WEIRD WEDNESDAY: A Taste of Hell (1973)
“…and Satan smiled.” That’s how this movie ends. Honestly, if Satan were sitting through this, he really would smile because he’d know he was about to get another soul who died of pure, unadulterated boredom. Released by Harry Novak’s Boxoffice International Pictures, A Taste of Hell feels like a massive identity crisis. Novak usually traffics […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Taoism Drunkard (1984)
Directed by and starring Yuen Cheung-Yan, this serves as the spiritual (and sort of) third entry in the legendary Miracle Fighters series. Operating under the powerhouse Yuen Clan banner—the cinematic bloodline of patriarch Yuen Siu-Tien (Jackie Chan’s beloved master in Drunken Master)—the film operates entirely on Looney Tunes logic. Physics are treated as polite suggestions, […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Tale of the Dean’s Wife (1970)
A band of hyper-serious, free-loving student anarchists marches into the woods to workshop a manifesto against their hopelessly uptight, stick-in-the-mud campus dean (Riger Gentry). Naturally, this heavy-duty socio-political planning session immediately devolves into a sprawling forest sex-romp. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the dean’s redheaded wife (Luanne Roberts) is quietly leading a sexual revolution of […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
King Cromwell (Richard Lynch, Bad Dreams, God Told Me To) has come the whole way to Tomb Island to find Xusia (Richard Moll, contractually obligated to be in all 1980’s sword and sorcery movies, although a bad reaction to the contacts needed for his makeup caused Moll to only physically appear in the opening scene), a dead […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Switchblade Sisters (1975)
So easy to love. So hard to kill. Man, if there’s such a thing as a perfect movie, put Switchblade Sisters on the list. Maggie (Joanna Nail, the mother of The Visitor!) has moved to a new high school run by the Silver Daggers and their women, the Dagger Debs. Maggie gets caught up in an arrest, […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Swinging Co-eds (1972)
When you doubt what a movie is and it’s playing at a drive-in in the 70s, chances are it’s a Schoolgirl Report movie. Also known as Sex at the Olympics and Girls Who Came to Munich, this is—like those films—a stitched-together carousel of softcore vignettes set against the backdrop of Munich 1972 that has absolutely […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Sweet Sugar (1972)
Sugar Bowman (Phyllis Davis, who played Susan Lake in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls) takes a deal to serve two years working on Dr. John’s (Angus Duncan) sugarcane plantation rather than go to prison for a crime she didn’t commit. When she’s not out in the fields cutting crops with a machete all day, she […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Sweet Savior (1971)
The man named Matt Cavanaugh who wrote this doesn’t exist. It’s really Willie Gilbert, the author and playwright. After he left Cleveland for New York City, he discovered that his physician, Jack Weinstock, shared his dream of becoming a writer. They wrote for nightclub performers, Broadway reviews on early TV shows like Howdy Doody and Tom Corbett, […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Surf II (1984)
If it weren’t for the book Teen Movie Hell, I would never have discovered this film. I feel like my life is infinitely better for watching this movie, which surprised me every step of the way with how far it was willing to go. Every time I thought that it had reached the limit, it climbed […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Supervan (1977)
This is a vansploitation movie. Yes, that’s really a genre and there are several films in it, of which I can name Blue Summer, The Van (obviously), Best Friends, C.B. Hustlers (which has Uschi Digard in it), Mag Wheels, Van Nuys Blvd. and I guess you could almost count On the Air Live with Captain Midnight. There’s a great article […]
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