The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Jack and the Beanstalk (1970)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Barry Mahon was shot down over Germany and escaped — and was recaptured — at Stalag Luft III before being freed by Patton’s 3rd Army. Once he got back to the U.S., he became the personal pilot and later […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: 101 Acts of Love (1971)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Dr. Ann Foster (Lindis Guinness, playing the film’s writer, who also was behind another adult movie made that year, The Flanders and Alcott Report on Sexual Response) is trying to get the Johnsons — Bob (John Keith) and Marie (Susan […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Bunny Yeager’s Las Vegas (1964)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! You know, this movie isn’t very good, but I just want to talk about Bunny Yeager, so indulge me. Linnea Eleanor “Bunny” Yeager was born in Wilkinsburg, one of the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and moved to Florida when she […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Atomic Rulers (1957)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! There are nine Sūpā Jaiantsu (Super Giant) movies that were first shown in Japan. Takeo Nagamatsu’s 1930 kamishibai The Golden Bat (Ōgon Batto) may have been Japan’s first modern superhero and Gekkō Kamen (Moonlight Mask) the first hero to be on […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Alice In Acidland (1969)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Rescued by Something Weird, Alice In Acidland starts as a nudie cutie before its black and white sequences go full color once that acid gets dropped. Alice (Sheri Jackson, The Babysitter, Love Camp 7) is a good college girl who goes to […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The Witch’s Mirror (1960)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! The Witch’s Mirror is why I love 1960’s Mexican horror. Some movies of that era only hint at witchcraft and the occult and this one goes full in, showing rituals and all manner of Satanic mayhem. Ah, Mexico. Long may […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The Sex Killer (1965)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! This is the definition of scuzz: Barry Mahon did not put his name on this movie. Tony works in a mannequin factory and can’t connect with anyone, despite people trying to include him. Instead, he spies on sunbathing women […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Requiem for a Vampire (1972)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Shot in a historical castle in the small village of Crêvecoeur, Requiem for a Vampire finds director Jean Rollin’s fourth female vampire movie. The castle was nice — it was filled with expensive antiques — but Rollin was more interested […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The House on Bare Mountain (1962)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! You’ve never seen more! Let us prove it to you when the monsters meet the girls! The nudies meet the nasties! No monster ever had it so good! See Frankenstein do the twist with Miss Hollywood! The gayest girlie […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks (1974)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Known in Italy as Terror! Il Castello Delle Donne Maledette (Terror! The Castle of Cursed Women), this movie was released as Terror Castle, The House of Freaks, The Monsters of Dr. Frankenstein and Dr. Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks in the U.S., while it was […]
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