WEIRD WEDNESDAY: TNT Jackson (1977)
Roger Corman’s New World Pictures decided that it was time to mash up the emerging martial arts craze with the unstoppable power of Blaxploitation. Enter TNT Jackson (released in the Philippines as Dynamite Wong and T.N.T. Jackson). Originally scripted by legendary character actor Dick Miller, the film hit a bump during production. Corman felt Miller’s […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Tintorera…Tiger Shark (1977)
When I was a kid in the 1970’s, I sat in a B. Dalton’s reading room — parents routinely dropped kids off to read without any fear of kidnapping back then—and discovered a copy of Alex Comfort’s The Joy of Sex on a shelf. I had no idea what it was at the time, but […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Tiffany Jones (1973)
Pete Walker (Die Screaming, Marianne; Frightmare; House of the Long Shadows) directed this movie, which is based on the comic strip by Pat Tourret and Jenny Butterworth. It fits nicely into both the comic book and spy genres. Anouska Hempel was one of the Angels of Death in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and she […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Thirsty Dead (1974)
This starts like a women in prison Phillipines-made Roger Corman movie but before you’re ready, the kidnapped ladies all end up in a camp run by Baru (John Considine), who has a crazy necklace and cape. I think it’s his fashion that made him ruler and part of their immortal cult that drinks the blood […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Thing With Two Heads (1972)
Dr. Maxwell Kirshner (Ray Milland) knows that he’s dying, but that’s why he’s getting his team of surgeons to do head transplants with gorillas. He’s running out of time, and Dr. Philip Desmond (Roger Perry) has hired a black doctor — Dr. Phillip Desmond (Don Marshall) –, and Kirshner shows off that he’s totally racist. […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: They Call Me Bruce? (1982)
Directed by Elliott Hong and written by David B. Randolph and Tim Clawson, They Call Me Bruce? begins with a young Bruce watching his grandfather die and being unable to save him. He tells the boy that a beautiful woman in America will take care of him. Then we see that Bruce (Johnny Yune) has become […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Texas Lightning (1981)
Gary Graver was many things—a film director, editor, screenwriter and cinematographer — and, as Robert McCallum, the director and cinematographer of 135 adult movies. He’s in the Adult Video News Hall of Fame for his work, including Amanda By Night, Coed Fever, Suzie Superstar and Unthinkable, which won the AVN Award for Best All-Sex Video […]
WEIRD WENESDAY: Terrorvision (1986)
Movies like this are why we created this website. Terrorvision is a lunatic voyage into the 80s, with its tongue planted so firmly in its cheek that it’s gorily popping out the other side. It’s one of the strangest films you’ll see. And it gets a high recommendation from us. Why? Ted Nicolaou directed more than […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Terror (1978)
Norman J. Warren is the kind of director who knows exactly what you want. You aren’t coming to one of his movies to learn some life lesson or to go to a salon and debate afterward. No, you’re here for all the reasons that you watch horror and exploitation movies. You want to be shocked, […]
WEIRD WEDNESDSAY: Terminal Island (1973)
Terminal Island has been created as an offshore island prison after the abolition of the death penalty by the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, first-degree murderers are sent there to spend the rest of their lives battling to remain alive in what has become a lawless place. Kind of like Escape from New York, only eight […]
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