The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The Playgirls and the Vampire (1960)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Count Gabor Kernassy (Walter Brandi) lives in a castle surrounded by darkness and a forest, so when an entire group of exotic dancers, their piano player and their manager ends up on his doorstep, it all seems like a […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The Touch of Flesh (1960)
Johnny Legend’s Untamed Video (August 25 – 31) Welcome to the wonderfully wacky world of Johnny Legend’s Untamed Video! Take a walk on the wild side with troublesome teenagers, sleazy sex kittens, way-out hippies, country bumpkins, big bad bikers, Mexican wrestlers, and every other variety of social deviant you can think of. Joan Denton (Jeanne Rainer, […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The Beatniks (1960)
Johnny Legend’s Untamed Video (August 25 – 31) Welcome to the wonderfully wacky world of Johnny Legend’s Untamed Video! Take a walk on the wild side with troublesome teenagers, sleazy sex kittens, way-out hippies, country bumpkins, big bad bikers, Mexican wrestlers, and every other variety of social deviant you can think of. Paul Frees really did […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Horrors of Spider Island (1960)
Softcore Smorgasbord (August 4 – 10) All of the movies on this list have at one time or another been available through Something Weird Video. I’m sure I’ve missed some but many of them are still available on their website (until the end of 2024). These are their vintage softcore movies listed under categories with […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Blood and Roses (1960)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Blood and Roses was on the CBS Late Movie on July 15, 1975. Carmilla has been made so many times — Vampyr, Dracula’s Daughter, Crypt of the Vampire, The Vampire Lovers, The Blood Spattered Bride — but the Roger Vadim-directed movie moves the setting to Italy in the 20th century. Carmilla (Annette Stroyberg, Vadim’s wife at the […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Ship of Monsters (1960)
Bleeding Skull’s Top 50 (July 7 – 13) The middle-brow champions of low-brow horror, Bleeding Skull has picked out some of their favorites from the SWV catalog. They neglected to put I Drink Your Blood or EEGAH! on the list, but I think I can forgive them since they included Ship of Monsters. Rogelio A. […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2024: House of Usher (1960)
Adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Fall of the House of Usher, this film marked the beginning of a series of eight Poe adaptations by Roger Corman, often in collaboration with writer Richard Matheson. Shot in a mere fifteen days, it was a bold departure for American-International Pictures, known for its black-and-white double […]
Junesploitation: Urlatori alla Sbarra (1960)
June 17: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Lucio Fulci! We’re excited to tackle a different genre every day, so check back and see what’s next. When writers cover Italian exploitation film genres, often the concentration is on horror, cannibal movies, mondos, Westerns, giallo. Anything but musicarello, which […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Drected by Roger Corman, written by Charles B. Griffith and made under the name The Passionate People Eater, this movie was made in two days for $28,000 on the same sets as A Bucket of Blood. Playing double features with Black Sunday and Last Woman On Earth, it became a cult film and that continued once it aired […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: 13 Ghosts (1960)
We need more people like William Castle. As he starts the movie explaining how the gimmick works — Illusion-O — we learn that we will have the chance to see ghosts. Or not. Most scenes of the movie is in black and white, but scenes involving ghosts let you watch them with special viewing glasses. […]
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