WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Undertaker and His Pals (1967)
Directed by T.L.P. Swicegood—he also wrote Escape from Hell Island, and his name sounds like a lawyer you’d consult when you have a workers’ comp case — this 60-minute oddity opens with three guys in motorcycle helmets picking a name out of a phone book, heading over to a woman’s apartment, carving off her legs […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Trip (1967)
Directed by Roger Corman, written by Jack Nicholson and released by American-International Pictures, The Trip cost $100,000 to make and brought in $6 million dollars. Hollywood was listening, because within the next year, movies for the love generation were all over the place*. In fact, seven years after this movie, AIP’s Samuel Z. Arkoff said, […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Theater of Death (1967)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Theater of Death was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, October 9, 1976 at 11:30 p.m. and Saturday, June 2, 1979 at 1:00 a.m. Theatre of Death (also released in the States under the wonderfully trashy title Blood Fiend) isn’t a Hammer picture. It was produced by London Independent Producers, distributed in the US […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Teenage Mother (1967)
The film that dares to explain what most parents can’t… SEE life begin! SEE the actual birth of a baby! Some movies I can’t wait to watch. And then there are others that I keep from watching, waiting for the right moment so that they achieve maximum viewing velocity and impact. For years I’ve been […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: The Bandits (1967)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Bandits was on the CBS Late Movie on September 10, 1986, May 5, 1987 and January 21, 1988. Robert Conrad co-wrote and co-directed this movie with director Alfredo Zacarías (Demonoid) and writer Edward Di Lorenzo (Lady Frankenstein). Yes, that’s an odd group to make a movie, but Conrad had already been to Mexico once before to […]
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 […]
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