WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things (1971)
Shot in Hollywood, Florida, this tale of Stanley (Wayne Crawford, under the name Scott Lawrence; he also wrote Valley Girl, Barracuda and Jake Speed) and Paul (Abe Zwick in his lone acting role) begins after they escape from Baltimore and go on the lam. Paul begins to dress in drag and act as Stanley’s Aunt Martha while falling […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: The 39 Steps (1935)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 39 Steps was on the CBS Late Movie on March 16, 1973; April 29, 1974; Based on The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, this is the story of Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), an ordinary man who is somehow caught up in the evil deeds of spies who call themselves The 39 Steps. They’re stealing […]
Lovers Are Wet (1973)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Randy Victor Ian helps cover the Japanese roman porno beat for B&S About Movies. Director Tatsumi Kumashiro’s Lovers Are Wet is a more dramatic entry in the roman porno genre, following drifter Katsu’s (Toru Ohe) return to his hometown, where he vehemently denies who he is to those who remember him well. He […]
Night of the Felines (1972)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Randy Victor Ian helps cover the Japanese roman porno beat for B&S About Movies. You know you’re in for a roman porno that has more lighthearted moments than usual when the opening scene involves oversized sausages on a pile of spaghetti. Don’t get too comfortable, though, as director Noboru Tanaka’s Night of the […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Assassin (1986)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Assassin was on the CBS Late Movie on June 2, 1989. Henry Stanton (Robert Conrad, try to knock a battery off his shoulder ) is a retired agent from an intelligence agency not to be named who is brought back in when a top-secret robot named Robert Golem (Richard Young, the man who gave Indiana Jones his […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Possibly In Michigan (1983)
Week 11 (Aug 30 – Sept 5) – Lost in the Static: SOV Horror Directed by Women: I dunno about you, but I wanna see more ladies directing gory, fucked-up SOV horror! Obviously this isn’t everything that’s out there, it’s just the ones discussed in Rachel Herb-Neterer’s book “Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-On-Video […]
How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980)
Set against the backdrop of late-70s economic turbulence, the film follows three lifelong friends in Eugene, Oregon—Jane (Susan Saint James), Elaine (Jane Curtin) and Louise (Jessica Lange)—who are pushed to the absolute financial brink by inflation, messy divorces and collapsing businesses. When ordinary life becomes completely untenable, they hatch an audacious scheme: drill a hole […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Limbo (1999)
Week 11 (Aug 30 – Sept 5) – Lost in the Static: SOV Horror Directed by Women: I dunno about you, but I wanna see more ladies directing gory, fucked-up SOV horror! Obviously this isn’t everything that’s out there, it’s just the ones discussed in Rachel Herb-Neterer’s book “Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-On-Video […]
Sybil Danning’s Adventure Video: The Brave Bunch (1970)
For some reason, the Sybil Danning Adventure Video line is rich with Greek war movies. I guess they were inexpensive and would never sell unless they put Sybil on the box. Well, guess the fact that I am writing about this nearly fifty years later means it was a good idea. Set during the turbulent […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: The Demon’s Rook (2013)
Week 10 (Aug 23 – 29) – Mill Creek’s Mausoleum of Mumblegore: The indie wing of low-budget horror or the horror wing of low-budget indie. A young boy named Roscoe (who grows up to be director and writer James Sizemore) encounters a mysterious portal leading to an underworld realm, where he is taken in and mentored in black […]
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