This movie doesn’t even take place in 2047, but I can only assume that Al Adamson and Sam Sherman saw Star Wars get hot and said, “Let’s put some tits on that.”

Overpopulation in the future is pretty bad, so the Controller (Erwin Fuller) makes sex illegal. Cindy (Catherine Erhardt) lives with her wicked stepmother — The Widow (Renee Harmon) — and two stepsisters —  Bella (Bhurni Cowans) and Stella (Adina Ross) — you know the story. You understand that she has a fairy godfather (Jay B. Larson) and that she’ll hook up with her Prince Charming, here named Tom Prince (Vaughn Armstrong). And yes, she disappears and he looks for her.

You may not expect robots to enforce the law against sex and the fact that this is a musical.

I love that the Canadian VHS release of this movie was so cheap that it was a duplicate of the hotel version of this movie. At six minutes, a voice tells viewers that the preview is over and that they must select to watch the whole movie and charge their bill. I can’t imagine anyone buying this thinking they were going to see more sex and instead getting more musical numbers.

Brooke Konrad (Agnes Albright) and Tanner Behlma (Andrew Bailes) are photographers who love to explore abandoned houses. It’s based on the feelings that director and writer John Pata had when he was inside a destroyed house.

During one of their exploratory photo sessions, they’re trapped by bad weather in an industrial structure where an unhoused man (Jeremy Holm) is also hiding out. He resembles Brooke’s deceased father, which starts to unlock past memories as that man committed suicide in front of her.

To make things even worse — can they get worse? — the entire building is filled with black mold that has hallucinogenic side effects. Which means by the end, no one knows what is real, what is memory and what is a strange homeless man raving about everyone being against him.

This is shot in some real abandoned structures and if I didn’t think so at the beginning of this movie, I am completely never going in a house or industrial space that’s been abandoned like the ones in this movie. They’re terrifying already and now that I have to worry about black mold making me crazy — well, more insane — I’m going to think about this all of the time.

The three leads are all really good in this and it feels pretty real, even when the mania overtakes them all.

You can watch this on Tubi.

Robert Sand (Jim Kelly), agent of D.R.A.G.O.N. (Defense Reserve Agency Guardian Of Nations), is just trying to play tennis when he gets called in to save Toki Konuma (Essie Lin Chia, Doomsday Machine), an ambassador’s daughter. This brings him into conflict with another group called Warlock who want the freeze bomb, a new weapon, and use drugs and voodoo ritual murder to get what they want.

They’re led by Janicot (Bill Roy), who has a whole army of people willing to dress up in voodoo costumes, along with an evil woman named Synn (Marilyn Joi) and even a vulture named Voltron.

Based on the book by Marc Olden, this was directed by Al Adamson and written by B. Readick and Marco Joachim.

It’s got a great cast, including Felix Silla (who has a whip and that’s worth watching this for just that moment), Cowboy Lang, Little Tokyo, Regina Carroll and even Aldo Ray as the leader of D.R.A.G.O.N.

It also has Jim Kelly flying with a jetpack like he’s James Bond. That’s worth watching this movie for. Oh yeah — he also punches two dudes right in the cock. And not over the course of the movie. I’m saying he gives them both Roshambo at the same time.

Tim Brown played football and acted, but because of the success of Jim Brown, who did the same things, he had to change his name to Timothy Brown. He stars in this as “Kicks” Carter, a Vegas cop fighting Ziggy’s (Russ Tamblyn) gang. He has to get revenge for his partner’s death and handle TV reporter Stephanie Adams (Tanya Boyd). Also: fight gun runners and save women from a house of ill repute. That’s a lot of work.

Directed by Al Adamson and written by John D’Amato, Sheldon Lee and Budd Donnelly, this is also known as The Murder Gang and Girl’s Hotel.

Regina Carroll shows up — well, she was Adamson’s wife — and so does Jana Bellan (Mary Lou from Sixpack Annie) and Adamson stock player Geoffrey Land. It seems like Tamblyn is having a lot of fun being an absolute lunatic and he makes this worth watching.

Whatever title you’ve seen it as — The Possession of Nurse Sherri, Black Voodoo, Beyond the Living, Hospital of Terror, Killer’s Curse or Hands of Death — you have to admit that you won’t forget this Al Adamson movie.

It’s somewhat inspired by Circle of Friends, a cult that was supposedly run by George G. Jurscek, who believed that a great political and economic collapse would occur before the year 2000. Or maybe it was actually run by a group of people that included Margaret L. Reinauer. They saw themselves as a capitalistic commune that was out to make its members healthy, wealthy and wise. So yes, while they used Gnostic Christianity, Anthroposophical Teachings and — you knew he’d get in here — the books of  Hal Lindsey to preach the end of the world, they also owned security, real estate, investment and construction businesses.

That’s where Reanhauer, the cult leader’s name, comes from.

Sherri (Jill Jacobson) is possessed by his spirit after he dies during an operation and he becomes a green chromakey blob that you could animate on your phone today and it’d look so much better. But hey, this is a small budget in 1977. Now, she’s out to kill all the doctors who let the cult master die unless her nurse compadres Tara Williams (Marilyn Joi) and Beth Dillon (Katherine Pass) can dig up the body of Reanhauer. Also: football hero Marcus Washington (Prentiss Moulden) has lost his eyesight and needs the aid of Tara, which means that yes, Marilyn Joi will be topless.

Did you ever wish that you could combine a possession movie with a New World nurses saga (thanks to Ian Jane for putting that in my head)? Then this is the only movie that I know that has ever tried to do that.

What a mix of ideas!

The sequel to The Naughty Stewardesses, this was supposed to be a 1940s throwback, which is why the Ritz Brothers — well, Harry and Jimmy as Alan had died — as well as Yvonne De Carlo, Don “Red” Barry and Robert Livingston are all in the cast. It was supposed to star the Three Stooges — which would have been Moe Howard, Joe DeRita and Emil Sitka — but Moe was too sick to be able to be in it.

It was going to be called The Jet Set before Blazing Saddles came out and the film became a Western, even if it’s also been released under the titles Cathouse Cowgirls, Texas Layover and The Great Truck Robbery.

At least the girls from the first movie — Debbie (Connie Hoffman), Barbara (Marilyn Joii) and Lori (Regina Carroll) — are back. They take a vacation at the Lucky Dollar Ranch, which is run by Brewster (Livingston), who is also playing the role he had in The Naughty Stewardesses. Masked riders soon appear and attack. There’s also a brothel that’s owned by Honey Morgan (De Carlo).

Would you enjoy watching the Ritz Brothers eat a really big sandwich from an entire movie? Then this is for you. That said, they were really influential among comedians if not successes in Hollywood. They also are in Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood.

Horror star Malicia Tombs (Linnea Quigley) mysteriously dies after leaving the set of her latest, now unfinished, low budget shot-on-video shocker. Soon, an unseen masked killer is chopping and hacking his/ her way through the cast and crew as punishment for Tomb’s death.

Let’s get meta. This super obscurity was shot in 1998 by indy horror stalwart Brad Sykes, and finally finished in 2002. Just like how Linnea’s character was in a lost movie, this itself was a lost film for some time but now it’s been released by Visual Vengeance.

After she left the set of director Eric Orloff’s (Jarrod Robbins, Evil Sister 2) Scream Queen, Malicia died in a car accident. As Detective Hammer (C. Courtney Joyner, the writer of From a Whisper to a Scream, Class of 1999 and Prison as well as the director of Trancers III) can’t find out who killed her, the entire movie just goes away, taking down several careers.

Or so it would seem, as Orloff and the cast and crew — special effects guy Squib (Bryan Cooper, who also worked on this movie’s effects), Christine (Nicole West), Runyon (Kurt Levee, Evil Sister), Jenni (Emilie Jo Tisdale, Escape from Hell) and Devon (Nova Sheppard) — are invited to a mansion by Malicia, who is not only alive but able to pay everyone as long as they don’t leave the set.

Is she a ghost? A demon? Or did she fake her death and is trying to find out who was trying to kill her with the bomb in her car? And who is the masked killer taking out everyone? And hey — how about Linnea singing “This Chainsaw’s Made For Cutting” in this movie?

The first movie by Brad Sykes (Plaguers, Hi-Death) and it may be shot on video, but you can already see the promise of his work. Make sure to check out the interview I did with Brad too!

Available for the first time ever on blu ray, Scream Queen has a new director-approved SD master from original tape elements, as well as commentary with director and writer Brad Sykes, behind the scenes documentary, the producer’s cut of the film, new interview with Linna Quigley and Mark Polonia, imagery galleries, script selects, a trailer, six-page liner notes by Tony Strauss of Weng’s Chop Magazine, a limited edition slipcase by Rick Melton and Series 2 video store rental card, a Linnea Quigley mini-poster, a “stick your own” VHS sticker set and a reversible sleeve with the original art. You can get it from MVD.