WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Summertime Killer (1972)
The Summertime Killer (also known as Target Removed) starts hot. A young boy watches in horror as four ruthless mobsters brutally beat his father to death. Fast forward twenty years, and that little boy is Raymond Sullivan Castor (Christopher Mitchum), all grown up and running a cold, calculated campaign of retribution. He’s already systematically eliminated […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Fear Is the Key (1972)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Fear Is the Key was on the CBS Late Movie on August 12, 1981 and June 30, 1982. John Talbot (Barry Newman, Vanishing Point) shows up in a small Louisiana town and nearly immediately starts a fight with some cops, goes to jail and it’s soon discovered that he is wanted for killing a policeman […]
Night of the Felines (1972)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Randy Victor Ian helps cover the Japanese roman porno beat for B&S About Movies. You know you’re in for a roman porno that has more lighthearted moments than usual when the opening scene involves oversized sausages on a pile of spaghetti. Don’t get too comfortable, though, as director Noboru Tanaka’s Night of the […]
Miss Leslie’s Dolls (1972)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This originally ran in Drive-In Asylum #26, which you can buy on Etsy. Nothing is ever truly lost. For example, Miss Leslie’s Dolls, a movie that opened in Pensacola, Florida on December 19, 1972 and played in Fort Walton Beach on March 3, 1973 and the Ft. Pierce Drive-In Theater, the home drive-in […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: The Screaming Tiger (1972)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Screaming Tiger was on USA Up All Night on August 3, 1990, as Wang Yu, King of Boxing. Also known as Ten Fingers of Steel and Screaming Ninja — there are no ninjas — this follows Ma Tai-Yung (Jimmy Wang Yu) as he travels to Japan. He isn’t there for the scenery. He’s there because a […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! (1972)
Andy Milligan was a maniac who made movies filled with maniacs. By all reports, he was in the same constant bad mood as nearly every one of his characters, just as willing as them to start screaming no matter what, no matter when. This may have been because he inherited the same bipolar disorder or […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Queen Boxer (1972)
THE NEWEST LOOK. THE OLDEST LAW. An eye for an eye…WARNING!! Due to the constant action/violence depicted in this picture, the producer requests that persons under 17 be accompanied by an adult. Watch out for Judy Lee. She will rip your eyes out !! Yes, grindhouse posters in the U.S. went nuts for Queen Boxer, also […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Prison Girls 3D (1972)
Before Tom DeSimone became the guy who gave us the sleaze-pop masterpiece Hell Night, the iconic Reform School Girls and the Linda Blair-led Savage Streets, he made what the poster called “The First Real Adult Film in 3D!” Let’s be honest: this is softcore. It’s the kind of movie you could maybe sit through with […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Prime Cut (1972)
Lee Marvin—the man who makes granite look like playdough—goes to Kansas to turn a meatpacking plant into a graveyard in Michael Ritchie’s Prime Cut. Marvin plays Nick Devlin, a Chicago mob enforcer sent to Kansas City to collect a $500,000 debt from Mary Ann (Gene Hackman). Mary Ann isn’t just running a wholesale meatpacking plant; […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Piranha, Piranha (1972)
Piranha, Piranha isn’t the Joe Dante creature-feature you’re likely thinking of, but rather a sweaty, low-budget Venezuelan adventure. Wildlife photographers Art (Tom Simcox) and his sister Terry (Ahna Capri, Enter the Dragon) head into the Amazon, presumably to capture some stunning shots of nature. They hire Jim Pendrake (Peter Brown), an American guide who presumably […]
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