CBS LATE MOVIE: Moon Zero Two (1970)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Moon Zero Two was on the CBS Late Movie on January 26, 1973 and June 7, 1974. Hammer does science fiction! Directed by Roy Ward Baker and written by Michael Carreras, this promised that there would be moon colonies by 2021. Millionaire J.J. Hubbard (Warren Mitchel) wants space explorer Bill Kemp (James Olson) to capture […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Cauliflower Cupids (1970)
July 14-20 Vanity Project Week: “…it might be said that the specific remedy for vanity is laughter, and that the one failing that is essentially laughter is vanity.” Are these products of passionate and industrious independent filmmakers OR outrageous glimpses into the inner workings of self-obsessed maniacs?? Also known as The Godfather and the Lady and Six Champions […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: They Call Me Trinity (1970)
EDITOR’S NOTE: They Call Me Trinity was on the CBS Late Movie on December 23, 1976.. The Spaghetti Western Database is my guide when I watch these movies and they say this about They Call Me Trinity: “…often described as the film that destroyed the spaghetti western and saved the Italian movie industry. In Italy, the movie even […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: The Priest’s Wife (1970)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Priest’s Wife was on the CBS Late Movie on February 21 and November 14, 1972 and October 22, 1973. Directed by the master of commedia all’italiana, Dino Risi (Operazione San Gennaro, Fantasma d’amore), who wrote the script with Ruggero Maccari and Bernardino Zapponi, this film pairs Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni as Valeria Billi and […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Multiple Maniacs (1970)
June 30- July 6 Puke Week!: Throwing up isn’t very funny, but making your internet friends watch a puke movie is! The Cavalcade of Perversion is run by Lady Divine (Divine) and Mr. David (David Lochary) and it has everything you’d want to see when it comes to getting grossed out, like a Puke Eater. […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Body Beneath (1970)
Making his way to England instead of Staten Island, Andy Milligan created a vampire movie in which Rev. Alexander Algernon Ford (Gavin Reed) has an entire family of vampires — a wife who doesn’t speak, three green-skinned vampire women and a hunchback named Spool — living in Carfax Abbey. Inbreeding is destroying this vampiric brood, […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Bloodthirsty Butchers (1970)
Released as a double feature with Torture Dungeon, Bloodthirsty Butchers finds Andy Milligan making another one of the classics. Sweeney Todd, to be exact. Sweeney Todd (John Miranda) and Maggie Lovett (Jane Hilary) come together to kill off their customers, steal their money and valuables, and give the bodies to Tobias Ragg (Berwick Kaler) for disposal. After […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Black Angels (1970)
Satan’s Serpents and The Choppers are happy to coexist, but the cops start pushing racial tensions between them in the hopes that the two biker gangs will wipe one another off the face of the planet. Any wars these gangs had before this were about turf, not the color of their skin. But Lt. Harper […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Aside from Mario Bava’s influential films, such as Blood and Black Lace, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, no other movie has left as indelible a mark on the Giallo genre as Dario Argento’s 1970 directorial debut. Before this, Argento was a journalist who contributed to the screenplay of Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Bigfoot (1970)
Anthony Cardoza produced some really interesting films. You may call them turkeys. You may also call them…well, you wouldn’t call them works of art. But hey, his movies live on, like The Beast of Yucca Flats, The Hellcats and today’s film, Bigfoot. Jasper B. Hawks (John Carradine!) and Elmer Briggs (John Mitchum, brother of Robert and the writer of the […]
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