The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Nightmare Castle (1965)
69 EsSINtial SWV Titles (September 15 – 21): Klon, who came up with this list, said “This isn’t the 69 BEST SWV movies, it isn’t my 69 FAVORITE SWV movies, my goal was to highlight 69 of the MOST SWV movies.” You can see the whole list here, including some of the ones I’ve already […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Vapors (1965)
69 EsSINtial SWV Titles (September 15 – 21): Klon, who came up with this list, said “This isn’t the 69 BEST SWV movies, it isn’t my 69 FAVORITE SWV movies, my goal was to highlight 69 of the MOST SWV movies.” You can see the whole list here, including some of the ones I’ve already […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The Beast That Killed Women (1965)
Frank Henenlotter’s Sexy Shockers (September 1 – 7) We all know Frank Hennenlotter as the director of the Basket Case films, Bad Biology, Brain Damage, and Frankenhooker, but he’s also a cinematic curator of the crass! An academic of the pathetic! A steward of sleaze! A sexton of the sexual and the Sexy Shocker series is […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Scream of the Butterfly (1965)
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. Directed by Eber Lobato […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: La Loba (1965)
Golden Oldies Week (July 27 – August 3) Something Weird Video have released such a wide range of movies over the last 30 years that trying to categorize them can be tricky. They started out as a gray market mail order distributor (aka a bootlegger) not unlike the Cape Copy Center or Sinister Cinema and […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Space Probe Taurus (1965)
Golden Oldies Week (July 27 – August 3) Something Weird Video have released such a wide range of movies over the last 30 years that trying to categorize them can be tricky. They started out as a gray market mail order distributor (aka a bootlegger) not unlike the Cape Copy Center or Sinister Cinema and […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: The Alphabet Murders (1965)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Alphabet Murders was on the CBS Late Movie on April 5 and August 10, 1972. Directed by Frank Tashlin (The Girl Can’t Help It, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?) and written by David Pursall and Jack Seddon, this film didn’t win the favor of Agatha Christie — who objected to bedroom scenes — […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Monster A Go-Go (1965)
Herschell Gordon Lewis week (July 14 – 20) HG seemed to truly love packing theaters. He’s most famous for introducing gore to horror movies, but he’d fill any need that the audience had. He made every genre of exploitation __ – even kids movies! Gore movies would’ve happened eventually, but Herschell seemed to take joy […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Color Me Blood Red (1965)
Herschell Gordon Lewis week (July 14 – 20) HG seemed to truly love packing theaters. He’s most famous for introducing gore to horror movies, but he’d fill any need that the audience had. He made every genre of exploitation __ – even kids movies! Gore movies would’ve happened eventually, but Herschell seemed to take joy […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Monsters Crash the Pajama Party (1965)
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. Sadly, we […]
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