WEIRD WEDNESDAY: All the Sins of Sodom (1968)
The title of this movie is awesome, but then I found out that it’s also called All The Evils Of Satan, and I don’t know if I could be more enthusiastic about a film. New York City shutterbug Henning (Dan Machuen) is supposed to shoot some nudes for his agent Paula (Peggy Sarno), but is […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: All the Colors of the Dark (1972)
The first five and a half minutes of 1972’s All the Colors of the Dark (also known as Day of the Maniac and They’re Coming to Get You!) subvert what I call Giallo’s “graphic beauty” in intriguing ways. An outdoor scene of a stream slowly darkens, replaced by an old crone with blackened teeth, dressed as a child and a […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Alley Cat (1984)
Alley Cat has three directors. I have no idea why, but Victor M. Ordonez (who is in Nine Deaths of the Ninja and Hellhole), Ed Palmos and Al Valetta (who is in Sole Survivor, Runaway Nightmare and Hollywood’s New Blood) all had their hand in this movie, leaving Robert Waters, who also wrote Fighting Mad, to write the actual story. […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Adios Amigo (1975)
Richard Pryor may have co-written Blazing Saddles, but didn’t star in it. Fred Williamson thought it was too silly, so the two of them got together and made their own Western comedy. The script was just 12 pages, and Pryor ad-libbed most of it. Williamson said, “I wanted to give him an idea, a concept, and then just […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Act of Aggression (1975)
Directed by Gérard Pirès — who wrote the story with the author of the book that it’s based on, Jean-Patrick Manchette, although John Buell’s novel The Shrewsdale Exit has also been cited as an inspiration in other places — L’agression is the story of Paul Varlin (Jean-Louis Trintignant), who obviously has road rage issues. Well, after some bikers […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Abductors (1972)
There’s an edited version of this movie on YouTube that censors nearly every few words and has nearly half an hour missing. That’s how scuzzy this movie is, a film that feels like you’re in the middle of a New Jersey swamp, covered in toxic waste. It was directed and written by Don Schain, the […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Abar, the First Black Superman (1977)
Also known as SuperBlack and In Your Face, this movie features Dr. Kinkade giving a special formula to his bodyguard, John Abar, to transform him into a black superhero. It was shot in the Baldwin Hills and Watts neighborhoods of Los Angeles without any permits. When the cops showed up, the actors playing the motorcycle gang surrounded them […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: 99 Women (1969)
This movie is quite literally the Justice League — more like the Legion of Doom — of scumbag film superstars. It was written and produced by Harry Alan Towers, who transitioned from syndicating radio and TV shows to being arrested, along with his girlfriend, Mariella Novotny — who was played by Britt Eklund in Scandal […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: 976-EVIL (1988)
Spike and Hoax (Stephen Geoffreys from Fright Night) are cousins who live under the overly watchful eye of Hoax’s super religious mother, Lucy (Sandy Dennis, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, God Told Me To). They couldn’t be more different. Hoax is a nerd afraid of everyone, while Spike is a motorcycle-riding bad boy with the girl […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: 13 Frightened Girls! (1963)
I’ve been inspired by the book Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive and have decided that every Wednesday on the site will be films that played as part of the Alamo Draft House Weird Wednesday events. William Castle loved a gimmick. Here, he promised that each of the […]
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