CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Lightning Bolt (1966)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Lightning Bolt was on Chiller Theater on Saturday. January 3, 1970 at 11:30 p.m. This was the first show that The Saturday Late Show becomes known as The Saturday Late Show, Chiller Theater. Whether it’s Yor Hunter from the Future, Death Rage, Castle of Blood, And God Said to Cain, Cannibal Apocalypse or the Rick Dalton-starring Operation Dyn-O-Mite, Antonio Margheriti never […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: The Deadly Bees (1966)
Based on H.F. Heard’s 1941 novel A Taste for Honey, this Freddie Francis film-part of UK science fiction and horror history-predates the 70s killer bee craze by nearly 10 years. You know, singers don’t just get exhausted today and have to escape from reality. They used to in 1966, Vicki Robbins (Suzanna Leigh, Lust for a […]
RADIANCE FILMS: The Betrayal (1966)
Raizo Ichikawa, a name that should be etched into the brain of every genre fan for his work in the Shinobi series, plays an honorable samurai who makes the ultimate sacrifice. When a murder goes down, he steps up to take the rap, protecting his clan with the promise of a quiet exile and a […]
CULTPIX MONTH: Aroused (1966)
New York City in the mid-1960s is a gritty, gray, neon-lit concrete jungle and someone is making it a lot emptier. A brutal serial killer is stalking the rain-slicked streets of Manhattan, specifically targeting sex workers. Enter Detective Innes (Steve Hollister), a world-weary cop who looks like he’s fueled entirely by stale coffee and cheap […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Moonlighting Wives (1966)
While the rest of the exploitation filmmakers were busy filming grainy loops of women peeling oranges, Sarno was busy being the Ingmar Bergman of 42nd Street. He didn’t just want to show skin; he wanted to show the quiet, desperate rot behind the picket fence. Moonlighting Wives follows Mrs. Joan Rand (Tammy Latour), a woman […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 24: Curse of the Vampires (1966)
April 24: Puke! — Pick a movie that had a barf bag given away during its theatrical run! Here’s a list. Gerardo de Leon made The Mad Doctor of Blood Island and Brides of Blood, so we should watch any movie he ever chose to direct. This time, he tells us about Eduardo (Eddie Garcia) and his sister […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Massacre of Pleasure (1966)
Made in Germany as Mädchenhandel lohnt sich nicht, this is a black-and-white dive into the gutter that feels like it was filmed in the shadow of a rainy alleyway. We’ve got a plot that would make a grindhouse theater owner weep with joy: shady characters luring women to parties, drugging them and peddling them off for […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 17: Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966)
April 17: Fake Bat Appreciation Day —Watch a movie with a fake bat in it. It’s Fake Bat Appreciation Day, a holiday I just made up to celebrate the kind of cinema where the strings are visible, the wings are made of felt and the actors have to pretend they aren’t being pelted with a […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Lord Love a Duck (1966)
If you’ve ever wondered how the sugary, surf-sprayed innocence of the Frankie and Annette era curdled into the nihilistic, neon-soaked cynicism of the 1970s, look no further than George Axelrod’s Lord Love a Duck. This isn’t just a movie. It’s a scorched-earth policy directed at the American Dream, wrapped in a high school blazer and […]
Date for a Murder (1966)
Directed by Mino Guerrini, who wrote it with Fernando Di Leo based on “Tempo di massacro” by Franco Enna, this has an American detective, Vince Dreyser (George Ardisson), as its hero. He meets up with an old friend, Walter Dempsey (Hans von Borsody), who soon goes missing. This feels as much Eurospy as giallo, but […]
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