USA UP ALL NIGHT: Vampires On Bikini Beach (1988)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Vampires On Bikini Beach was on USA Up All Night twelve times: August 11 and 12 and December 22, 1989; June 9, 1990; March 22, April 6, July 27, August 7 and 23, 1991; March 13 and October 24, 1992; March 20 and July 17, 1993. A couple of teenagers stumble upon a copy of […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Holla If I Kill You (2003)
Week 5 (July 19 – 25) – Sub Rosa Studio Ron Bonk’s SRS Cinema has been providing the underground with TOP QUALITY GRIME since the 90s. Not only does he release a deluge of Sharksploitation, Amityville ripoffs, and Cocaine-addicted critter flicks, he also distributes auteurist masterpieces like Tim Ritter’s Truth or Dare? – A Critical Madness, Hugh […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: The Stoned Age (1994)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Stoned Age was on USA Up All Night on May 2 and December 27, 1997. It’s 1980 in Torrance, California, and for Joe Connolly (Michael Kopelow) and Michael Hubbs (Bradford Tatum), the mission is simple: find beer, find a party and find girls. The story kicks off when an aggressive ex-convict, known only as Crump’s […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Hallucinations (1986)
Week 5 (July 19 – 25) – Sub Rosa Studio Ron Bonk’s SRS Cinema has been providing the underground with TOP QUALITY GRIME since the 90s. Not only does he release a deluge of Sharksploitation, Amityville ripoffs, and Cocaine-addicted critter flicks, he also distributes auteurist masterpieces like Tim Ritter’s Truth or Dare? – A Critical Madness, Hugh […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Somewhere In Time (1980)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Somewhere In Time was on USA Up All Night on August 12, 1994. Sometimes, a film is rejected by the critics upon arrival, only to be lovingly rescued by audiences over the decades. Somewhere in Time is the gold standard of this cult classic trajectory, a sweeping, unabashedly earnest romantic fantasy that defies the cynicism […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Mock Up on Mu (2008)
Week 4 (July 12 – 18) – Roots of the Underground: Film-makers’ Coop The Film-Makers’ Cooperative is a non-profit dedicated to experimental and avant-garde cinema; almost all of the most well-known American experimental filmmakers have had works in their catalogue at some point. Craig Baldwin is a master of the cinematic cut-up, and with 2008’s Mock Up […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Secret Executioners (1982, 1984)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Secret Executioners was on USA Up All Night on September 7, 1990. Director Lee Doo-yong’s The Trouble-Solving Broker was made in 1982, but then Godfrey Ho got his hands on it and cut 18 minutes away while adding in a ton of new fighting footage. That means, if I do my math correctly, more than […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1991)
Week 4 (July 12 – 18) – Roots of the Underground: Film-makers’ Coop The Film-Makers’ Cooperative is a non-profit dedicated to experimental and avant-garde cinema; almost all of the most well-known American experimental filmmakers have had works in their catalogue at some point. “After thirty-three failed assassination attempts, entailing two thousand people, and fifty million dollars, they […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: The Screaming Tiger (1972)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Screaming Tiger was on USA Up All Night on August 3, 1990, as Wang Yu, King of Boxing. Also known as Ten Fingers of Steel and Screaming Ninja — there are no ninjas — this follows Ma Tai-Yung (Jimmy Wang Yu) as he travels to Japan. He isn’t there for the scenery. He’s there because a […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Flaming Creatures (1963)
Week 4 (July 12 – 18) – Roots of the Underground: Film-makers’ Coop The Film-Makers’ Cooperative is a non-profit dedicated to experimental and avant-garde cinema; almost all of the most well-known American experimental filmmakers have had works in their catalogue at some point. Flaming Creatures is largely non-narrative, transgressive joy. Smith, a visionary working with a shoestring […]
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