WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Eugenie (1970)
An adaptation and modern-day update of Marquis de Sade’s Philosophy in the Bedroom, this was the second de Sade film made by Jess Franco*, but by no means the last. In fact, it’s not even the previous movie, called Eugenie, that he would make. While this one is Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion (or De […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Equinox (1970)
Also known as The Equinox … A Journey into the Supernatural and The Beast, this movie was directed by Jack Woods and Dennis Muren. It started as a $6500 film that Muren made with his friends Dave Allen, Jim Danforth and Mark McGee while he was in business classes at Pasadena City College. Strangely enough, Ed […]
UNSUNG HORRORS HORROR GIVES BACK 2025: The Body Beneath (1970)
Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year, they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which works to save the lives of cats and dogs across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Adam Hursey is a pharmacist specializing in health informatics […]
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama 2025: Mark of the Devil (1970)
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre, September 19 and 20, 2025. Two big nights with four feature films each night include: Friday, September 19: Mark of the Devil, The Sentinel, The Devil’s Rain and Devil Times Five September 20: The Omega Man, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the Grindhouse Releasing […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Darker Than Amber (1970)
Travis McGee was created by John D. MacDonald and is neither a police officer nor a private investigator. He claims to be a “salvage consultant” who reclaims others’ property for a fee of 50 percent. He lives on a 52-foot houseboat, The Busted Flush, named for a thirty-hour poker game in which he won the […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Beneath the Planet of the Apes was on USA Up All Night on November 19, 1993 and March 22, 1996. Nothing succeeds like, well, success. After Planet of the Apes, producers considered several treatments before finally hiring Paul Dehn to write the movie, making him the primary writer for the films. They didn’t use the […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Directed and written by Ossie Davis, based on the book by Chester Himes, Cotton Comes to Harlem is an early blaxploitation film. It starts big and bold, as Deke “Reverend” O’Malley (Calvin Lockhart) is raising money for a ship to sail black people back to Africa when armed and masked men attack, stealing the cash. This […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Cool It Carol (1970)
According to the opening credits, “this story is true, but actual names and places are fictitious.” That’s because Pete Walker read a story in the tabloid News of the World and got inspired. And unlike movies of this era like Permissive and More, the degenerate lifestyle he envisioned wasn’t tragic. Joe (Robin Askwith, the Confessions of… series) and Carol […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Clegg (1970)
Also known as The Bullet Machine, Clegg Private Eye and Harry and the Hookers, Clegg was directed by one of my favorite British scum directors, Lindsay Shonteff, the same man who brought us Devil Doll, The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World, License to Kill, The Fast Kill, The Million Eyes of Sumuru, Night, After Night, […]
MILL CREEK BLU-RAY BOX SET: Bewitched The Complete Series
Bewitched aired throughout the most tumultuous time in modern history — hyperbole, that could also be today, but true, as rehearsals for this show’s first episode were on the day Kennedy was shot and the episode “I Confess” was interuppted by Martin Luther King Jr.’s death — from September 17, 1964, to March 25, 1972. […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.