This week, A.C. Nicholas joins Bill and Sam for two movies meant to be together.Join us at 8 PM ET on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages.

Up first is Night of the Witches which you can watch on BitChute.

Every week, we watch movies, discuss the ads and then have a drink to go with it. Here’s the first recipe.

Island of Witches

• 2 oz. Malibu
• 1 oz. amaretto
• 6 oz. orange juice
• 2 oz. pineapple juice
• 1 oz. grenadine

1. Mix everything other than the grenadine in a cocktail shaker.
2. Pour in a glass, curse someone and then top with grenadine.

Our second movie is Dr. Frankenstein On Campus which you can watch on YouTube.

Frankenstein Freshman

• 4 oz pineapple juice
• 2 oz. 99 Apples
• 2 oz. Midori

1. Shake all the ingredients in a shaker with ice.
2. Finish your essay and imbibe.

I can’t wait for Saturday!

This Saturday at 11 PM ET, join Bill, Sam and Justin Burning, author of Hand-Held Hell, is a 376-page, full-color look at 44 outrageous works of underground cinematic horror which you can get from Graveface Publishing and  Terror Vision.

We’re watching Hallucinations which you can watch on Tubi.

Every week, we discuss movies, show ads and make a drink that goes with it. Here’s this week’s cocktail.

Hallucination 

• 1 oz. vodka
• 1 oz. gin
• 1 oz rum
• 1 oz. triple sec
• Coca Cola

1. Build all ingredients over ice.
2. Top with Coke and go nuts.

See you Saturday!

This week, Bill and Sam are joined by Jennifer Upton for two animal attack movies. Join us at 8 PM ET (that’s 1 AM for Jenn in London) on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages.

The first movie is Spasms which is filled with monsters of the animal and human varieties. You can watch it on YouTube.

Every show, we watch two movies, discuss their ad campaign and have themed cocktails. Here’s the first:

Snake Eyes

• 1.5 oz. Proper 12 whiskey
• 4 oz. coconut water
• .25 oz. lime juice
• .5 oz. simple syrup
• .25 oz. 99 Bananas

1. Shake all ingredients in a shaker with ice.
2. Tattoo your balls like Oliver Reed and pour into a large glass.

Our second movie is Island Claws which you can watch on YouTube.

Here’s the drink.

Island Crab Claws

• 1 oz. vodka
• 1 oz. Malibu rum
• 1 oz. tequila
• 1 oz. grenadine
• 3 oz. orange juice
• 3 oz. pineapple juice

1. Build ingredients over ice.
2. Stir with your claw or a cocktail stirrer.

Saturday is coming soon.

This Saturday at 11 PM ET, join Bill and me on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages. We’ll be watching the 1960 Italian gothic masterwork, Mill of the Stone Women. You can watch it on YouTube or get the great Arrow Video blu ray from MVD or Diabolik DVD.

Every week, we talk movies with our awesome chat group, show the ad campaign and have a drink that goes with each movie. Here’s this week’s film. Apologies to Sean Mitus, who gave me a bottle of Cacique and it took me this long to make a drink with it.

Elfie

• 1 oz. Malibu rum
• 1 oz. Cacique
• 1 oz. tequila
• .5 oz. amaretto
• 2 oz. Coco Real
• 6 oz. coconut water
• 1.5 oz. lime juice
• Lime slices

1. Blend all ingredients except the amaretto and lime slices with ice in a blender for a few seconds.
2. Pour into a glass. top with amaretto and garnish with lime slices.

See you Saturday!

This Saturday at 8 PM EST, Unkle Spooky and Mike Justice will join Bill for two wild movies. You can join them on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages.

Up first — and this is a first! — is director Mike Justice’s The Trouble With Barry. You can tell Mike what you think of the movie live and in-person. Or at least via char. You can watch it on Tubi.

This week, I’m breaking with tradition by serving two drinks. Yes, each week we watch movies, talk about them, check out their ad campaigns and have matching cocktails.

The first is the actual cocktail that Barry enjoys throughout the movie!

Barry’s Usual

• 1.5 oz. vodka
• 6 oz. Fresca

1. Pour vodka over ice.
2. Top with Fresca and try not to kill anyone.

Now here’s the second one.

The Burned Gerbil

• 1.5 oz. vodka
• 1.5 oz. ginger ale
• Splash of orange juice
• Dust of cinnamon

1. Mix ingredients over ice.
2. Stir, then top with a little bit of spice.

The second movie is The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane which you can find on Tubi.

Here’s the cocktail.

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lemonade

• 2 oz. white rum
• 2 oz. dark rum
• 1 oz. lime juice
• 1 oz. cream of coconut
• A handful of frozen raspberries
• 6 oz. lemonade

1. Muddle raspberries, then shake with all liquids in a cocktail shaker.
2. Pour over crushed ice and drop an old lady into a trap door.

I will miss everyone Saturday but I will be back next week.

This Saturday at 11 PM EST, Bill and I will be be showing John Old Jr.’s slashtastic giallo — oh, you know, we mean Lamberto Bava — A Blade In the Dark! You can join us on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages. You can watch this movie on Tubi or order it from Vinegar Syndrome.

Each week, we watch a movie and discuss what it’s about, the ad campaign and even have a drink that ties into the feature. Here’s the cocktail for A Blade In the Dark AKA La casa con la scala nel buio (House of the Dark Stairway), La Maison de la Terreur (The House of Terror), Cuchillos en la oscuridad (Knives In the Dark) and Das Haus mit dem dunklen Keller (The House with the Dark Basement).

Switchblade In the Dark

• 2 oz tequila
• .5 oz dark creme de cacao
• .75 oz lime juice
• .25 oz simple syrup

1. Shake with ice, then strain into glass.
2. Stir with a switchblade as you hear voices that say, “You are a female! You are a female!”

See you Saturday!

This Saturday at 8 PM EST, Bill and I will be joined by Joe Zaso and Bryan Thomas Norton, the author of the upcoming book “For God’s Sake Get Out!” The Amityville Horror at the Movies. You can join us  on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages.

Up first, what else would we watch other than Amityville II: The Possession? You can find it on Tubi, Freevee and the Roku Channel for free with ads.

If you’ve never watched the show before, we discuss the movie first, talking about why we picked it, sharing facts and looking at the ad campaign. Then, we show how to make a themed cocktail and then you watch the movie on your own. We get back together as soon as it ends and talk with our chat room about what we just watched, then get ready for the second movie.

Here’s the first cocktail.

Ocean Avenue Lemonade

• 1 oz. rum
• 1 oz. Absolut Citron
• .5 oz. blue curacaco
• 6 oz. lemonade
• Dash of bitters

1. Shake all of the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Pour in a glass, take the phone off the hook and enjoy while skiing.

Our second movie is the 1982 shocker Unhinged. You can watch it on YouTube.

Here’s the second cocktail.

Un-gin-ged Fizz (from this recipe)

• 2 oz. gin
• .75 oz. simple syrup
• .5 oz. heavy cream
• .5 oz. lemon juice
• .5 oz. lime juice
• 3 dashes orange bitters
• 1 egg white
• Club soda

1. Add everything — except the club soda — to your cocktail mixer. Dry shake — with no ice — for 10 seconds. Add ice and shake again for 15 seconds.
2. Strain into a glass. Pour some club soda in your shaker and pick up any extra cream. Top your glass with that and club soda to taste.

See you on Saturday!

This Saturday at 8 PM EST, join Bill and me on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages for our first double feature of the year.

We’re giving you two blasts of Italian gothic horror weirdness starting with Atom Age Vampire! You can watch it on Tubi and YouTube.

If you’ve never watched the show before, each week we talk about the movie, show the ad campaign and then have a drink recipe that is based on the film. Then, you watch it yourself and come back for a discussion on what we’ve seen and the next movie.

Here’s the first cocktail.

Seddok

• 2 oz. orange juice
• 12 frozen raspberries
• 2 oz. Chambord
• 6 oz. champagne

1. Mix orange juice, frozen raspberries, Chambord and ice in a cocktail shaker.
2. Pour into a glass, then top with champagne.

The second movie is Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory. You can watch it on YouTube.

Howl at the Italian Moon

• 2 oz. rum
• 2 oz. pineapple juice
• 1 oz. lime juice
• 2 oz. ginger beer

1. Fill a glass with ice, then pour in rum, pineapple and lime juice.
2. Top with ginger beer and enjoy.

Get ready for Saturday!

This Saturday at 8 PM EST, join Bill and me on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages for our last double feature of the year.

Up first is Martin, which is a movie that we’ve been wanting to play on the show for some time. You can find it on YouTube. You can also download it from the Internet Archive.

Each week, we watch two movies, talk about them, look at the ads and share drink recipes. Here’s the first one:

Vampire Martin-I

• 1.5 oz. vodka
• 1 oz. Watermelon Pucker
• 4 oz. orange juice
• .5 oz. lemon juice
• .5 oz. raspberry syrup

1. Shake vodka, Pucker, orange and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Pour in a glass, then add raspberry syrup like you’re slicing a sleeping housewife’s wrist.

Our second movie is Screamers, which was also released as Something Waits in the Dark. You can watch it on Tubi.

Here’s the recipe for the second drink.

Isle of the Fishmen

• 1 oz. rum
• 1 oz. spiced rum
• 1.5 oz. amaretto
• 1 oz. blue curacao
• .5 oz. lime juice
• 6 oz. apple juice

1. Shake up all the ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker.
2. Pour in a glass and see a man get turned inside out.

See you on Saturday!

This Saturday at 11 PM EST, Bill and I will be watching Renato Polselli’s The Vampire and the Ballerina. You can join us on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages.

You can watch this movie on YouTube.

Every week, we watch movies, discuss them, look at the ads for them and have a drink that goes with the film. Here’s the cocktail recipe.

Dancing Queen (modified from this drink from Difford’s Guide)

• 2 oz. cherry brandy
• 1 oz. vodka
• .75 oz. Cointreau or triple sec
• 1 oz. pineapple juice
• .5 oz. Mandarin orange syrup (just eat the oranges and keep the syrup)

1. Shake all the ingredients like you’re on the dance floor with Hannah, Vampira and Irina von Karlstein.
2. Pour in a chilled glass and drink.

See you Saturday for one of my favorite movies.