Sept 22-28 Chuck Vincent Week: No one did it like Chuck! He’s the unsung king of Up All Night comedy, a queer director making the straightest romcoms but throwing in muscle studs and drag queens. His films explore the concept of romance from almost every angle – he was deeply passionate about love.

Directed by Chuck Vincent and written by Mark Borde and Avrumie Schnitzer, this had such a low budget that the cast and crew actually stayed at camp to save money.

Here’s the story: Camp Malibu’s director, Herman (John F. Goff using the name Jack Barnes), invites past campers to a ten-year reunion in the hopes of persuading the young adults to help save the camp. Hijinks ensue, and at least everyone is in their twenties, right? But why are they having a contest over who can poop the most?

It’s also a The Witch Who Came from the Sea reunion! John F. Goff and Virkina Flower were both in that. At least this time, he wasn’t her abusive father, and she wasn’t the younger version of his daughter.

Speaking of Virinka, her career was wild. As a child, she appeared in the aforementioned Matt Cimber film and Drive-In Massacre, as well as Mag Wheels, The Capture of Bigfoot, Beyond Evil, Terror On Tour (as the “well-endowed lady”), the end-of-times movie Early Warning, and the Leif Garrett film Longshot. She went on to be a costume designer — on the Chuck Norris kid film Top Dog and the Aaron Norris starring Overkill — as well as a set decorator on Kirdy Stevens’ adult film Playing With Fire, as a wardrobe supervisor on Frightmare, They’re Playing With Fire, Silent Night, Deadly Night, Midnight and Grounded for Life, plus being the assistant director on Island Fury. And oh yeah! She’s the daughter of George “Buck” Flower.

If you see Barbara Gold in this role as Pam and wonder, “Why do I know her?” That’s a super young Linnea Quigley.

Also look out for Brenda Fogarty (Fairy Tales, Fantasm Comes Again) and Vincent as a prospector under the name Dustin Pacino Jr.

You can watch this on Tubi.

Sept 22-28 Chuck Vincent Week: No one did it like Chuck! He’s the unsung king of Up All Night comedy, a queer director making the straightest romcoms but throwing in muscle studs and drag queens. His films explore the concept of romance from almost every angle – he was deeply passionate about love.

Directed and written by Chuck Vincent, this has Leo Blockman (Scott Baker ), a sexist boor, getting shot by a woman he is sexually harassing. He falls into the river and is transformed into Cleo Clock (Veronica Hart), and he has to figure out his new life as a woman, learning what life is like from the other side, all while discovering that his brother, Marvin (Alan Naggar), is ruining the company they built together.

Hart is fantastic, as always, and so is Ginger Lynn as her roommate, Karen. Plus, there are roles for Ruth Collins (Firehouse, Blood Sisters), Jennifer Delora (who, like Collins, was in the Electric Blue adult films, but is also in Deranged, Frankenhooker and Bedroom Eyes II), December 1988 Penthouse Magazine Pet of the Month Kimberly Taylor and Monique Gabrielle (Young Lady Chatterley II, Emmanuelle 5).

This is a very expected sex swap comedy, but you know, I kind of loved it. I’m easy when it comes to Chuck Vincent.

You can watch this on YouTube or on the Cave of Forgotten Films.

Sept 22-28 Chuck Vincent Week: No one did it like Chuck! He’s the unsung king of Up All Night comedy, a queer director making the straightest romcoms but throwing in muscle studs and drag queens. His films explore the concept of romance from almost every angle – he was deeply passionate about love.

Also known as Wildest Dreams, this is the last film that Chuck Vincent directed. Within a year, he and his frequent writing partner Craig Horrall would be dead from AIDS, and we’d be left with these films running eternally on USA Up All Night and now YouTube and Tubi, the kind of films that don’t get released in boutique format UHDs with tons of extras. No, if you love Chuck Vincent movies, you’re often on your own.

Shout out to The Schlock Pit, who are the only other reviewers of this movie on IMDB. Those guys are tastemakers.

Bobby (James Davies) thought he’d have the summer at the beach to party. But no, he’s forced to run the family antique business when his parents (Veronica Hart and Harvey Siegel) leave town and force him to learn some responsibility. What he does find is a magical lamp, as you do in antique stores, gets a genie named Dancee (Heidi Paine, whose career is made up of roles like Party Girl, Perfect Girl No. 8 and Cake Lady) and uses his wishes to become attractive to the women who would never notice him before.

Those women include cleaning-obsessed Isabelle (Jeanne Marie, Young Nurses In Love) and delivery girl Stella (Ruth Collins, Any Time, Any Play). Like all magical sex comedies, the real girl he chooses is the nerdy Joan, who is played by Tracey Adams, using her mainstream name Deborah Blaisdell. She was an adult from 1983 to 2000, and since then, she has attended UCLA’s Film & TV Program and studied with The Groundlings.

Some people will hate this movie. Others will see it as a comforting part of the past, a film they watched in the middle of the night, dreaming of being an adult and then growing up to dream of being a teenager.

You can watch this on YouTube.

Sept 22-28 Chuck Vincent Week: No one did it like Chuck! He’s the unsung king of Up All Night comedy, a queer director making the straightest romcoms but throwing in muscle studs and drag queens. His films explore the concept of romance from almost every angle – he loved love!

A Chuck Vincent-directed barbarian movie — written by that maniac Harry Alan Towers (using the name Peter Welbeck), Rick Marx (Doom Asylum, Gor II, Tenement, so much adult) and S.C. Darcy — starring Donald Pleasence, Sybil Danning, adult star Samantha Fox (not the singer, but the one who went by Stasia Micula), J. J. Jones (Christine, Love Circles, Black Venus), David Brandon (Stagefright) and Tally Chanel (Hollywood Hot. Tubs 2: Educating Crystal) and I haven’t seen it?

And it’s shot by Gianlorenzo Battaglia, the cinematographer of Demons?

And it’s associate produced by Joe D’Amato?!?

The man who protected Haddonfield by sending cop cars into teenagers is Clodius Flaucus — not Claudius — the emperor of this porno peplum Rome, one that ends with a volcano killing almost everyone. But that’s not an effect, that’s footage stolen from Last Days of Pompeii, which D’Amato also ripped off for Diary of a Roman Virgin, and Bruno Mattei lifted in his movie Nerone e Poppea. Yet this is a film that begins with Berenice (Danning) killing a bunch of dudes with a sword, so if you aren’t into that, go look in the mirror and see if you have a soul or not.

Dudes armwrestle to the death as if this were the movie that my grade school fellow movie maniacs described as Caligula, but on a Joe D’Amato budget. Joe was probably like, “I already made this movie when it was called Caligula: The Untold Story in 1982.”

A gladiator who goes by Goliath (Marco Tullio Cau, the evil deity in Specters) wants to assault new female slave — and virgin — Vespa (Chanel), who is being inducted into the art of lovemaking by Chloe (Jones). Berenice protects her, but she’d better be ready, because this is one bad guy who doesn’t know the meaning of no. It almost happens again, one day later, but Marcus (Hill) saves her. She pledges her virginity to him, which is good, because he straight up murders Goliath in the gladiator battles just in time for the volcano to destroy Pompeii and kill everyone evil.

So basically, Sybil Danning and the Deathstalker (well, one of them, you know how that goes) team up, orgies happen all over the place, an insane Pleasence chases doves, a frisbee gets thrown into the audience and kills someone, slaves are hung upside down and stripped…yes, Vincent may have started in porn. Still, now he has Aristide Massaccesi and Harry Alan Towers on his side, which is seriously like being around The Avengers of sleaze.

And a Boris Vallejo poster?

Where was Laura Gemser in all this? Seriously, if she showed up, I probably could have died happy, never watching another movie, secure in this scum.

You can watch this on Tubi.

Sept 15-21 Mockumentary Week: “Ladies and gentlemen, by way of introduction, this is a film about trickery – and fraud. About lies. Tell it by the fireside, in a marketplace, or in a movie. Almost any story is almost certainly some kind of lie. But not this time. No, this is a promise. During the next hour, everything you hear from us is really *true* and based on solid facts.”

This was produced by Weird Al Yankovic’s manager Jay Levey, his friend Hamilton Cloud, and Robert K. Weiss, who had previously produced The Kentucky Fried Movie and The Blues Brothers. This is the life story of Al, mixed with moments that cross over with his videos, like “Ricky,” “I Love Rocky Road,” “Like a Surgeon”, “I Lost On Jeopardy,” “Dare to Be Stupid”, “Midnite Star,” and “One More Minute.”

At one point, Al goes to Michael Jackson’s house, which is the House on Haunted Hill. And hey, Al TV clips!

I was waiting in the express lane
With my twelve items or less
At the checkout counter at the local grocery store
I was only passin’ by

But a paper caught my eye
And I learned a few things
I never knew before
It said

Your pet may be an extra-terrestrial
It said The ghost of Elvis is living in my den
You can learn to cope with stress
And you can beat the IRS

And the Incredible Frog Boy is on the loose again
Ohhh Midnight Star
It’s in the weekly Midnight Star
Aliens from outer space are sleeping in my car
Midnight Star, I wanna know, I wanna know!”

As you can expect, Weird Al is very important to me.

Dick Clark and Rick Derringer were in this. Yes, the man who wrote the entrance music for Demolition.

The world needs more Weird Al. As well as Dr. Demento.

You can watch this on Tubi.

Sept 15-21 Mockumentary Week: “Ladies and gentlemen, by way of introduction, this is a film about trickery – and fraud. About lies. Tell it by the fireside, in a marketplace, or in a movie. Almost any story is almost certainly some kind of lie. But not this time. No, this is a promise. During the next hour, everything you hear from us is really *true* and based on solid facts.”

Directed and written by Andrew Bujalski (Mutual Appreciation), the godfather of mumblecore, this was shot with analog video cameras with an improvisational script. It takes place in 1980, the early days of AI — which gets mentioned — as a bunch of computer guys bring their computers to play chess against one another, while a human potential group attempts to connect with the nerds. And by that, I mean have sex with them.

Yet in spite of this feeling like a fly on the wall and real, it doesn’t feel forced.

Pauline: Peter, did you ever stop and ask yourself how many squares are on a chessboard?

Peter: 64. It’s an 8 by 8 grid.

Pauline: Well… but don’t you see how limited that is?

Peter: No, it’s actually very complex once you start to think about it as a programming problem. Just the number of possible games explodes exponentially with each move; it’s close to 10 to the 120th power. And to try to compute all those games might take even longer than humanity would be around to do so.

Some people want to feel a connection. Others just want to program computers to do it for them.

A quirky, magic little movie.

You can watch this on Tubi.

Sept 15-21 Mockumentary Week: “Ladies and gentlemen, by way of introduction, this is a film about trickery – and fraud. About lies. Tell it by the fireside, in a marketplace, or in a movie. Almost any story is almost certainly some kind of lie. But not this time. No, this is a promise. During the next hour, everything you hear from us is really *true* and based on solid facts.”

The winner of the 1972 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, this was directed by Ed Spiegel and Walon Green and written by David Seltzer, who also wrote The Omen and Prophecy, as well as directing and writing Lucas, Punchline and so many more.

Dr. Nils Hellstrom isn’t real. He’s actor Lawrence Pressman, so when he’s telling you about how ants will rule the planet, he’s kidding. Or maybe he isn’t. Honestly, this is as BS as a Sunn Classics doc, but with incredible insect footage, you won’t care. I still can’t believe this played double features with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The drugs in the 70s!

If you’re afraid of insects, this is not for you. I mean, they tear a lizard to pieces!

You can watch this on YouTube.

Sept 15-21 Mockumentary Week: “Ladies and gentlemen, by way of introduction, this is a film about trickery – and fraud. About lies. Tell it by the fireside, in a marketplace, or in a movie. Almost any story is almost certainly some kind of lie. But not this time. No, this is a promise. During the next hour, everything you hear from us is really *true* and based on solid facts.”

Directed and written by Kevin Willmott, this is a history documentary in a parallel world where the South won and Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation failed. Confederate President Jefferson Davis got British and French aid for the Confederacy, giving them the ability to win the Battle of Gettysburg, destroy Washington, D.C. and capture the White House. Slavery still exists in 2004.

Sherman Hoyle, a conservative Southerner (think Shelby Foote from Ken Burns’ The Civil War) and Patricia Johnson, a black Canadian, tell this story. In the world that we’re watching, Canada has allowed slaves and even Lincoln within its borders, allowing them to savor freedom, which doesn’t exist in the U.S. It’s also why JFK died, trying to make black men free.

If this offends you, realize something: most of the products in it are real products from American history, as explained in the closing disclaimers.

The film’s website goes even deeper: President William McKinley is assassinated by an abolitionist, rather than the anarchist Leon Czolgosz. The CSA wins the space race after recruiting German scientists after Operation Paperclip. Rosa Parks is a Canadian member of the John Brown Underground. Pope John Paul II is wounded in New York by a Southern Baptist gunman. Timothy McVeigh blows up the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and is executed on pay-per-view television. The CSA fights crusades in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan with the express goal of Christianizing the Islamic world and getting their oil.

The sad thing is, this was thought to be silly when it came out in 2004. Watching it today in 2025, it felt like CNN.

You can watch this on YouTube.