2026 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 27: Assault On Precinct 13 (1976)
27. SITE OF PASSAGE: This single location story doesn’t leave the property lines. John Carpenter took roughly $100,000 in cold cash—an amount that wouldn’t cover the craft services budget for a modern superhero threequel—and remade Howard Hawks’s Rio Bravo as George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. He wrote the script in eight days, […]
The Watcher In the Attic (1976)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Randy Victor Ian helps cover the Japanese roman porno beat for B&S About Movies. Horror meets roman porno in director Noboru Tanaka’s The Watcher in the Attic, an adaptation of a short story written by Edogawa Ranpo AKA Edogawa Rampo, often described as “the Edgar Allan Poe of Japan” as evidenced by […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Street People (1976)
San Francisco mafia don Salvatore Francesco (Ivo Garrani) imports a massive, priceless jeweled crucifix from his hometown in Sicily as a gift for a local church. Unbeknownst to him, the hollow cross is stuffed with a fortune in pure heroin. When the shipment is violently intercepted and stolen, a furious feud erupts. And then the […]
Sybil Danning’s Adventure Video: Alien Attack (1976)
Earth’s Moon has become home to Moonbase Alpha, a bustling scientific research colony nestled securely in the crater Plato. Staffed by over 300 personnel from Earth, the base serves as the operational hub for deep-space expeditions and acts as a watchdog for massive vaults of atomic waste stored on the Moon’s far side. When magnetic […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: School Days (1976)
“She’s Hotter than Kotter … and we got her. Even the Sweathogs wouldn’t believe this class!” Released in Italy in 1976 under its original title La professoressa di scienze naturali and later hitting US screens via Cinema Shares International Distribution, School Days is a commedia sexy all’italiana film. Directed by Michele Massimo Tarantini (Massacre In […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Rulers of the City (1976)
Also known as The Big Boss, Mr. Scarface and Blood and Bullets, this was directed by Fernando Di Leo. He started his career mainly as a writer, including A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Massacre Time, Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man and many more. He co-wrote it with Peter Berling, who was often in […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Rome Armed to the Teeth (1976)
Poliziotteschi is but one of the many waves of Italian exploitation and one that takes American inspiration — Dirty Harry, The Godfather, Death Wish — and uses it to explore the Years of Lead, a time of social unrest, political upheaval, political and terrorism, rising crime and outfight mob warfare from the 1960s to 1980s. Much like the […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Revenge of the Cheerleaders (1976)
After The Cheerleaders and The Swinging Cheerleaders, where else was there to go? This feels like porn without the penetration and by that, I mean it feels like amateur porn and somehow, David Hasselhoff is in it as a character named Boner. There’s a moment where the cafeteria spaghetti is dosed with LSD and the entire school freaks […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Project: Kill (1976)
William Girdler said that Project: Kill was “…the beginning of what I can do if I’m given the opportunity. Here I’m not pinned down by cliches or lousy material. It’s the only picture I’m really proud of.” John Trevor (Leslie Nielsen) has spent six years as part of an MK-ULTRA experiment that gives American soldiers better killing […]
CULT EPICS BLU-RAY RELEASE: Wan Pipel (1976)
Before this movie, director Pim de la Parra and producer Wim Verstappen were the kings of Dutch sleaze. Operating under their legendary Scorpio Films banner, these guys were cranking out high-energy, low-budget, skin-filled exploitation flicks like Blue Movie and Frank and Eva. They knew how to put butts in seats. But then, after Suriname gained […]
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