Man, this week, we get into Domino and 976-Evil 2. Never let anyone say that we don’t cover the classiest of films or the most normal ones. You can watch Domino on YouTube and 976-Evil 2 on YouTube.
Yes, everyone can talk about All the Colors of the Dark and Torso, but let’s get deep into Sergio Martino with four of my favorite weird picks from him.
Uppercut Man finds Sergio in Miami, making a boxing movie that isn’t like any other. Ernest Borgnine, Daniel Greene, Mary Stavin, Giuliano Gemma…Crud Buddies have this posted on YouTube.
American Rickshaw is the most perfect of all late Martino movies: shower sex with the jeans on, rickshaws in Miami, Donald Pleasence as a faith healing warthog…get it from Cauldron Video.
Graffiante desiderio has Sergio going back to the Giallo but also incest and a dummy drop ending. Craving Desire is hard to find but if you’re ready to infest your computer with viruses, go here.
Un orso chiamato Arturo has George Segal and Carol Alt. Yes, in a Sergio Martino movie. It’s on YouTube in Italian, so learn a new language.
Is there a secret prize for finishing this episode? Did I compose a song for it? What are you waiting for? Go listen!
Oh man, Italian gothic! Put on your white diaphonous dress and grab a candlabra! It’s Lady Frankenstein and Monster of the Opera. You can get them in the Severin Danza Macabra: The Italian Gothic Collection Volume 1 set or watch them on Tubi:
For the hundredth episode, I had to think: what is my favorite movie, really? And the answer, as always, is Flash Gordon. He’s just a man, with a man’s courage. You know how it is.
Ben Shear asked me to do Heart of Midnight, so I went one further and did Single White Female too. Two movies where Jennifer Jason Leigh made a young me feel weird in the pants.
Other than Italians, no one makes a better post-apocalyptic movie than the Philippines. Fight me, Australia. This week, we go hard on W Is War and Mad Warrior, it’s kind of sort of sequel. Get ready to go crazy.
It’s two tastes that do not go well together! Meteor and Black Roses! All they have in common is that not many people like either movie, but I love them both.