RADIANCE FILMS BOX SET RELEASE: Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories: The Snow Woman (1968)
An expanded adaptation of the Yuki-onna short story from the 1904 collection Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn, The Snow Woman was released in the U.S. — with subtitles — in 1969 under the title Snow Ghost. A similar story also is in the movie Kwaidan. Director Tokuzo Tanaka directed many of Zatochi movies […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Space Thing (1968)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! James Granilla (Steve Vincent) just wants to read his science fiction magazines in bed until his wife Marge (Bambi Allen, who is in everything from Day of the Nightmare to the title role in Miss Nymphet’s Zap-In and Terror […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The Hooked Generation (1968) and The Psychedelic Priest (1971)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! The Hooked Generation (1968): The films that William Grefé made in Florida feel sweaty and messy and filled with menace, just like the Sunshine State itself, the kind of place that could give you both the Happiest Place on Earth and […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Behind Locked Doors (1968)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Also known as Any Body…Any Way, this movie was exactly what I wanted it to be: fucking weird. When Terry Wilson (Joyce Danner) and Ann Henderson (Eve Reeves) go to the middle of nowhere for a barn party, Ann is […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Mantis In Lace (1968)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Oh Harry Novak just seeing your name makes me realize that I am about to see something incredibly scum-sodden. You have such a fancy signature and make movies filled with such pulchritude. Let’s all have a moment to think […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield (1968)
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: Confessions of a Psycho Cat (1968)
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 […]
CANNON MONTH 3: The Muthers (1968)
EDITOR’S NOTE: As the journey through Cannon continues, this week we’re exploring the films of 21st Century Film Corporation, which would be the company that Menahem Golan would take over after Cannon. Formed by Tom Ward and Art Schweitzer in 1971 (or 1976, there are some disputed expert opinions), 21st Century had a great logo and […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Jennie: Wife/Child (1968)
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. Jennie (Beverly Lunsford) is […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: A Thousand Pleasures (1968)
Findlay Week (August 18 – 24) Husband and wife Michael and Roberta Findlay made mean-spirited films. They collaborated on films like Take Me Naked, The Ultimate Degenerate, and the notorious Flesh Trilogy, plus they actually looked like criminals – walking mug shots! You expect to see them glowering on the cover of one of those […]
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