chat, ask Linda some questions, and enjoy this unique precursor to a flick that came a few years later about a certain powertool massacre in Texas!
As a reminder, you can either choose to watch the film with your own copy or find it on YouTube. Here’s a link!
Here’s a drink recipe that we’ll be making on the show!
You may have had to cancel your vacation this year, but next Saturday at 8 PM on Groovy Doom‘s Facebook page, we’ll take you to the ocean with two brutal assaults on humanity. Up first, 1978’s Slithis!
We don’t believe you have to drink during our show, but we do love sharing our recipes with you.
Nuclear Kool-Aid (from the book 11,000 Drinks by Paul Knorr)
1 1/2 oz. Southern Comfort
3/4 oz. amaretto
1 oz. lemon-lime soda
1 oz. cranberry juice cocktail
Put it all in a shaker with ice. Do your thing and shake it.
Strain over ice and enjoy.
Pretty simple, right? Well, get ready because we have another film and another drink to get you through it! Humanoids from the Deep!
Monster on the Beach (from the book 11,000 Drinks by Paul Knorr)
1 1/2 oz. tequila
2 oz. cranberry juice cocktail
Splash of lime
Splash of grenadine
Shake it up with ice.
Pour and enjoy!
We can’t wait to see you next week! Here are the links so you can watch the movies along with us!
Next Saturday at 8 PM on the Groovy Doom Facebook, we’re watching two examples of the venerable Amicus anthology films!
Up first is the movie that promises — “Come to the asylum…to get killed!” That’s right, it’s the 1972 portmanteau Asylum!
As you may know by now, there’s a drink for every movie. Get ready to layer up the flavors in tribute to the multicolored suit made for Peter Cushing in this film’s strangest segment, “The Weird Tailor” with this drink recipe.
A Special Suit for Mr. Smith (based on this recipe)
1 oz. grenadine
1/2 oz. peach schnapps
1 oz. coconut vodka
1/2 oz. blue curaçao
1 1/2 oz. pineapple juice
Pour the grenadine into the bottom of your glass, then slowly spoon in ice cubes to create the bottom layer.
In your shaker, combine some ice, peach schnapps and pineapple juice. Shake well.
Slowly pour this over your grenadine to create the next layer.
Clean shaker. Now, combine ice, coconut vodka and blue curaçao. Shake it up and then make the final layer of this rainbow-hued drink and don’t let any mannequins drink it.
This Saturday, August 8 at 8 PM — yes, 8/8/2020 at 8 PM, which feels like some kind of occult ritual is about to happen — we’ll be conjuring up two visions of the sasquatch, the yeti, the skunk ape…the Bigfoot!
Up first, 1974’s Shriek of the Mutilated!
Here’s a drink just perfect for draining while you watch people get, well, mutilated!
This weekend, we’re going back to the 80’s for two slashers. We have the links and recipes below so you can join us on Facebook Live Saturday at 8 PM East Coast time.
Up first is 1986’s Slaughter High, a movie that originally was called April Fool’s Day. It’s a revenge slasher with Caroline Munro and has some really inventive and fun kills. Here’s a drink that goes well with this movie (but you don’t need to drink to enjoy the time we have).
Killer Kool-Aid
1 oz. vodka
1/2 oz. amaretto
1/2 oz. Midori or melon liquer
Craberry juice, to taste
Club soda, to taste
Pour liquor ingredients into a glass filled with ice. Stir.
Add cranberry to taste and stir again.
Top with club soda and you’re done.
1981 slasher favorite Don’t Go In the Woods…Alone is our second movie and I can’t wait to watch it with everyone. I searched for a sweet drink that would go well with the bonkers nature of this one.
Forest Nymph
1 1/2 oz. gin
1/2 oz. Blue Curacao
2 oz. pineapple juice
2 oz. mango juice
Pour all ingredients together over ice and stir. Pretty easy, really
That’s right, in 1979, we found out that “every year young people disappear.” This PG-rated movie — yes, it still surprises us — is a favorite of Becca, who is actually coming on the show this week. Here’s a drink to enjoy during it.
Slausen Family Lemonade
3 oz. coconut rum
1 can coconut water (12 ounces)
2 lemons
Dash of simple syrup
Ice
This one is super simple. Make lemonade by juicing the lemons (if you’re in a pinch, you can just use pre-made lemonade). Simple syrup makes a sweeter taste than just plain sugar.
This recipe is coconut-rich. So if you want less of a good thing, use water instead of coconut water. Me, I added a dash of Coco Real to make it even more coconutty. Is that a word?
If you want to get really wild, use shaved or crushed ice. The colder this one is, the better. Also, you don’t ever need to drink during the movies, so you can make this without the rum.
To follow this strange movie, let’s turn to Herschell Gordon Lewis! Color Me Blood Red!
You’re going to need something, well, red to drink during this. We’ve got you covered.
Bloody Adam (based on this recipe, fixed as there were some strange measurements)
1 oz. vodka
1 oz. gin
1/2 oz. cherry vodka
3 oz. club soda
Splash of grenadine
Maraschino cherries (to taste)
Ice
Fill your glass with ice until about half full.
Pour in vodkas and gin, then top with club soda.
Slowly add grenadine and cherries, as well as cherry juice to taste (and for how much “blood” you want in your cocktail).
Don’t forget — if you want to attend, Saturday night at the Riverside Drive-In in Vandergrift, PA will be a showing of The Carand Christine! We’ll be there. Will you?
This Saturday, July 18, at 8 PM east coast time, we’ll be watching two Linda Blair movies on Tubi!
Up first is Savage Streets, a movie that proves that you do not ever mess with Ms. Blair. Oh man, this movie. It’s gloriously scummy and I can’t wait to watch it with all of you! You can watch it on Tubi.
Strawberry slices (I’d use frozen ones here as they’ll work just like ice)
Muddle the orange and lime slices with your syrup.
Add ice, the muddled mix and strawberry slices together in a glass.
Fill with coconut rum and enjoy.
Hell Night is next! You can also find this on Tubi. This isn’t just a double Linda Blair feature, it’s a double Tom DeSimone one if you want to get fancy. It’s the last Compass International Picture, too! To enjoy the exploits of Alpha Sigma Rho, I’ve found a fun and fruity drink.
This week, we have two more movies that are nearly impossible to eat during. Yes, if you have helminthophobia, scoleciphobia or vermiphobia, this week’s show is not for you!
Up first is Juan Piquer Simón’s 1988 infested opus, Slugs. Black slugs spawned from the disposal of toxic waste have infiltrated the water supply of a small town, but no one wants to listen to scientists. Oh man — the director of Pieces making a bug movie? You know it.
Here’s something to drink during it.
Naked and Crazy Frozen Slugs (based on this recipe)
2 oz. vodka
3 oz. pineapple juice
1/2 oz. blue curacao
3 oz. seltzer
Gummy worm ice cubes
You can make the ice cubes as simple or complicated as you want. If you want some more blue or green color, simply pour Gatorade or your favorite fruit-flavored drink into an ice cube tray. Then, drop in a few worms per cube. Freeze in advance.
In your cocktail shaker, toss in vodka and pineapple juice with some ice. Shake until chilled.
Place wormy ice cubes in the glass of your choice, then top with your mix. Then, top with seltzer (or your favorite sparkling water) and blue curacao.
NOTE: For the non-alcohol lovers out there, you can use Torani brand blue curacao-flavored syrup here and skip the booze.
If you have any appetite left, you won’t for long. Up next is the 1976 crawler Squirm. We’re going to make a special drink to go with it, too.
Pour tequila and lemon juice together and swirl around in a glass.
Rim a glass with salt, then pour both mixes together. Enjoy, but watch out for worms.
BONUS: If you’re not into alcohol — or just want to celebrate one of the weirder scenes in this movie — here’s how to make an egg cream, which features into the plot.
New York Style Egg Cream (taken from this Food Network recipe)
3 tbsp. chocolate syrup
1/4 cup milk or half and half
Club soda (to taste)
Pour chocolate syrup and your dairy of choice into a glass.
While beating it hard with a fork — watch your mind, dirtball — slowly add club soda until the glass is nearly full.
BONUS: Ultra special secret recipe for those who read all the way!
This one is really simple. Get a small plastic storage container, fill it with some gummy worms and cover them with some vodka. Put them in the refrigerator and stir every once in a while. Within two days, the booze should be completely evaporated. Beware — these are strong.
This Friday, we’re meeting at the Groovy Doom Facebook page at 8 PM for another double feature that will need some strong drinks to get you through. Just like last week, fair warning — both of these films are PACKED with gore. If necrophilia and babysitters getting burned in ovens aren’t your thing, stay away (but please come watch with us!).
Up first is the 1979 Joe D’Amato chunkblower known as Buio Omega. For this, we’ve decided to start simple, because the second cocktail is going to burn out all your brainstems. Well, even my simple is complicated, so here are two recipes:
Dark and Stormy (simple version)
2 oz. dark rum (Goslings Black Seal is traditional, but I use Kraken)
3 oz. ginger beer
1/2 oz. lime juice
Fill a highball (or Big Gulp) glass with ice. Add rum.
Pour in ginger beer and lime. Stir, garnish with a lime wedge and drink up.
Beyond the Darkness and Stormy (complicated version, based on this recipe)
2 oz. dark rum
3 oz. ginger beer (go for a lower sugar and spicier brand)
1 oz. spiced simple syrup (read on…)
Lime for garnish
Making this recipe means making your simple syrup a few days in advance. To do that, use this recipe:
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups water
6 sticks cinnamon (making sure to grate a quarter stick into the mix)
30 whole cloves
10 allspice berries (or just double the ground allspice below)
1/4 tsp ground all spice
1 vanilla bean cut in half and seeds scraped out
1/2 tsp fresh grated nutmeg
1/4 cup fresh ginger sliced (you can always use a dash of dry ginger spice, but I have some rad frozen ginger cubes I’ve been dying to use)
3 oz lime juice
Making simple syrup is, well, simple. Throw everything in a pot and simmer it over medium — not too hot — heat. Once it gets warm, turn it on low and stir it until it thickens on your spoon. Let it cool.
Then, strain out the spices and store it in a container in the fridge.
Here’s how to make this magic work:
Fill a highball (or Big Gulp) glass with ice. Add the ginger beer and then the simple syrup. You’re going to be amazed, because the syrup will sink to the bottom.
Hold a spoon upside down at the top of the glass at the top of the ginger beer later. Pour the rum over the spoon like you’re an absinthe fiend. Prepare yourself to shit your pants at how cool this is. I’m not going to spoil it.
Are you ready to go on a journey? Absurd is one of my favorite movies ever — I know I say that all the time — so this axe murder movie demands, well, a drink that lives up to the ideals of the film itself.
A splash of 7-Up or Sprite or the generic brand of your fancy
1/2 oz. grenadine
As much pineapple juice as you want
Throw it in a glass with lots of ice. Get a straw and chop your head off.
I can’t wait to go buy little bottles of everything for this. Seriously, this is going to be an experiment in just how much we can all safely enjoy films and drinking at the same time. That said, you don’t need to drink to enjoy movies. Sobriety is cool, too.
This Friday — yes, Friday! — travel to the Groovy Doom Facebook page at 8 PM for another double feature evening! We’re about to travel to 1977, which I always refer to as the end of the world, as pre-millennial tension gives way to serial killing and mayhem.
Up first…the one and done director/writer/producer/editor/stuntman and probaly the caterer too Dave Adams created a movie that posits that Berkowitz wasn’t the only little brat driven to ritualistic murder.
1 1/2 ounces light rum (Bacardi Silver is a decent one)
1/2 ounce apricot brandy (Jacquin’s is a good brand)
1/4 ounce lemon juice
2 teaspoons grenadine
1 teaspoon sugar
Fill your shaker with ice until the dog next door tells you to stop, but probably around half-full. Pour all the ingredients in and mix well.
Strain into the glass of your choice. Some say a cocktail glass but I’m probably going to use my Profundo Russo mug.
Our second film is made on a $3,000 budget 1977 exploitation film that has plenty of credits, but most of them belonging to one man: Roger Watkins, who also made the porn films Corruption and Her Name Was Lisa. It was shot on a camera given to the director by Otto Preminger.
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