Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: The Lustful Turk (1967)
Week 7 (Aug 2 – 8) – Muscle Distribution Catalog Muscle Distribution is an exciting new venture that’s hard to sum up with words alone, but if you dig into the catalog, you find a shape that’s more well-defined than any mission statement. Liz is keeping it hot for us. From Muscle’s website: Muscle is a new film distribution […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Sex Cycle (1967)
The bohemian suburban enclave centers around the Cocoa Poodle bar — a real-life bar, if the credits are to be believed — which is a neighborhood hangout for eccentric artists, low-level gangsters and drifters. Janet (Joanna Mills) is a rather unassuming model who harbors an intense jealousy toward her mentor, an artist named Tanya (Irene […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Riot On Sunset Strip (1967)
Filmed and released within four months of the late-1966 Sunset Strip curfew riots, this American-International Pictures film was directed by Arthur Dreifuss and written by Orville H. Hampton. It even has its own song, “Riot on Sunset Strip”, written by Tony Valentino and John Fleck of the Standells. It has some of the same cast […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Point Blank (1967)
Yeah, Lee Marvin might be the coolest person to ever live. And Point Blank? This film has more swagger in its first five minutes than most modern action movies have all put together. Marvin was in London filming The Dirty Dozen, but already had his sights set on his next move: an adaptation of Donald Westlake’s […]
JUNESPLOITATION: A Public Cemetery Under the Moon (1967)
DAY 6: South Korea! Wol-ha: The Ghost of the Moon is part of the gwi-sin (ghost) subgenre. The story hits all the classic beats of Joseon-era gothic melodrama: we’ve got Wol-ha, a kisaeng (that’s a Korean geisha) who thinks she’s found a way out of the grind. She didn’t intend to go into this life […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: My Body Hungers (1967)
Can director and writer Joe Sarno do a title or what? The story begins with Marcia (Tamara Glynn), a young woman from the country, hitchhiking her way to the city. She isn’t the typical wide-eyed waif; she is acutely aware of the power of her appearance. When a driver picks her up, she essentially trades […]
CULTPIX MONTH: The Gruesome Twosome (1967)
Mrs. Pringle (Elizabeth Davis) is a delightful old biddy who runs a wig shop. She’s quirky, she’s eccentric, and she has a bit of a supply chain issue. You see, synthetic hair is for amateurs. Mrs. Pringle only deals in the real deal. Enter her son, Rodney (Chris Martell). Rodney is… well, Rodney is a […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Hells Angels On Wheels (1967)
Directed by Richard Rush (The Stunt Man) and written by R. Wright Campbell, this is the tale of Poet (Jack Nicholson), a gas station attendant with a short fuse and a soul-crushing job. When a run-in with the notorious Hells Angels leaves his bike damaged, Poet doesn’t cower. Instead, he demands restitution. This display of […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Glory Stompers (1967)
The Black Souls are led by Chino (an absolutely berserk Dennis Hopper), and the Glory Stompers are led by Darryl (Jody McCrea). Chino jumps him and nearly kills Darryl, then steals his girl, Chris (Chris Noel, who has a wild life story. Starting as a model in her teens, she was painted by pin-up artist […]
EUREKA BOX SET: Furious Swords and Fantastic Warriors: Trail of the Broken Blade (1967)
Li Yueh (Jimmy Wang Yu) gets revenge on the man who killed his father. That killer? A high-ranking official, who gets a price on his head and needs him to go into hiding. He doesn’t even tell his girlfriend, Liu (Ping Chin), that he’s disappearing. Later, she meets Fang Chun-chao, a swordsman who defends her […]
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